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RealClearPolitics (Free subscription) | yesterday
Barack Obama has had an exceptionally lucky first year. All newly elected U.S. presidents arrive in office hoping to avoid the unforeseen foreign-policy crises that upend their domestic agendas. In John Kennedy's first year, he stumbled into the Bay of Pigs, and the Soviets built the Berlin Wall. Lyndon Johnson landed the Gulf of Tonkin incident and China's first atomic test. Gerald Ford got the fall...
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Dinocrat (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
George Will: In May 1900, America’s 25th president, William McKinley, sent U.S. troops to China to help put down the Boxer Rebellion. America’s 33rd president, Harry Truman, waged serious war in Asia — in Korea, where Americans suffered 157,530 casualties, including 54,246 fatalities. Dwight Eisenhower vowed, during the 1952 campaign, “I shall go to Korea,” which [...]...
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Chlorinated Liberty (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
So much for that whole " fiscal responsibility thing ". FoxNews is reporting that Obama has shattered spending records for first year Presidents. I guess that's one way to build a legacy: President Obama has shattered the budget record for first-year presidents -- spending nearly double what his predecessor did when he came into office and far exceeding the first-year tabs for any other U.S....
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Fox News (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Federal spending in Obama's first year tops Bush's first year by $1T, using 2000 figures as benchmark • Health Bill Contains Costly Grant Programs • Lieberman's Stand: No Government-Run Option • Cost of Health Reform Depends on Young Americans • Poll: Obama Performance Rating Hits New Low • INTERACTIVE: President Obama's Job Approval
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Liberalguy (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
By Jack Kelly "President Obama took his massive ego and sparse historical knowledge to Asia last week. The results were so ugly even the New York Times took notice. "Obama's Pacific Trip Encounters Rough Waters," was its headline over a news analysis Thursday." "Has a president ever been less successful on a trip overseas than President Obama has on his eight day excursion...
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Zada News (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
I wince a bit when Michelle Obama chides her husband as a mere mortal ‘ comic routine that rests on the presumption that we see him as a god… But it may not be smart politics to mock him in a way that turns him from the glam JFK into the mundane Gerald Ford, toasting [...]
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FreeThoughtManifesto (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
By Nat Hentoff Newspaper Enterprise Courtesy Of The Newton Daily News In “Capture or Kill? Lawyers eye options for terrorists” (National Public Radio, Oct. 11), exceptionally alert investigative reporter Ari Shapiro said: “Many national security experts interviewed for this story agree that it has become so hard for the U.S. to detain people that in many instances, the U.S. government...
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Acton Institute PowerBlog (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
President Ronald Reagan was far from the common Republican. If anything he was the exception to the rule in a party dominated by moderates and pragmatists. It’s one of the overarching themes of Craig Shirley’s new and epic account Rendezvous with Destiny: Ronald Reagan and the Campaign That Changed America. The book follows Shirley’s masterpiece Reagan’s Revolution, a study...
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Third Base Politics (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Upon hearing that Obama's approval rating had dropped below 50 in nearly every major poll, I've read many Democrats deflect the plummeting rating by highlighting that Reagan went below even faster than Obama. Rich Galen does his part to make sure those same Democrats have something else to think about: The Gallup folks announced that Obama's approval rating has dropped below 50 percent for the first...
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Slog (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
The NYT is running an article that speaks as if the GOP has a future in this country: The trick [of regaining power], some Republicans said, is to guide populists’ energies toward an optimistic agenda built on those themes. “If we don’t take this anger and frustration, as legitimate as I believe it is, and channel it into a good, a positive, then we won’t be successful,”...
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The Aristocrats (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Lagniappe: Arlen Spector and Gerald Ford can Fuck Off.Comix, comics, comixx, comic strips, editorial cartoons, cartoons, comic books, underground comix, sa...
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Pushing Rope (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Lagniappe: Arlen Spector and Gerald Ford can Fuck Off . Comix, comics, comixx, comic strips, editorial cartoons, cartoons, comic books, underground comix, satire, parody, Republicans, political cartoons Zencomix
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The Aristocrats (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
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The Swamp (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
President Barack Obama's public approval stood at 69 percent in the days after his inauguration in January, shown above, and reached a new low of 49 percent this week in the Gallup Poll's daily tracking surveys . by Mark Silva Public approval of the job that President Barack Obama is performing has fallen below 50 percent for the first time in the Gallup Poll's daily tracking of opinion. The 49-percent...
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