Obama’s Foreign Policy Described As Pragmatic
Item: A May 6 Reuters article, detailing President Obama meeting with Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai and Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari, described the...
White House Restructures National Security
President Obama announced the merger of the Homeland Security Council with that of the National Security Council in order to make Americans safer,...
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Sotomayor: Discriminating to Not Be Discriminatory
The nomination of U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Sonia Sotomayor for the U.S. Supreme Court is bound to produce some interesting confirmation hearings....
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North Korea’s Nuclear Saber Rattling
“One day after its nuclear test drew angry and widespread condemnation, North Korea continued to defy the international community on Tuesday by test-firing...
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Notre Dame: Tragedy and Hope
At the University of Notre Dame, opposition to the granting of an honorary Doctor of Laws degree to commencement speaker Barack Obama, president...
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Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s Shadowy Thinking
There may soon be more “penumbras formed by emanations” in the invisible, unpredictable “living Constitution” if President Obama’s U.S. Supreme Court nominee, Sonia...
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Leftists in Tizzy Over Exposure of KGB Ties
The Left is in a tizzy over Izzy. More precisely, they are in a tizzy over the latest revelations exposing the late I.F....
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Obama’s IMF Sneak Attack
A hundred and eight billion dollars — $108,000,000,000. Not exactly an eye-popping sum anymore, in an era of multi-trillion-dollar annual budgets and multi-trillion-dollar...
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Keynesians and Kahnsians Populate D.C.
Neoconservatism, Pat Buchanan has written, is “the Arian heresy of the American right.” The Arians denied the humanity of Jesus, disputing the “Hypostatic...
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The American Flag
The start of a baseball game, a football game, a NASCAR race, or a rodeo is predictable: crowds turn to face the American...
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Obama, the Soldiers, and Memorial Day
In his weekly Internet and radio address on Saturday, President Barack Obama said that Memorial Day is “a time to reflect on what...
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Cap and Trade Passes House Committee
Climate-change legislation has now officially become part of Washington policymaking with the approval on May 21 by the House Energy and Commerce Committee...
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Rachel Maddow’s Critique of Obama
Left-wing MSNBC pundit Rachel Maddow has aired a surprisingly penetrating critique of President Barack Obama’s new prolonged detention, or preventive detention, policy, a...
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Cheney Defends “Enhanced” Interrogation
In a speech given on May 21 at the neoconservative American Enterprise Institute in Washington, former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney said President...
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Missing Link Coverage Goes Amiss
"Fossil Ida: extraordinary find is ‘missing link’ in human evolution," ran the Guardian headline on May 19. The media was abuzz with excitement...
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