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Obama: I don’t quit (0)

1/30/10 •

It was James Carville who gave us one of the most memorable lines of the 1992 presidential campaign:  It’s the economy, stupid.  Of course the economy wasn’t nearly as bad then as it is now, but Bill Clinton won when President Bush seemed to lose his way.
While I haven’t heard anyone using the line lately, [...]

A big oops (0)

1/23/10 •

Overshadowed this week by the victory of Republican Scott Brown in Massachusetts was a hearing held the next day on how the alleged Christmas Day Bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was turned over to civil courts having never been interrogated by President Obama’s new High Value Interrogation Group.
According to Director of National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair, [...]

Thuggery in Washington (0)

1/18/10 •

The video of Weekly Standard Reporter John McCormack being knocked down, jostled and blocked by a political operative in Washington affected me in an unexpected way.  I was instantly shocked and angry and ready to do battle for my fellow reporter.  In the same situation I don’t think I would have had the restraint he showed.
Take a look:

The [...]

Even I could do better? (0)

1/16/10 •

I love this poll!
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that 45% of likely U.S. voters now think a group of people selected at random from the phone book would do a better job addressing the nation’s problems than the current Congress.
And why wouldn’t it work? If no one knew who their reps would [...]