Is There a Philosophy of Hypocrisy?

by Victor Davis Hanson Here are a few things that I think don’t quite compute. 1) The now familiar Palin/Edwards dichotomy. John McCain was damned for picking Sarah Palin who had not finished her first term as governor, and had previously only been elected to local political offices and served on a state commission. Her […]

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America the Ungovernable?

In the latter days of the Carter presidency, it became fashionable to say that the office had become unmanageable and was simply too big for one man. Some suggested a single, six-year presidential term. The president’s own White House counsel suggested abolishing the separation of powers and going to a more parliamentary system of unitary […]

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Obama Administration Did Not Consult Its Own Homeland Security Secretary Before Deciding to Try KSM in NYC

By Penny Starr, Senior Staff Writer   Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told a Senate Homeland Security committee hearing on Wednesday that she has not been consulted and has not met with Obama administration officials about trying terror suspects on U.S. soil. (CNSNews.com/Penny Starr) (CNSNews.com) – At a hearing of the Senate Homeland Security Committee […]

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Why the jobs aren’t coming back

Posted by Erick Erickson The Politico has an interesting story about Toyota up. It seems the company does not much care for this administration. Internal Toyota documents derided the Obama administration and Democratic Congress as “activist” and “not industry friendly,” a revelation that comes days before the giant automaker’s top executives testify on Capitol Hill […]

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Romney to Obama: Stop Blaming Others for Failure

By Fred Lucas, Staff Writer Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (CNSNews.com/Penny Starr) Washington (CNSNews.com) – Saying that America is not better off than it was $1.8 trillion ago, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney said President Obama should stop blaming his predecessor and the American people for high unemployment and growing deficit and failure of the […]

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Should We Believe Rashad Hussain?

by Daniel Pipes February 17, 2010 Cross-posted from National Review Online Rashad Hussain, Barack Obama’s special envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference, has run into a problem: He appears to be an Islamist. The evidence largely concerns a public statement he made six years ago, as Josh Gerstein reports in Politico:  Hussain, now […]

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