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August 6, 2017
After Six Months, a Shocking ClarityPerhaps one James Woods said it best on Twitter (@realjameswoods) over the weekend: "I've never witnessed such hatred for a man who is willing to work for free to make his beloved country a better place. It is pathological." Mr. Wood...
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July 13, 2017
Thanks to the Constitution, the left's biggest problem is the American peopleEveryone, whatever side of the political aisle you're on, needs to take a deep breath here. 1. "Collusion," contrary to what the New York Times would like to think, is a noun, not a crime. 2. "Conspiracy," an i...
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May 25, 2017
How will Britain react to its own 9/11?Watching the weenies at the U.K.'s Guardian react to the Manchester mass-casualty attack by trotting out the left's usual meme that "we must not overreact" to the latest atrocity, we may have arrived at a great clarif...
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May 11, 2017
Our ‘Cold Civil War’Angelo M. Codevilla has written an important article in the current issue of the Claremont Review of Books. The piece is generating a lot of attention. It should. Codevilla sharpens -- and amplifies -- an argument American Thinker has been making ...
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April 30, 2017
Machiavelli's Advice for Mr. Trump – and UsPerhaps the best explanation for the frustration of President Trump's first Hundred Days can be found in a not-much-read book by Niccolo Machiavelli. The great Florentine political thinker is best-known today for The Prince. But his most exten...
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April 5, 2017
Mr. Trump's – and Ambassador Haley's – OpportunityIf it had to happen, it couldn't have happened at a better time. That terrible assessment has to govern the U.S. reaction to the news yesterday that Syria's Assad regime has once again used chemical weapons against its own people. Accordin...
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January 10, 2017
The Left Means to Break This PresidentHillary Clinton's 2016 campaign against Donald Trump largely amounted to a reprise of the left's attacks on Judges Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas in the 1980s. "Borking" -- nice slang for Hillary’s "politics of pers...
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December 28, 2016
China and Russia run the boardChina’s new aircraft carrier battle group has entered the South China Sea, destination unknown. The Liaoying and her five escorting warships cleared the 90-mile strait between Taiwan and the Philippines on Monday night. Is the battle g...
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November 25, 2016
Trump Derangement Syndrome Is HereIt didn't take long, did it? While Hillary and her supporters work through the five stages of grief, leftist intellectuals are thinking and writing hard about how to undo (or, at least, prevent a repetition of) what the voters have done. In...
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November 11, 2016
Warren welcomes us to the Republic of FearAs the dark night of Fascism descends across America, Fauxcahontas yesterday addressed the barons of the AFL-CIO. She said: "This wasn’t a pretty election. In fact, it was ugly, and we should not sugarcoat the reason why. Donald...
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November 1, 2016
Don't Be Fooled: Hillarygate Probe Is Now a Formal Federal Criminal InvestigationThe NY Times and the Wall Street Journal both reported on Monday morning that an FBI warrant application to a federal judge over the weekend for permission to search Huma Abedin's emails and laptop had been granted. The application was made on th...
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October 25, 2016
The unacceptable fruit of ClintonismThe Terry McAuliffe bribery story, which broke today in the Wall Street Journal, spotlights both the reach and the modus operandi of the Clinton Machine's culture of corruption. It offers as well a perfect snapshot of the threat posed to ou...
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October 1, 2016
Here's the vital US security interest in SyriaA major objection to American involvement in Syria appears in the form of a question: “why is this our problem?” It is indeed our problem, for cold reasons of geopolitics that have nothing to do with humanitarian intervention, R2P, or ...
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September 30, 2016
Nothing can be done in Syria? Not true.With world leaders gathered in Jerusalem for the funeral of Shimon Peres, a unique opportunity presents itself for decisive action by the West to intervene in the Syrian bloodbath. First, it's simply false that nothing can be done. In...
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September 24, 2016
Samantha Power's problem from HellWhich way will Samantha Power jump? As the Obama administration's policy to end the five-way civil war in Syria – what Secretary of State John Kerry this week called the "greatest humanitarian catastrophe since World War I...
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August 26, 2016
Hillary and the culture of impunityPay to play, anyone? So far, Team Hillary's defense of what the New York Post on Wednesday called the "Dough Nation" scandal reminds me of Mark Twain's joke about the girl back in Missouri who sought to excuse her illegitima...
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March 6, 2016
Romney, Trump, and Political Self-PolicingMitt’s speech concerning the state of the campaign -- and American politics in 2016 -- has been misreported. Read it for yourself. Even if you didn’t like Romney as the GOP nominee, it asks serious questions. In particular, it spotlights ...
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August 19, 2015
Taking Cuba PersonallyA good friend just called to say that I “seem emotional” about the U.S. recognition of Castro’s Cuba on Friday. And am I okay? Well, no. Friday’s flag-raising was personal for me because, being 61, I remember the Bay of ...
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January 7, 2014
An Epiphany of a Different SortAs the New Year turned, it was striking how three ancient peoples -- the Chinese, the Persians, and the Jews -- were at the forefront of the news. As were, again, the Arabs -- the people whom the Greeks and Romans scorned as the saracenii -- the peop...
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January 2, 2014
A Striking View from Jerusalem at Year-EndQuite the most arresting take on world affairs and trends to appear in the major English-language press worldwide at year-end 2013 is a column published on December 26 by Amotz Asa-El in the Jerusalem Post. The piece is entitled "The Year A...
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December 29, 2013
Will 2014 See a Repeat of 1914?Will 2014 see a repeat of 1914? That's the provocative question asked in a penetrating essay by Oxford don Margaret MacMillan that is causing quite a stir around the world since it first appeared on the Brookings Institution's website on...
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December 15, 2013
Is the 'New Normal' the End or the Beginning for America?Writing in the on-line edition of the New Yorker, former Jimmy Carter speechwriter Hedrick Hertzberg spots an odd parallel between 2013 and 1979 which I've also been wondering about. President Carter's famous "malaise" speech (in which t...
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September 16, 2013
Obama: An American ChamberlainPresident Barack Obama has just experienced his "Mush From the Wimp" moment. That infamous March, 1980, Boston Globe headline signaled the imminent political demise of Democratic President Jimmy Carter. It followed upon the equally infamous Killer...
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January 30, 2013
Popping Obama's BalloonA harbinger, of course, is a sign of things certain to come. A trial balloon, on the other hand, only comes to pass if it's not shot out of the sky once launched. Such is politics. And so, we note with interest two obvious trial balloons floated in r...
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January 18, 2013
Obama's Goal Is to Break the Republican PartyIn the pre-9/11 movie "Independence Day," an embattled American president questions a captured alien. What, the fictional President - in full Rodney King mode - asks, do you invaders want us earthlings to do so that our two peoples can live tog...
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January 11, 2013
Did We Vote for American Retreat?I don't remember voting in November on whether the United States should resign as global hegemon and step down from being the only superpower. Do you remember that being on the ballot? President Obama seems to think so. With his announcement of his...
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January 7, 2013
Cocooning Is the Wrong Solution for ConservativesShould conservatives and persons of faith simply withdraw from the public square, live our lives, and quietly await the inevitable collapse of what the indispensible Walter Russell Mead calls Blue State America? Some people seem to think so. ...
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January 6, 2013
Stark Evidence of US, British Naval DeclineIs it actually possible that, as you read this, the United States Navy has only one supercarrier battle group at sea? Read on - and be amazed. Look no farther than these two news items, both from today's Sunday Times of London, to see the effect of t...
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December 4, 2012
Lincoln's Unflinching WordsBy now, most readers of this site will have seen Steven Spielberg's Lincoln. Each of us, doubtless, has his own opinion of the film. But all of us, doubtless, were moved by its portrayal of the courage, humanity, intelligence and sheer, rascally wil...
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September 29, 2012
Missing Christopher Hitchens"The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam." So said President of the United States Barack Obama before the General Assembly of the United Nations on Monday. Perhaps only the late columnist, writer, and polemicist Chr...
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February 25, 2012
A Gentle Reproof for Bill O'ReillyLitigation isn't poker. It's chess. You have to think three or four moves ahead. Economics is like that, too. Nothing is ever actually ceteris paribus. All the little economic variables are always moving and changing. The worl...
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February 22, 2012
Two More Journalists Have Died in SyriaWhen the news came this morning, at the beginning of Prime Minister's Questions in the British Parliament, (C-SPAN2, every Wednesday at 7 A.M., EST), that an American journalist working for the Sunday Times of London and a French photojournalist had ...
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February 20, 2012
Be Careful What You Wish for, Mr. President. You Just Might Get It.Patrick J. Buchanan's defenestration by MSNBC continues to stir comment across the blogosphere, as well as on AT's comment page. Over the weekend, our friends are PJM posted a piece by Ron Radosh on Buchanan. Radosh links to most of the commentary, i...
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February 17, 2012
MSNBC Boots BuchananIronic, isn't it, how -- just when Patrick J. Buchanan's controversial 1992 prediction of a culture war has been proven prophetically accurate by the Obama Administration's assault on religious employers -- the Prophet Buchanan himself has been silen...
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February 13, 2012
No More Evasion: Mr. Obama Chooses to 'Scare the Bear'In March, 2010, a Democrat and public intellectual named Peter Beinart noticed that President Obama and the Democrats -- then enjoying control of both Houses of Congress -- had broken with a time-tested Democratic strategy. What exercised Peter Beina...
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February 3, 2012
A Falklands War, Round II?They're at it again -- again, that is, for those of us who remember the Falklands War of 1982. British and Argentine leaders are pounding on their chests, screaming defiance over a bunch of rocks in the South Atlantic most of you have probably neve...
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January 30, 2012
MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell gets his facts wrongNormally I'd give MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell's points for honesty. Like Vermont's U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders, O'Donnell has made no bones about the fact he's a socialist. Take it or leave it, O'Donnell tells you where he's coming from. He may not b...
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January 25, 2012
Obama Dismantles American Power AbroadLast night, Barack Obama distracted the nation's attention with a rousing, campaign speech dressed up as a State of the Union address. On domestic affairs, the President's Animal Farm-like attempts at saying black is white and night is day were waste...
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January 23, 2012
Newt Brings Gaelic Fury To The GOP Race"Kit" Daugherty's fine broth of a boy just upended Republican politics. Newt Gingrich's winning streak may not last. But, until then, American voters have front row seats to enjoy something very old. Julius Caesar's troops experienced it when they la...
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January 3, 2012
Go Ahead, Mullahs. Make My Day.We may have just witnessed a Blazing Saddles Moment on the part of the Iranian mullahs' regime in Teheran. You remember: actor Cleavon Little, standing before the angry citizenry of a Western town - holding them all hostage by the simple expedient o...
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December 26, 2011
A terrible truth written in bloodThe Christmas bombings by Islamists across Northern Nigeria and the exodus of Christians from Egypt, Iraq and elsewhere carry a serious message - one which we need to hear. So far, it's getting lost in the now-all-too-routine reporting and commentary...
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December 23, 2011
One Last Lesson From Vaclav HavelAs we head into Christmas this weekend, there is an odd, but useful, juxtaposition. Over on my Facebook page, one of my local friends (a former Congressional candidate here in South Carolina who's now serving in the Army) has posted pictures of some ...
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December 16, 2011
Christopher Hitchens Is Dead. Dammit.How can a conservative commentator and an orthodox Catholic like me possibly admire Christopher Hitchens? He hated the Pope, smeared Mother Teresa viciously. He even published a book four years ago defending his militant atheism called God Is Not Gre...
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December 7, 2011
It's Official: Huffington Post Says There's a Capital StrikeWell, duh now. It took them seven months, but the Huffington Post seems to have finally caught up with AT in identifying the central problem holding back the revival of the American economy. In a piece authored by Dan Froomkin, Arianna's leftist rag ...
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December 5, 2011
Chelsea Clinton's Baggage. No, Not Them.Once a Clinton, always a Clinton. Sunday's New York Times featured, as the lead article in its Style section, a heartwarming profile of Chelsea Clinton. In particular, the piece -- obviously intended to introduce the Third Clinton to Times read...
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November 11, 2011
The Blue Wall Street BluesThis has been a rough few weeks for the Democratic narrative about what's wrong with America going into the 2012 election cycle. Basically, they've just been mugged by reality. Goodie. The Dems' narrative had the beauty of simplicity: those evil Repu...
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November 10, 2011
EU Elite Again Gives Thumbs Down to DemocracyIsn't it three strikes and you're out? Not in the European Union, it seems. Just taxation without representation. Three times, and in three countries, Europe's governing elites have now blocked attempts to submit the so-called European Project ...
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October 30, 2011
Obama Chooses American DefeatIn April, 2007, at the height of American casualties during the Surge in Iraq, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D. Nev.) famously announced "the war is lost." His remark attracted national headlines - and a big push-back from Republicans, who, in t...
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October 30, 2011
The Euro: Oh, Snap!Over the last year, AT has highlighted the transparently anti-democratic, oligarchic nature of the European Project. Now, that lack of democratic legitimacy is on display for all to see. The European Union, the European Parliament, the Brussels burea...
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October 28, 2011
What the Hell Was Rajat Gupta Thinking?A respected leader of American capitalism just scored an own goal. It couldn't come at a worse time. Conservatives know that one of the challenges we face is that every now and then, something happens which makes the left's narrative of America...
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October 16, 2011
It's a Dick Cheney WorldAfter the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in December, 1979, President Jimmy Carter told the world that it had "made a more dramatic change in my own opinion of what the Soviets' ultimate goals are than anything they've done in the previous time I'v...
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October 15, 2011
A Chance for a Second American Century?By Drudge's exclusive report, former Nixon aide, Reagan speechwriter, presidential candidate and columnist Patrick J. Buchanan Buchanan appears to be going for broke with his new blockbuster book, Suicide of a Superpower, set to launch next week. A p...
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October 13, 2011
Here's a GOP Economic Stimulus PlanThe GOP presidential candidates have been missing a great "teaching moment" at these televised debates. They did it again this week at the Bloomberg-hosted debate up at Dartmouth College. What's your specific plan to get us out of this Great Recessio...
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October 5, 2011
Fast and Furious: Let It BleedBe careful what you wish for, House Republicans, over the metastasizing Operation "Fast and Furious" scandal at the U.S. Department of Justice. You just might get it. A Special Prosecutor, I mean. That's exactly what, as we move into the 2012 electio...
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October 2, 2011
ErdoДџan and the Long Shadow of LepantoSign of the times: on September 27, according to the McClatchey newspapers, Turkey took delivery of a spanking new warship, the TCG Heybeliada. The 300-foot corvette is the first in modern times built in Turkey's own shipyards. A sister s...
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September 27, 2011
Obama's Last Groupie?The original Wonkette still gets all, um, misty for Barack. "He inspires, he believes, he rallies...", Ana Marie Cox coos in her latest column for the Guardian of London. Cox, the original Wonkette (her founding tenure...
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September 24, 2011
No More 'Sound[ing] Like Crazy People' - in Any Language"YIKES" was the headline yesterday on Bill Kristol's special editorial in the online edition of the Weekly Standard. Kristol was commenting on how the GOP presidential candidates presented themselves (and conservatism) in Thursday night's debat...
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September 21, 2011
The World After ObamaIn 1992, Francis Fukuyama predicted the End of History. What we have instead is the return of history, with a vengeance. President Obama will leave in his wake a weakened America, confronting an unstable and dangerous world. While the Wes...
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September 11, 2011
Heroism, Poetry, Faith and A Pagan EthosOn 9/11, of all days, the words carpe diem echo in the mind. "Seize the day," it's usually translated. Carpere, however, actually means "to pluck." Hence Robert Herrick's poem, "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time:" Gather ye rosebuds while y...
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August 31, 2011
The Only Thing Keeping Obama in OfficeThere was Fareed Zakaria on his program GPS last weekend banging on about the superiority of the British parliamentary system over America's presidential one. Good luck with that excuse. There's such a delicious irony in the CNN/Newsweek ...
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August 28, 2011
Gretchen Morgenson Has Just a Few Questions for Ben BernankeGretchen Morgenson of the New York Times has picked up on a Bloomberg News report which AT broke here last Tuesday. The Bloomberg story reported that, from 2008 to 2010, the Federal Reserve Board secretly lent $ 1.2 trillion to banks and other ...
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August 23, 2011
That Federal Bank Bailout in 2008 Was Bigger Than We Knew. A Lot BiggerThanks to some hard digging and a willingness to engage in litigation by Bloomberg News, we now have the benefit of their truly astonishing analysis of the scope and dimensions of the federal government's fall, 2008 bailout of the American and Europ...
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August 21, 2011
Martial Virtues and the Survival of CivilizationsIt's the Silly Season. Yet, in the midst of America's earliest presidential campaign ever, the sultry air is filled with talk of Western societal decline. And our TV screens and the Internet are filled with the reality of it. The British riots have s...
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August 12, 2011
Obama/Hillary Coming Soon to a Primary Near You?Well, it's all up to Hillary Clinton now if the Democratic Party is to survive the 2012 elections. That's what two important media outlets -- Tina Brown's Daily Beast and London's Daily Telegraph -- both reported in the same twenty-four-hour news cyc...
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August 9, 2011
Kipling - and a Chinook DownIn the wake of the terrible news Saturday that 30 American and eight Afghan troops were killed by hostile action in Afghanistan, one could have done worse than turn last weekend to the war poetry of Rudyard Kipling. Kipling (the poet laureate ...
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August 4, 2011
Will China really buy UK's mothballed aircraft carrier?It was with more than the usual tongue-in-check that AT suggested, back on April 25, that Great Britain's putting its last aircraft carrier, the HMS Ark Royal, up for sale might ultimately put that ship into the hands of the Chinese government. Now ...
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July 27, 2011
The Danger of a Weak American PresidentIt's now clear that the emperor has no clothes. By August 2, President Barack Obama could become largely irrelevant in our domestic politics. Unless Monday night's presidential address turns things around, Mr. Obama is about to be a lame duck b...
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July 23, 2011
A Moment of DangerNormally at this time, we would be well into the summer doldrums or, as it's called in Washington, the Silly Season. Not this year. Consider: In the war with jihad, American casualties are rising in Iraq as Iran is openly furnishing lethal aid to it...
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July 16, 2011
Nothing to Fear?It was in his March 1933* inaugural address that the newly sworn in 32nd president of the United States uttered historic words which seem certain to be echoed by the new president who will be sworn in on January 20, 2013. "Values," Franklin Delano Ro...
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July 3, 2011
Obama Wussed OutMark Halperin is wrong. He's not a "dick." He's a wuss, and the story of how he just wussed out has not really been told. In a series of articles and posts here beginning back on March 8, I've followed the reported movements of the ...
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June 29, 2011
Rally 'Round Melanie PhillipsIt's when you're down and out that you find out who your friends are. Take a moment, then, to consider visiting the new website of conservative Daily Mail columnist, author and blogger Melanie Phillips. Ms. Phillips just exited the Spectator's blog u...
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June 27, 2011
The Shocking Truth about What's Going on in LibyaHunted like a hound, Muammar Gaddafi just got official confirmation from a four-star American admiral of what he already knew: this bomb's for you. Career U.S. naval officers are a little like the Junkers whom German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck put ...
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June 24, 2011
Before the Surge Troops Leave Afghanistan, Do WaziristanIn 1986, in the wake of the multiple disasters of the Jimmy Carter Administration, two distinguished professors of the Presidency and of American government published a brave little book called Thinking in Time: the Uses of History for Decision Maker...
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June 21, 2011
Is Another Shoe Yet to Drop in Opinion-gate?As you've probably read or heard, President Barack Obama just got caught opinion-shopping for a government lawyer who would sign off on letting him keep America's military involvement in the NATO war in Libya going forward without having to get...
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June 15, 2011
Good Morning, MuammarThis morning, the U.S.S. George H. W. Bush and her Carrier Strike Group arrived off Libya, after a three-day visit to Naples. America's newest nuclear supercarrier joins a NATO flotilla which already includes the French nuclear supercarrier, Ch...
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June 14, 2011
What Would Lord Nelson Say?Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ ta...
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June 13, 2011
A Good Man, Slighted: Christopher Hitchens deserved a knighthood this year. He didn't get it."I couldn't find your name on the Queen's Birthday Honors List," I tootled a college friend of mine last night. "What could they be thinking back there?" My professor friend (B.A. Georgetown '74; M.A. Yale '75; Ph.D. Cambridge '84) didn't answe...
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June 10, 2011
Is Permanent Recession the New Normal?It really is a Great Recession now. You have to be around 90 to even remember an economy like this. The United States has not experienced two straight years of 9% unemployment since before the Second World War. As Amity Shales wrote in The Forg...
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June 6, 2011
David Brooks is willing to give war a chanceWith the appointment of a new executive editor, it's a time of renewal at the New York Times. Case in point: David Brooks's Friday column, "The Depravity Factor." Therein, the so-called "conservative" columnist of the Good Gray Lady announces t...
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May 31, 2011
Obama May be Getting Tough with GaddafiIt's crunch time for Moammar Gaddafi and President Obama. Will Gaddafi stay or will he go? And does President Obama intend to continue acting like the Leader of the Free World?Yes, I'm still counting the days until Barack Obama's out of o...
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May 29, 2011
Fine, lads, you can have himBack when Bill Clinton was president, Time's White House correspondent, Nina Burleigh, famously said in a 1998 interview that she was so grateful to Clinton for keeping abortion-on-demand legal that "I'd be happy to give him oral sex just ...
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May 11, 2011
New 'Great Game' Limits America's Options in PakistanHere's an inconvenient truth for those conservatives demanding robust U.S. action against Pakistan. The Paks' double-dealing -- acting as a U.S. ally in the War with Jihad while simultaneously harboring Osama bin Laden, Mullah Omar, the governi...
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May 9, 2011
The national disaster which isn't being reported.Virtually unreported by the national media - because it might detract from President Obama's victory lap over the U.S.'s successful targeted assassination of Osama bin Laden - is the greatest flood on the Mississippi River and lower parts of the Ohio...
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May 7, 2011
Canada Is Ready for Her Star TurnThe nation which Canadian subject (and conservative author, columnist and radio and TV commentator) Mark Steyn calls the "Deranged Dominion" just elected a Conservative Party government may now be about to raise its game to the next level. ...
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May 4, 2011
Finally, Once Again, America's President Is FearedHow ‘bout this guy Obama?Have you noticed? This guy kills people. In the name of the United States.Consider: the Somali pirates, targets of CIA drones in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Now Osama bin Laden.All those nice words in Cairo and Berl...
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May 2, 2011
Xinhua: 'Huge Warship on the Verge of Setting Out, Fulfilling China's 70-Year Aircraft Carrier Dream'The title is a translation of the caption for photos circulated on April 7, 2011 by Xinhua, the New China News Agency. The pictures and text were reproduced by Western media, as well as India's Daily News and Analysis website. Xinhua -- which i...
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April 29, 2011
Just in Time, Obama Changes the SubjectPresident Obama just did something only presidents can do: he changed the subject of our nation's political conversation. To his advantage, he and his handlers hope.As American Thinker was one of the first to report, on Monday -- four days ago -- the...
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April 28, 2011
Rollback? Bring It On!Back before Ronald Reagan turned the world upside down, it was considered prima facie evidence of insanity to advocate "rollback" as the appropriate Western response to the steady advance of Russian and Chinese communism around the world.Co...
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April 25, 2011
Aircraft Carrier For Sale Or RentAn article in today's London Telegraph ("HMS Ark Royal Put Up for Sale on ‘Military eBay' ") reports that UK's MoD website is offering Great Britain's just-mothballed aircraft carrier, the Ark Royal, and three Royal Navy destroy...
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April 20, 2011
An Odd Sort Of ClosureThe news this winter that Joseph Lieberman will leave the U.S. Senate in 2013, coming in the same week as the death of Sargent Shriver and the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy's inauguration as President, presented an odd sort of closure.For Liebe...
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April 20, 2011
British boots on the ground for LibyaAs the NATO intervention in Libya fails, escalation looms, triggering memories of Vietnam, and even more ancient interventions:British Troops Go To Libya Amid ‘Vietnam' Warnings- London Telegraph, 4/20/11LONDON. At least ten senior officers wil...
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April 19, 2011
Will the Euro-Elites Listen to the European Voters?Another anti-EU, anti-immigration party now stands on the verge of political power in Western Europe.In Finland's national parliamentary elections this past Sunday, the spanking-new True Finns Party came in with 19% of the popular vote. That th...
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April 11, 2011
Obama Thinks He's WinningPaul Krugman is wrong again.In this Sunday's column ("The President Is Missing," 4/10/11), Professor Krugman bewails President Obama's alleged passivity in the face of a triumphant Republican majority in the House of Representatives. ...
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March 8, 2011
'Where are My Carriers?'It was Bill Clinton who famously said that, when an international crisis breaks in some rough corner of the world, the first thing an American President does is ask where his aircraft carriers are.Did President Obama do that when things came to a boi...