TODAY IN POLITICS: How a shutdown could happen, # What the Unions Want, and Why It’s Insane, # Shutting Down the Civil Rights Commission’s Investigation of DOJ
How a shutdown could happen
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Ex-aide’s book a harsh Palin portrait
It exposes an intense focus on image in the media.
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Thune out
By KASIE HUNT & JONATHAN MARTIN | 2/22/11 12:55 PM
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Legislature meets, gridlock continues
By MEREDITH SHINER | 2/22/11 12:43 PMIt’s back to business as usual in Wis. — sort of.
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Wis. crisis shows Obama out of touch
By JOE SCARBOROUGH | 2/22/11 11:42 AMOpinion: Recent protests give Americans a glimpse of their past and a look into their uncertain future.
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Santorum: Protesters are like addicts
By JUANA SUMMERS | 2/22/11 9:25 AMThey act “like their drug is being taken away.”
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Libya no longer on U.S.’s backburner
By ABBY PHILLIP | 2/22/11 12:31 PMLibya was a bit of a success story — not anymore.
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Video: Reagan endorses Barbour
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Poll: Whites pessimistic on economy
By JENNIFER EPSTEIN | 2/22/11 11:57 AMThey’re more negative than blacks or Hispanics, and they’re increasingly moving toward the GOP.
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Minn. poll: Trump bests Palin
By ALEXANDER BURNS | 2/22/11 11:46 AMHe prevails in Minnesota county’s GOP straw poll.
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Labor faces a moment of truth
By BEN SMITH & MAGGIE HABERMAN | 2/22/11 10:08 AMUnion officials are wringing their hands.
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Fla. GOP seeks to dismantle unions
By BEN SMITH | 2/22/11 11:05 AMA state senator’s bill would bar public employers from deducting union dues or contributions.
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Rumsfeld talks mules with Letterman
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GOP acts out revenge fantasy
By BILL SCHNEIDER | 2/22/11 10:41 AMOpinion: Their mission is to obliterate all traces of Obama and the Democratic Congress.
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Schumer raising for Wis. Dems
By BEN SMITH | 2/21/11 4:25 PMThe New York senator sends an e-mail to supporters asking for financial support.
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From Cairo to Madison, some pizza
By MEREDITH SHINER | 2/21/11 6:26 PMA message of solidarity from across the globe comes in the form of food.
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Why everyone needs unions
By NELSON LICHTENSTEIN | 2/22/11 9:03 AMOpinion: What do public workers get from unions — besides better wages and retirement benefits?
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Rush Limbaugh slams Michelle’s ribs
By JULIE MASON | 2/21/11 5:22 PM
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Barbour mulls W.H. time commitment
By JUANA SUMMERS | 2/21/11 11:33 PMHe has to have the fire in his belly, he says.
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Pol sails around TSA screening
By BEN SMITH | 2/21/11 4:34 PMAn Alaska state lawmaker has decided to boat home after refusing a pat-down at an airport.
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Heinrich ‘considering’ Senate race
By DAVID CATANESE | 2/20/11 4:51 PMHe weighs a run for Bingaman’s seat.
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2012 LIVE
RomneyCare may flatline Mitt
The health care law he enacted in Massachusetts is the defining obstacle to Romney’s W.H. aspirations.
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Obama, in Ohio: ‘I came here to listen’
Plus: The White House says the president probably won’t speak about Libya, but Clinton will.
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The Arena
‘Girlie men’ governors?
“Law enforcement pensions are at the core of the pension crisis” but exempt from budget axes.
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Christie trimming down for 2012?
Plus: Comedian Kathy Griffin is set to play a Palin-inspired character on the hit Fox show “Glee.”
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Rep. Wu apologizes for tiger photos
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Huntsman PAC hits the Web
By KASIE HUNT | 2/22/11 12:48 PMCampaign-in-waiting pushes a messaging strategy.
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Obama’s peace-process moment
By ROBERT WEXLER | 2/22/11 9:45 AMOpinion: He has a fleeting opportunity to create a climate to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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Brown: I’m not part of the tea party
By JENNIFER EPSTEIN | 2/22/11 10:17 AM“I’m a Republican, period,” he says.
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Christie: Mean’s how we do it in N.J.
By JUANA SUMMERS | 2/22/11 10:19 AMChris Christie says he’s not a nice guy.
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Crowd cheers on West for president
By MARIN COGAN | 2/22/11 9:45 AM
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‘Money bomb’ blows up Paul’s coffers
By ANDY BARR | 2/22/11 10:08 AMHe raises more than $700,000 for his PAC in 24 hours during a Presidents Day push.
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Barbour: I’d veto KKK license plate
By KASIE HUNT | 2/22/11 8:03 AMHe says he won’t sign a bill honoring a former Confederate general and Klan leader.
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Huck vs. Mitt, round two
By MAGGIE HABERMAN | 2/22/11 6:29 AMDislike of Romney could influence Huckabee.
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Cain to hit Vegas on Saturday
By JUANA SUMMERS | 2/22/11 9:15 AMThe conservative talk radio host will lunch with the Nevada Men’s Republican Club.
Public Unions and Political Power – Steven Malanga, Wall Street Journal
Starving Wisconsin’s Unions – Eugene Robinson, Washington Post
In Wisconsin, a Leadership Lesson for Obama – George Will, Milwaukee JS
An End to Soft Bigotry Against Arabs – Issandr El Amrani, The Guardian
Obama’s Problematic Mideast Messages – Caroline Glick, Jerusalem Post
Revolution and the Muslim World – George Friedman, Stratfor
Union Bonds in Wisconsin Begin to Fray – Sulzberger & Davey, NY Times
Is the Benefits Bubble Bursting? – Dennis Byrne, Chicago Tribune
What’s Really at Stake in Wisconsin & D.C. – Robert Reich, Huffington Post
Obama Is the Anti-Reagan – Ralph Peters, Family Security Matters
At Grave Risk – Bob Herbert, New York Times
Selling Off Assets a Good Option for U.S. – Niall Ferguson, Newsweek
Reckless Spending – Thomas Sowell, Investor’s Business Daily
Will Gaddafi Sabotage Oil and Sow Chaos? – Robert Baer, Time
Interview with JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon – Maria Bartiromo, USA Today
Columbia Stained by Students Jeering Vet – Bob McManus, New York Post
Daytona 500 Champ Trevor Bayne’s Race for Faith – Eric Marrapodi, CNN
More on RCP: John Thune Will Not Seek White House in 2012
Editorials
The Arab Revolt Comes to Tripoli – Financial Times
You Don’t Have to Close Government to Cut Spending – DC Examiner
New Climate Policy Will Reduce Emissions, Create Jobs – New York Times
California Needs to Think, Act Boldly – San Diego Union-Tribune
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VIDEO: POLITICO Playback
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Poll: Fewer states are solidly blue
By JENNIFER EPSTEIN | 2/22/11 10:16 AMMore than a dozen Democratic states shift to “competitive” from 2008 to 2010.
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Dems ramp up efforts in Ensign race
By MOLLY BALL | 2/22/11 8:58 AMIt’s a sign that the contest will be one of the marquee matchups for both parties.
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Corwin to run for Chris Lee’s seat
By ALEX ISENSTADT | 2/22/11 9:01 AMThe New York assemblywoman has been tapped.
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Bachmann’s in heaven in S.C
By JUANA SUMMERS | 2/21/11 8:50 PMDuring a weekend trip, Michele Bachmann called the early primary state a “GOP paradise.”
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Washington Wall: Joe Wilson
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Would McDonnell take VP? ‘Probably’
By ANDY BARR | 2/22/11 9:11 AMThe Virginia governor says he would likely accept an offer to the GOP’s vice presidential nominee.
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Kimball goes after liberal blogger
By DAVID CATANESE | 2/22/11 9:20 AMThe New Hampshire GOP chair asks the website Blue Hampshire to cut ties with her.
First, They Came for the Labor Leaders in Cuba
by A union protestor in Wisconsin was caught on camera saying he wants to vote for Castro and his clone, Che Guevara. Of course, there’s no kerfuffle from the MSM or Democratic Party.
The Facts on Wisconsin: What the Unions Want, and Why It’s Insane
by Gary Wickert
Only thirty states have such collective bargaining agreements. These are privileges, not rights, and can be taken away.
by Why Obama and the Dems Blundered in Wisconsin
by Another stunning political miscalculation. (Also read: “White House now disavowing involvement in Wisconsin protests.”)
In the Land of the Brother Leader
by Now that Qaddafi is in the fight of his life, it’s a good time to take another look at just how awful he is.
Wisconsin: What’s the Right Analogy?
by Rand Simberg
Forget comparing what’s happening in Madison right now to Greece, Egypt, Guernica, or Jutland. Think Gettysburg.
Medical fraud in Wisconsin
The government unions’ corrosive behavior now taints Wisconsin’s medical profession. Also read Charlie’s follow-up post, Naming Names, at the Tatler.
Fired Journalist Has a History of Anti-American Slanders
by Neo-Neocon
It’s not surprising that Nir Rosen felt he could get away with making offensive remarks about Lara Logan’s attack in Egypt. This time, though, he happened to have hit on a subject that was offensive to leftist sensibilities.
Wisconsin Madness as Seen by the ‘Little People’
by Phil Boehmke
No longer basking in the glow of the Green Bay Packers Super Bowl victory, my friends on the other side of the Illinois/Wisconsin border are positively beside themselves at the insane behavior of their public servants.
Happy Birthday, Dear Leader Kim Jong-Il
by Dan Miller
The synchronized dancing and swimming demonstrations were remarkable as was the evident rapture of the appreciative spectators.
Congress to NASA: Study Space! (Not Climate. That’s Not Space.)
by Art Horn
The budget battle has come to NASA, where a massive amount of money is being spent on something that has nothing to do with NASA’s mission.
The UN and the Obama Administration on the Wrong Side of History
Serving up Israel when the going gets tough is what Arab dictators and demagogues do at regular intervals. The United States should not join them. (Update: US vetoes resolution condemning settlements.)
Wisconsin: What happens next?
WI Gov. Scott Walker is facing down Obama’s personal political army, the state Democrats and the unions. As the situation unfolds, America may be meeting a real leader with the courage to face the nation’s fiscal problems. (Also read about where Wisconsin’s Democratic legislators hid out. “We now know what they call ‘Hooters’ in Scotland, apparently.”)
Photos: WI protesters call Gov. Walker a dictator, put crosshairs on his face
Union protesters turn thuggish and Democrats flee, rather than come to grips with economic reality.
Citizen Watchdogs to Aid Rep. Issa in Oversight Investigations
Every project undertaken by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform will involve citizens and activists having their say.
From San Francisco to Sarajevo
Michael Totten catches up with Stephen Schwartz, who went from being a communist in San Francisco who worked for the Cubans, to becoming a Republican who converted to Islam in the Balkans, writing books and articles for magazines like the Weekly Standard along the way.
Berkeley Votes Against Former Gitmo Detainees Moving In
The dictum that the “personal is political” is backwards: In reality when something becomes personal, it stops being political. A Guantanamo detainee living in America is political. The same detainee living next door is personal.
Stop the Presses: Shutting Down the Civil Rights Commission’s Investigation of DOJ
President Obama and Harry Reid have used their appointment powers to stop the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights’ investigation into the New Black Panther Party voter-intimidation case. (Don’t miss James Poulos’ PJTV interview with von Spakovsky and J. Christian Adams from CPAC.)
GOP Outreach to Latinos Draws Fire from Conservatives
The Hispanic Leadership Network, a new organization that seeks to build a bridge between Latinos and the center-right, is being strongly criticized by some conservatives.
Goodbye to All That — 2004-2007
Remember when Guantanamo was a gulag, renditions were the stuff of Hollywood movies, and Bush and Cheney were deemed veritable war criminals? Was it all a dream, those nightmare years of 2004-7?
Egypt’s Identity Crisis
Egypt’s future begins when Egyptians see themselves as Egyptians — not Arabs, and certainly not Islamists.
The PJTV Interviews: Ann Coulter, Rep. Allen West, Dana Loesch, faux Sarah Palin and more
PJTV delivered the most comprehensive coverage of CPAC 2011 that you will find anywhere. See all the interviews and meet all of the personalities who made up this year’s conference, only on PJTV.
Mubarak and Anti-Semitism: A Boomerang Effect?
American pundits say that the deposed Egyptian president fomented anti-Semitism in Egyptian society. But on closer examination, the charges again reveal the anti-Semitism of the opposition that toppled him.
George Soros, Nazi Obsessive
Beneath his public outrage lies an outrageous lack of conscience.
Middle East Uprisings: What Did We Expect?
The West needs to realize its mistakes and act quickly before any more surprises in the Middle East start to pose threats. (Also read Michael Totten: “North African Dominoes?”)
Video: ACU’s Suhail Khan declares that there is no Muslim Brotherhood in the United States
CPAC erupted into controversy this week over the presence of ACU board of directors member Suhail Khan. He didn’t help the matter by saying something that is provably false.
The Department of Homeland Security Wants to Friend You?
Facebook and Twitter alerts are to replace the color-coded terror alerts. Friend DHS at your own risk.
Joe Biden on the Wrong Side of Middle East History
Like it or not, George W. Bush was right and Joe Biden was wrong.
After Mubarak
One way to tell whether a regime has lost power is when its major symbols are overrun. Think Berlin Wall smashed, or Saddam’s statue toppled. But in the case of Mubarak’s resignation, the singer is gone, but the song remains. (Also read “Obama v. Mubarak” at the Tatler.)
GOProud Party Breitbart’s Proudest Hour
The party staged by Andrew Breitbart for the gay Republican group was as close to a game changer as things get and the most interesting event at CPAC by far, at least to this point.
The Spooks’ Black Thursday
James Clapper’s astonishing declarations concerning the Muslim Brotherhood are yet another reminder that our “intelligence” experts are blinded by some amazingly politically correct and demonstrably false stereotypes. (Also read Patrick Poole at the Tatler: “Obama’s worst day.”)
Rudderless in the White House
Mubarak has stepped down, and no doubt the White House will claim this is a great victory for its Egypt policy. But which Egypt policy? (Also see “Video: Gov. Tim Pawlenty addresses the unrest in Egypt” at the Tatler.)
Bombshell: Justice Department Only Selectively Complies with Freedom of Information Act (PJM Exclusive)
According to documents PJM has obtained, FOIA requests from liberals or politically connected civil rights groups are often given same day turn-around by the DOJ. But requests from conservatives or Republicans face long delays, if fulfilled at all. (And don’t miss J. Christian Adams’ PJTV interview here.)
Wisconsin: Liberals as Reactionaries
by When the chips are down, our modern liberals are overcome by their own sense of entitlement.
First, They Came for the Labor Leaders in Cuba
A union protestor in Wisconsin was caught on camera saying he wants to vote for Castro and his clone, Che Guevara. Of course, there’s no kerfuffle from the MSM or Democratic Party.
The Facts on Wisconsin: What the Unions Want, and Why It’s Insane
by Gary Wickert
Only thirty states have such collective bargaining agreements. These are privileges, not rights, and can be taken away.
Why Obama and the Dems Blundered in Wisconsin
Another stunning political miscalculation. (Also read: “White House now disavowing involvement in Wisconsin protests.”)
In the Land of the Brother Leader
Now that Qaddafi is in the fight of his life, it’s a good time to take another look at just how awful he is.
Wisconsin: What’s the Right Analogy?
by Rand Simberg
Forget comparing what’s happening in Madison right now to Greece, Egypt, Guernica, or Jutland. Think Gettysburg.
Medical fraud in Wisconsin
The government unions’ corrosive behavior now taints Wisconsin’s medical profession. Also read Charlie’s follow-up post, Naming Names, at the Tatler.
Fired Journalist Has a History of Anti-American Slanders
by Neo-Neocon
It’s not surprising that Nir Rosen felt he could get away with making offensive remarks about Lara Logan’s attack in Egypt. This time, though, he happened to have hit on a subject that was offensive to leftist sensibilities.
Wisconsin Madness as Seen by the ‘Little People’
by Phil Boehmke
No longer basking in the glow of the Green Bay Packers Super Bowl victory, my friends on the other side of the Illinois/Wisconsin border are positively beside themselves at the insane behavior of their public servants.
| THE STATES Yes, It’s About the Money 
Republican Senators vow to carry on with legislative business as Democrats hide out.
This sign is ‘PG-13.’ Many more are ‘R’ or worse.
Protesters have shouted down at least two Fox News broadcasts with chants of “tell the truth.”
Despite the union protests, the Wisconsin governor vows to keep pushing for reform.
Despite the union protests, the Wisconsin governor vows to keep pushing for reform.
Dueling protests took Madison this weekend as the Tea Party and Big Labor showed up in force.
One protesting teacher makes it personal with a message for Scott Walker.
A pro-union protester vents her rage outside the Wisconsin state capitol.
A pro-union protester shows a likeness of Wisconsin governor Scott Walker as a Nazi.
Students passionate about collective bargaining — or happy for the day off — joined the protests.
A rare counter-demonstrator, who calls himself John the Ironworker.
Unions are revolting against the ambitious reforms of Wisonsin’s new Republican governor, Scott Walker.
It’s estimated that 25,000 to 30,000 people, most protesting, were at the Wisconsin state capitol Wednesday.
Inside the Wisconsin State Capitol.
The era of civility, union style.
Walker wants state employees to contribute about 6 percent to their pension funds and 12 percent to their health-care plans.
Collective barganing has been the norm for union government employees in Wisconsin for decades, thanks to a 1971 law.
If Walker’s plan passes, home health-care workers will lose most of their collective-bargaining rights.
The opposite of the Tea Party message.
SCENES FROM THE STATE CAPITOL
If Wisconsin is about ‘rights’, then The Godfather is a movie about Italian food. Hot Blog: The Latest From Wisconsin
Manzi: Are Wis. Public Employees Underpaid? Levin: The Collective Sector Walker: ‘Time to Come Home’ THE STATES ADVERTISEMENT THE STATES
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Richard Cohen: Government pensions, an obesity epidemic. Washington Post
Steven Malanga: The showdown over public union power. Wall Street Journal
George Will: Out of Wisconsin, a lesson in leadership for Obama. Washington Post
Michael Walsh: Battle of Wisconsin: Proxy civil war. New York Post
David Brooks: Make everybody hurt. New York Times
John Bolton: How freedom’s foes exploit Arab unrest. New York Post
Abe Greenwald: Imagine Libya today with WMD. Commentary Magazine
Anne Applebaum: In the Arab world, it’s 1848 – not 1989. Washington Post
Washington Post Editors: Libya’s dictator is waging war against its own people; he must pay for atrocities. Washington Post
WSJ Editors: The U.S. and Europe should help Libyans overthrow the Gadhafi regime. Wall Street Journal
Paul Wolfowitz: The U.S. can help Libyans defeat Gadhafi. Wall Street Journal
Bret Stephens: What has happened in Bahrain is a tiny but telling shot across China’s gigantic bow. Wall Street Journal
Roger Cohen: The European Union must rethink its relations with the Muslim world at its doorstep. New York Times
Nicholas Kristof: Is this apartheid in Bahrain? New York Times
Marc A. Thiessen: Leon Panetta is correct; the U.S. should start sending terrorists to Gitmo again. Washington Post
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Kurtz: Egypt Is Worse Than You Thought Abrams: Gaddafi’s End Stalinsky: Libya: The Islamists Respond ISLAM & THE WEST NRO POLL
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Richard Brookhiser on George Washington: “He did every job that came his way, including going home once the job was done. The French poet Chateaubriand put it well: ‘Search the forests where Washington’s sword shone: What do you find there? Tombs? No — a world.’”
Richard Brookhiser on John Adams: “Smart, feisty, crazed: If John Adams’s presidency were all we had to remember him for, we wouldn’t remember him. But he led a patriot’s life, from the run-up to the Revolution to his late correspondence with his frenemy, Thomas Jefferson.”
Michael Knox Beran on Thomas Jefferson: “Lincoln said Jefferson worked out ‘the definitions and axioms of free society.’ Yet Jefferson’s belief that ‘the earth belongs in usufruct to the living’ did much harm, for it encouraged temporal provinciality.”
Richard Brookhiser on James Madison: “The Father of the Constitution, he was also the Father of Politics, helping shape the Democratic party. His presidency was 50/50. The White House burned on his watch, but he went on to win the War of 1812.”
Tevi Troy on James Monroe: “James Monroe is the least-known of our first seven presidents. He had the misfortune to preside over the Era of Good Feelings, showing that presidents who serve in times of relative quiet are often neglected by history.”
Richard Brookhiser on John Quincy Adams: “Ditto all his father John’s qualities, only more so. His great achievements were outside the White House: writing a classic statement of American foreign policy (the Monroe Doctrine), and fighting the slave power as an elderly congressman.”
Gil Troy on Andrew Jackson: “Andrew Jackson entered the White House furious, blaming his wife Rachel’s recent death on the attacks they endured during the 1828 campaign. The first western president, he was the first war hero to become president since George Washington.”
Gil Troy on Martin Van Buren: “Martin Van Buren was the George H. W. Bush of the 1800s. Like Bush in following Ronald Reagan, in following Andrew Jackson Van Buren essentially served a charismatic transformational president’s third term, only to inherit a recession.”
Larry Reed on William Henry Harrison: “Arguably the only president who did no harm. He died one month into his term from pneumonia, which he caught while delivering a two-hour inaugural address in the rain. Had he lived, ‘Tippecanoe’ would probably have been a lousy president.”
Alvin Felzenberg on John Tyler: “John Tyler was the first vice president to succeed to the presidency upon the death of a predecessor. A former Democrat, ‘His Accidency’ immediately repudiated the program on which he and Harrison campaigned. He ended his term without a party.”
John Hood on James K. Polk: “During his presidential bid in 1844, he promised to settle territorial disputes with Britain and Mexico, cut taxes, resist federal intrusion into matters best left to states or the private sector, and serve only one term. He fulfilled every promise.”
Alvin Felzenberg on Zachary Taylor: “A slaveholder, a southerner, and a strong unionist, Taylor had standing and clout in all sections of the country. Before dying in office sixteen months into his presidency, he showed himself willing to use them to avert civil war.”
Alvin Felzenberg on Millard Fillmore: “Fillmore was a ‘doughface’ — a northerner committed to advancing the policies of the ‘slave interest.’ After leaving office, Fillmore ran for president as the standard bearer of the ‘Know Nothings,’ a party particularly hostile toward Irish Catholics.”
Alvin Felzenberg on Franklin Pierce: “Weak and distracted, Pierce deferred on most matters to his secretary of war, Jefferson Davis. (Enough said.) Pierce signed the Kansas Nebraska Act, which raised the possibility of opening up territory acquired from Mexico to slavery.”
Gil Troy on James Buchanan: “A party hack, Buchanan was the ideal Democrat, a Northerner sympathetic to slaveholders and hostile to abolitionists. Beyond that, he lacked convictions and sat passively, watching impotently and flailing occasionally as the nation collapsed.”
Allen Guelzo on Abraham Lincoln: “With one pen, he freed slaves, moved armies, revived a national banking system, instituted a protective tariff, and funded a transcontinental railroad. And through it all, he exhibited the humility which distinguishes democratic leadership from monarchy.”
Allen Guelzo on Andrew Johnson: “His reckless tongue, his free passes to former Confederate leaders, and his managerial clumsiness not only wrecked the hopes of post-war Reconstruction, but stamped him with the first presidential impeachment.”
Tevi Troy on Ulysses S. Grant: “While his scandal-ridden tenure in the White House is best forgotten, his brilliant generalship during the Civil War and his compelling memoir — written as he was dying of throat cancer — were his most valuable contributions to this nation.”
Alvin Felzenberg on Rutherford B. Hayes: “Hayes took office as the beneficiary of a backroom deal that made him abandon all he had once held dear. In exchange for the presidency, Hayes promised to withdraw troops from three states that still had ‘Reconstruction’ governments.”
Tevi Troy on James Garfield: “James Garfield is best known for being assassinated by Charles Guiteau 200 days into his presidency. The fact that Guiteau was crazy augured an important 20th-century development: the insanity defense for criminals.”
John Hood on Chester A. Arthur: “Chester Alan Arthur deserves popular acclaim for several reasons. He fought against corruption in government. He bucked the Republican establishment by seeking to lower the federal tariff. He also preferred to be called ‘Chet.’ Gotta like that.”
Larry Reed on Grover Cleveland: “He supported sound money, free trade, and balanced budgets. . . . ‘Though the people may support the government,’ he opined, ‘the government should not support the people.’ And he was a Democrat!”
Alvin Felzenberg on Benjamin Harrison: “Unlike Hayes, Harrison refused to forsake black Americans. He was the first president to press for laws that would have made lynching a federal crime. On other matters, Harrison favored a moderate tariff and signed the Sherman Anti-Trust Act.”
Larry Reed on Grover Cleveland: “Our only two-term president whose terms were not consecutive, Cleveland is vastly underrated by conventional historians — perhaps because he took the federal government’s constitutional limitations seriously.”
Alvin Felzenberg on William McKinley: “A strong ‘sound money’ and high-tariff man, McKinley helped make the United States into a world power. The Spanish-American War, commenced and ended upon his own terms, proved a trial run for American participation in World War I.”
John J. Miller on Theodore Roosevelt: “Boy scientist, boxer, politician, rancher, Rough Rider, TR was neither as great as his most loyal devotees make him out to be nor as bad as his loudest critics like to imagine. He was a boisterous, incorruptible force of nature.”
Vin Cannato on William H. Taft: “Taft was the only man to ever serve as both president and chief justice. (He also began the tradition of presidents throwing out the ceremonial first pitch on baseball’s opening day.) He was a moderately successful one-term president.”
Larry Reed on Woodrow Wilson: “Perhaps the worst president, Wilson gave us the Federal Reserve, the progressive income tax, the popular election of U.S. senators, and American involvement in World War I — the most unnecessary conflict since the War of Jenkins’s Ear in 1739.”
Gil Troy on Warren G. Harding: “‘I have no trouble with my enemies,’ Harding sighed shortly before he died suddenly in 1923 as the Teapot Dome scandal boiled over, ‘it’s my damn friends that keep me pacing the floor at night.’”
Steve Hayward on Calvin Coolidge: “The last president to write his own speeches, he also read the classics in the original Greek and Latin in the evenings in the White House for relaxation.”
Burt Folsom on Herbert Hoover: “An engineer, he tinkered with the U.S. economy by passing the highest tariff in U. S. history, creating a government agency to bail out failed corporations, and increasing the top income-tax rate from 25 to 63 percent.”
Amity Shlaes on Franklin D. Roosevelt: “Today we associate both generous Social Security and strong public-sector unions with Roosevelt. But FDR deemed it ‘almost dishonest to build up an accumulated deficit for the Congress of the United States to meet in 1980.’”
Elizabeth Spalding on Harry S. Truman: “Harry Truman understood the stakes of the Cold War and fought communist aggression: aiding Greece and Turkey, rebuilding Western Europe, guiding Japan and West Germany toward liberal democracy, and defending Korea.”
Philip Henderson on Dwight D. Eisenhower: “We liked Ike for good reason. His legacy includes two balanced budgets, and the largest surplus to that point in American history. He managed the most perilous years of the Cold War by holding the Russians in check.”
Alvin Felzenberg on John F. Kennedy: “Kennedy’s greatest legacy was his ability to inspire others. When he was president, Americans believed that anything they set out to do — whether as individuals or as part of a joint enterprise — was possible.”
Linda Chavez on Lyndon B. Johnson: “Johnson used his influence in the Senate to secure passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. That law transformed the country, largely bringing to an end nearly 200 years of state-supported discrimination on the basis race.”
Chuck Colson on Richard M. Nixon: “Nixon knew he could pit the Soviets against the Chinese. And he did, undertaking secret negotiations with both Communist powers, which resulted in a strategic-arms agreement with the Soviets and the opening of relations with China.”
Philip Henderson on Gerald Ford: “He was a man of great conviction and great character. His pardon of Richard Nixon, which stirred much derisive commentary at the time, has since earned the imprimatur of the John F. Kennedy Profiles in Courage Award (2001).”
Steve Hayward on Jimmy Carter: “The only president who ever filed a UFO-sighting report with the federal government.”
Steve Hayward on Ronald Reagan: “In the 1970s, Reagan spoke of a ‘prairie fire’ of resistance to big government, and he saw the tax revolt as the match igniting the fire that swept him to office. The tea partiers might well be considered Reagan’s children.”
Roger Porter on George H. W. Bush: “He assembled an international coalition to reverse Saddam Hussein’s aggression, ended the Cold War, and unified Germany. He fashioned bipartisan legislation to advance market-based regulation and reduce deficits.”
Rich Lowry on William J. Clinton: “A canny politician with prodigious ambitions and talents, who ended up cementing the Reagan legacy. A parenthesis in Democratic politics between McGovern liberalism and Obama liberalism, but I repeat myself.”
Jay Nordlinger on George W. Bush: “Like Truman in the Cold War, Bush laid the foundation for America’s conduct in the Terror War. He discerned that U.S. security depended, in part, on other people’s freedom. He was not just an American president, but a world leader.”
Stanley Kurtz on Barack Obama: “Barack Obama was shaped by the visions of community organizing, as he himself has told us. Community organizers work incrementally, gently nudging the aspirations of others in the direction of their personal hopes. The result, over time, is substantial change.”
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Happy Birthday, Dear Leader Kim Jong-Il
by Dan Miller
The synchronized dancing and swimming demonstrations were remarkable as was the evident rapture of the appreciative spectators.
Congress to NASA: Study Space! (Not Climate. That’s Not Space.)
by Art Horn
The budget battle has come to NASA, where a massive amount of money is being spent on something that has nothing to do with NASA’s mission.
The UN and the Obama Administration on the Wrong Side of History
Serving up Israel when the going gets tough is what Arab dictators and demagogues do at regular intervals. The United States should not join them. (Update: US vetoes resolution condemning settlements.)
Wisconsin: What happens next?
WI Gov. Scott Walker is facing down Obama’s personal political army, the state Democrats and the unions. As the situation unfolds, America may be meeting a real leader with the courage to face the nation’s fiscal problems. (Also read about where Wisconsin’s Democratic legislators hid out. “We now know what they call ‘Hooters’ in Scotland, apparently.”)
Photos: WI protesters call Gov. Walker a dictator, put crosshairs on his face
Union protesters turn thuggish and Democrats flee, rather than come to grips with economic reality.
Citizen Watchdogs to Aid Rep. Issa in Oversight Investigations
Every project undertaken by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform will involve citizens and activists having their say.
From San Francisco to Sarajevo
Michael Totten catches up with Stephen Schwartz, who went from being a communist in San Francisco who worked for the Cubans, to becoming a Republican who converted to Islam in the Balkans, writing books and articles for magazines like the Weekly Standard along the way.
Berkeley Votes Against Former Gitmo Detainees Moving In
The dictum that the “personal is political” is backwards: In reality when something becomes personal, it stops being political. A Guantanamo detainee living in America is political. The same detainee living next door is personal.
Stop the Presses: Shutting Down the Civil Rights Commission’s Investigation of DOJ
President Obama and Harry Reid have used their appointment powers to stop the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights’ investigation into the New Black Panther Party voter-intimidation case. (Don’t miss James Poulos’ PJTV interview with von Spakovsky and J. Christian Adams from CPAC.)
GOP Outreach to Latinos Draws Fire from Conservatives
The Hispanic Leadership Network, a new organization that seeks to build a bridge between Latinos and the center-right, is being strongly criticized by some conservatives.
Goodbye to All That — 2004-2007
Remember when Guantanamo was a gulag, renditions were the stuff of Hollywood movies, and Bush and Cheney were deemed veritable war criminals? Was it all a dream, those nightmare years of 2004-7?
Egypt’s Identity Crisis
Egypt’s future begins when Egyptians see themselves as Egyptians — not Arabs, and certainly not Islamists.
The PJTV Interviews: Ann Coulter, Rep. Allen West, Dana Loesch, faux Sarah Palin and more
PJTV delivered the most comprehensive coverage of CPAC 2011 that you will find anywhere. See all the interviews and meet all of the personalities who made up this year’s conference, only on PJTV.
Mubarak and Anti-Semitism: A Boomerang Effect?
American pundits say that the deposed Egyptian president fomented anti-Semitism in Egyptian society. But on closer examination, the charges again reveal the anti-Semitism of the opposition that toppled him.
George Soros, Nazi Obsessive
Beneath his public outrage lies an outrageous lack of conscience.
Middle East Uprisings: What Did We Expect?
The West needs to realize its mistakes and act quickly before any more surprises in the Middle East start to pose threats. (Also read Michael Totten: “North African Dominoes?”)
Video: ACU’s Suhail Khan declares that there is no Muslim Brotherhood in the United States
CPAC erupted into controversy this week over the presence of ACU board of directors member Suhail Khan. He didn’t help the matter by saying something that is provably false.
The Department of Homeland Security Wants to Friend You?
Facebook and Twitter alerts are to replace the color-coded terror alerts. Friend DHS at your own risk.
Joe Biden on the Wrong Side of Middle East History
Like it or not, George W. Bush was right and Joe Biden was wrong.
After Mubarak
One way to tell whether a regime has lost power is when its major symbols are overrun. Think Berlin Wall smashed, or Saddam’s statue toppled. But in the case of Mubarak’s resignation, the singer is gone, but the song remains. (Also read “Obama v. Mubarak” at the Tatler.)
GOProud Party Breitbart’s Proudest Hour
The party staged by Andrew Breitbart for the gay Republican group was as close to a game changer as things get and the most interesting event at CPAC by far, at least to this point.
The Spooks’ Black Thursday
James Clapper’s astonishing declarations concerning the Muslim Brotherhood are yet another reminder that our “intelligence” experts are blinded by some amazingly politically correct and demonstrably false stereotypes. (Also read Patrick Poole at the Tatler: “Obama’s worst day.”)
Rudderless in the White House
Mubarak has stepped down, and no doubt the White House will claim this is a great victory for its Egypt policy. But which Egypt policy? (Also see “Video: Gov. Tim Pawlenty addresses the unrest in Egypt” at the Tatler.)
Bombshell: Justice Department Only Selectively Complies with Freedom of Information Act (PJM Exclusive)
According to documents PJM has obtained, FOIA requests from liberals or politically connected civil rights groups are often given same day turn-around by the DOJ. But requests from conservatives or Republicans face long delays, if fulfilled at all. (And don’t miss J. Christian Adams’ PJTV interview here.)
Wisconsin: Liberals as Reactionaries
When the chips are down, our modern liberals are overcome by their own sense of entitlement.
Twenty-Six Reasons J Street’s Demise Shouldn’t Be Mourned
by A compendium of their falsehoods, misdirections, and anti-Israel activities.
Egypt and Tunisia: Triumphs for the American Muslim Brotherhood
by Few have mentioned that what is happening throughout the Middle East is a huge boon and triumph for the Muslim Brotherhood in the United States.
Was George Washington ‘Paranoid’ Too?
by Mary Grabar
A question for Michael Medved and other “moderates.”
But That’s What Community Organizers Do
by We should cease being surprised that President Obama editorializes about extraneous issues while ignoring critical ones.
The Wisconsin Protests and the New Medical Ethics
by Paul Hsieh
The breaches of professional ethics displayed in Wisconsin may be an ominous foretaste of future problems Americans can expect under ObamaCare.
Germans to Turks to Mullahs: The Back Door
In all the excitement, it was easy to miss the fact that there were two very high level visitors to Iran late last week and then over the weekend: Turkish President Gul and German Foreign Minister Westerwelle. The sequence was not accidental.
Caught in the Act? Akbar Ahmed, the ‘Islamization of Knowledge,’ and the Muslim Brotherhood
Last year, the American University professor falsely claimed the Founders admired Islam, a statement that fits the mission of an MB-associated group he has a 30-year relationship with: Islamization of Knowledge. (Which he strangely omitted from his AU bio. Hmm.)
Rahm’s ‘Chicago Way’ Campaign for Mayor
Mr. Emanuel has all the intangibles needed to capture City Hall: he is a Democrat, has a bag full of money, and is also a close associate of President Obama.
What Are We Doing About Qaddafi’s Bloody Hands in Libya?
For Libyans to rise up against Qaddafi takes staggering courage and determination. This, Libyans are now doing, and for this they are right now being massacred. Who will help?
Watershed Moment in Wisconsin
What happens in Madison concerns not only the fate of some whining school teachers, fraud-abetting doctors, and the left-wing activists who are their enablers. It concerns the shape of this country.
The Global Insurrection
There may yet be a chance for a real democratic revolution on a global scale, even if the American president rallied to the Wisconsin trade union demonstrators a lot faster than to the Iranian freedom fighters.
What Rumsfeld Got Right
We probably shouldn’t have occupied Iraq in the first place.
‘Egypt in America’
Could Wisconsin provide an “Egypt-like moment,” in which an apparently localized incident serves as a fuse to touch off an ever-widening series of political detonations?
Iranium: A Necessary Wake-up Call on Iran
by Ryan Mauro
A new film about the Iranian regime highlights the mortal danger they represent to the U.S. and the West. (And don’t miss “POLIWOOD- Iranium: The film Ahmadinejad does not want you to see.”)
We’re Losing the Battle Against Islamism
Where is the principled leadership among Jewish and Christian clergy?
An Open Letter to Mr. Daily Kos
Dear Kos, surveying the goings-on in Wisconsin, you tweeted, “Dear Tea Baggers, It’s our turn now.” Well, now that both sides have had their turns, let’s compare and contrast.
Decline Is in the Mind
How Obama and his supporters learned to stop worrying and love the debt bomb.
David Cameron: ‘Multiculturalism Has Failed’
by John Boot
And you thought the only lesson Americans could learn from our cousins across the Atlantic was the need to cut back on government in the face of gigantic debts.
Shame, Come Back, Shame!
An era is ending, and maybe the final curtain is starting to go down in Wisconsin. (More at the Tatler: Wisconsin update: Walker sends out rangers to fetch the Chicken Dems.)
Building Oppression in ‘Palestine’
The U.S .has created a monster.
The Paranoid Style Is Alive and Well in Some Conservative Quarters
by Rick Moran
Belief in Cloward-Piven, the Saul Alinsky game plan, and Obama’s desire to destroy the country are symptoms of an irrational mindset among some on the right.
The Muslim Brotherhood’s Political Pilgrims
by Jamie Glazov
The hard left’s unsurprising romance with the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamist organizations. (Also read: It begins: Qaradawi to lead Friday prayers in Cairo at the Tatler.)
A Luckier Woman Covering Cairo
It wasn’t celebratory that night Lara Logan was attacked. It was terrifying.
A Reply to a Fearfully Concerned Muslim Friend
…from an American Jewish friend, but one who intends to ask some potentially uncomfortable questions he always wanted to address to a moderate Muslim. (Don’t miss Salim Mansur’s “Letter from a Fearfully Concerned Muslim to an American-Jewish Friend” from last week.)
When In Doubt, Slam Israel
Now we come to a moment in which the Middle East is in turmoil. What does the U.S. do? Join with the weakening despots in slamming the only democracy in the region. See also: Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s reaction at the Tatler.
Cuban Filmmaker Stonewalled in Trying to Tell the True Story of ‘Che’
by Mary Grabar
Agustin Blazquez has produced a compelling film that demolishes the radical heartthrob’s reputation as a brave guerrilla fighting on behalf of the oppressed.
The Problem with the Civility Movement
by Adam Graham
Three reasons why the push for civility in politics ultimately fails in its objective to improve the tone of political speech. (And don’t miss “The white truck was oppressive,” at the Tatler and Ed Driscoll’s “The era of new civility is over.”)
Florida’s Rick Scott Shakes Things Up
One month in, the Republican makes waves. (And don’t miss “Florida governor saves Florida taxpayers from a rail disaster,” at the Tatler.)
Obama’s Unsustainable and Gutless Budget Proposals
by Tom Blumer
The current level of federal spending can’t continue. The administration says: “Yes it can. Try and stop us.” (Also read the Tatler’s take on how likely voters view Obama’s budget.)
Can Sarah Upstage Barack?
by David Solway
Two more years of Obama is all any Republican candidate may need.
The Real Face of the Muslim Brotherhood, and the Delusions of Its Supporters
by Ron Radosh
A new group of useful idiots apologize for radical Islam the way fellow travelers used to apologize for Stalinism. (And don’t miss “Why the Muslim Brotherhood doesn’t change,” at the Tatler.)
The Limits of Obama’s Rhetoric
Where it isn’t dangerous, it’s simply impotent.
Two Climate Change Wrongs Don’t Make a Right
by Lee Lane
It’s a war of ideas both sides ought to lose. (UPDATE: Also read Bryan Preston’s blistering response to a pro-alarmism Politico editorial at the Tatler.)
Will the Muslim Brotherhood Rule Egypt?
by Ryan Mauro
A new poll hints at hope for a pro-Western future. (Also read “Terrible: CBS reporter sexually assaulted and beaten while covering Egypt’s riots” and “Latest on Logan assault: Crowd chanted ‘Jew! Jew!’” at the Tatler.)
Brother, Can You Spare an Investment?
The takeaway lesson from Obama’s proposed budget? Look before you leap into a car with a community organizer at the wheel. (Also read Richard Pollock at the Tatler: “When today means today, and when it doesn’t, at the White House.”)
Decline and Revival of Western Civilization
Amid despair, there is still hope that the West will find the anti-toxin to cure what ails us.
Military Voting Accountability Starts Today
Today, there will be testimony before Congress about the Department of Justice’s failure to protect the rights of military voters in 2010. Expect to hear two wildly different accounts of the DOJ’s behavior.
Twenty-Six Reasons J Street’s Demise Shouldn’t Be Mourned
A compendium of their falsehoods, misdirections, and anti-Israel activities.
Egypt and Tunisia: Triumphs for the American Muslim Brotherhood
Few have mentioned that what is happening throughout the Middle East is a huge boon and triumph for the Muslim Brotherhood in the United States.
Was George Washington ‘Paranoid’ Too?
by Mary Grabar
A question for Michael Medved and other “moderates.”
But That’s What Community Organizers Do
We should cease being surprised that President Obama editorializes about extraneous issues while ignoring critical ones.
The Wisconsin Protests and the New Medical Ethics
by Paul Hsieh
The breaches of professional ethics displayed in Wisconsin may be an ominous foretaste of future problems Americans can expect under ObamaCare.
Germans to Turks to Mullahs: The Back Door
In all the excitement, it was easy to miss the fact that there were two very high level visitors to Iran late last week and then over the weekend: Turkish President Gul and German Foreign Minister Westerwelle. The sequence was not accidental.
Caught in the Act? Akbar Ahmed, the ‘Islamization of Knowledge,’ and the Muslim Brotherhood
Last year, the American University professor falsely claimed the Founders admired Islam, a statement that fits the mission of an MB-associated group he has a 30-year relationship with: Islamization of Knowledge. (Which he strangely omitted from his AU bio. Hmm.)
Rahm’s ‘Chicago Way’ Campaign for Mayor
Mr. Emanuel has all the intangibles needed to capture City Hall: he is a Democrat, has a bag full of money, and is also a close associate of President Obama.
What Are We Doing About Qaddafi’s Bloody Hands in Libya?
For Libyans to rise up against Qaddafi takes staggering courage and determination. This, Libyans are now doing, and for this they are right now being massacred. Who will help?
Watershed Moment in Wisconsin
What happens in Madison concerns not only the fate of some whining school teachers, fraud-abetting doctors, and the left-wing activists who are their enablers. It concerns the shape of this country.
The Global Insurrection
There may yet be a chance for a real democratic revolution on a global scale, even if the American president rallied to the Wisconsin trade union demonstrators a lot faster than to the Iranian freedom fighters.
What Rumsfeld Got Right
We probably shouldn’t have occupied Iraq in the first place.
‘Egypt in America’
Could Wisconsin provide an “Egypt-like moment,” in which an apparently localized incident serves as a fuse to touch off an ever-widening series of political detonations?
Iranium: A Necessary Wake-up Call on Iran
by Ryan Mauro
A new film about the Iranian regime highlights the mortal danger they represent to the U.S. and the West. (And don’t miss “POLIWOOD- Iranium: The film Ahmadinejad does not want you to see.”)
We’re Losing the Battle Against Islamism
Where is the principled leadership among Jewish and Christian clergy?
An Open Letter to Mr. Daily Kos
Dear Kos, surveying the goings-on in Wisconsin, you tweeted, “Dear Tea Baggers, It’s our turn now.” Well, now that both sides have had their turns, let’s compare and contrast.
Decline Is in the Mind
How Obama and his supporters learned to stop worrying and love the debt bomb.
David Cameron: ‘Multiculturalism Has Failed’
by John Boot
And you thought the only lesson Americans could learn from our cousins across the Atlantic was the need to cut back on government in the face of gigantic debts.
Shame, Come Back, Shame!
An era is ending, and maybe the final curtain is starting to go down in Wisconsin. (More at the Tatler: Wisconsin update: Walker sends out rangers to fetch the Chicken Dems.)
Building Oppression in ‘Palestine’
The U.S .has created a monster.
The Paranoid Style Is Alive and Well in Some Conservative Quarters
by Rick Moran
Belief in Cloward-Piven, the Saul Alinsky game plan, and Obama’s desire to destroy the country are symptoms of an irrational mindset among some on the right.
The Muslim Brotherhood’s Political Pilgrims
by Jamie Glazov
The hard left’s unsurprising romance with the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamist organizations. (Also read: It begins: Qaradawi to lead Friday prayers in Cairo at the Tatler.)
A Luckier Woman Covering Cairo
It wasn’t celebratory that night Lara Logan was attacked. It was terrifying.
A Reply to a Fearfully Concerned Muslim Friend
…from an American Jewish friend, but one who intends to ask some potentially uncomfortable questions he always wanted to address to a moderate Muslim. (Don’t miss Salim Mansur’s “Letter from a Fearfully Concerned Muslim to an American-Jewish Friend” from last week.)
When In Doubt, Slam Israel
Now we come to a moment in which the Middle East is in turmoil. What does the U.S. do? Join with the weakening despots in slamming the only democracy in the region. See also: Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s reaction at the Tatler.
Cuban Filmmaker Stonewalled in Trying to Tell the True Story of ‘Che’
by Mary Grabar
Agustin Blazquez has produced a compelling film that demolishes the radical heartthrob’s reputation as a brave guerrilla fighting on behalf of the oppressed.
The Problem with the Civility Movement
by Adam Graham
Three reasons why the push for civility in politics ultimately fails in its objective to improve the tone of political speech. (And don’t miss “The white truck was oppressive,” at the Tatler and Ed Driscoll’s “The era of new civility is over.”)
Florida’s Rick Scott Shakes Things Up
One month in, the Republican makes waves. (And don’t miss “Florida governor saves Florida taxpayers from a rail disaster,” at the Tatler.)
Obama’s Unsustainable and Gutless Budget Proposals
by Tom Blumer
The current level of federal spending can’t continue. The administration says: “Yes it can. Try and stop us.” (Also read the Tatler’s take on how likely voters view Obama’s budget.)
Can Sarah Upstage Barack?
by David Solway
Two more years of Obama is all any Republican candidate may need.
The Real Face of the Muslim Brotherhood, and the Delusions of Its Supporters
by Ron Radosh
A new group of useful idiots apologize for radical Islam the way fellow travelers used to apologize for Stalinism. (And don’t miss “Why the Muslim Brotherhood doesn’t change,” at the Tatler.)
The Limits of Obama’s Rhetoric
Where it isn’t dangerous, it’s simply impotent.
Two Climate Change Wrongs Don’t Make a Right
by Lee Lane
It’s a war of ideas both sides ought to lose. (UPDATE: Also read Bryan Preston’s blistering response to a pro-alarmism Politico editorial at the Tatler.)
Will the Muslim Brotherhood Rule Egypt?
by Ryan Mauro
A new poll hints at hope for a pro-Western future. (Also read “Terrible: CBS reporter sexually assaulted and beaten while covering Egypt’s riots” and “Latest on Logan assault: Crowd chanted ‘Jew! Jew!’” at the Tatler.)
Brother, Can You Spare an Investment?
The takeaway lesson from Obama’s proposed budget? Look before you leap into a car with a community organizer at the wheel. (Also read Richard Pollock at the Tatler: “When today means today, and when it doesn’t, at the White House.”)
Decline and Revival of Western Civilization
Amid despair, there is still hope that the West will find the anti-toxin to cure what ails us.
Military Voting Accountability Starts Today
Today, there will be testimony before Congress about the Department of Justice’s failure to protect the rights of military voters in 2010. Expect to hear two wildly different accounts of the DOJ’s behavior.
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Elizabeth Warren, Assistant to the PresidentChallenges Facing President Obama’s Budget, Financial Reforms
Updated 1 hr., 56 min. ago
President Obama’s economic strategy is examined today in a number of Washington events highlighting financial reform, the President’s spending plans and the Presidential Debt Commission.
The day begins with Elizabeth Warren, Special Advisor to the Secretary of the Treasury, describing elements of the Credit CARD Act. Speaking at a forum hosted by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Ms. Warren’s keynote examined significant provisions in the act and efforts to improve the credit card market for consumers. More »
- Elizabeth Warren Addresses CFPB Audience
- President’s Budget & “Winning the Future” – video available later
- Comments from Presidential Debt Cmsn. co-chairs on C‑SPAN at 8pm ET
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President Hosts “Winning the Future” Forum in Cleveland
Updated 18 min. ago
C-SPANPresident Obama is in Cleveland, Ohio, today to promote his “Winning the Future” program. Following up on a similar event held at Portland, Oregon’s Intel Corporation on Friday, the President will deliver opening and closing remarks at this all-day forum on small business and innovative ideas for growing the economy. More »
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Ireland’s Party Leaders Meet in Final Debate Before Elections
Updated 2 hr., 15 min. ago
(AP Photo/Peter Morrison)With the election for Prime Minister only days away, the leaders of Ireland’s three major political parties will meet for the third and final debate today in Dublin. Voters heading to the polls on Friday will also determine the country’s next governing party.
Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny, who is widely expected to become the next Prime Minister, will join in tonight’s debate alongside Fianna Fail’s Micheal Martin and Labour Party leader Eamon Gilmore. More »
