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Monday, February 8, 2010
Sunday, February 7, 2010
Holder's Premature Mirandization of Suspect
Republicans have been hitting the Obama administration for Attorney General Eric Holder's too-quick decision to Mirandize accused Christmas bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab after a mere 50 minutes of what has been described as valuable interrogation. After the Miranda moment, the would-be bomber clammed up.
Saturday, February 6, 2010
Defending 'Pitchfork Ben's' Curious Legacy
The New York Times, the Washington Post, and the rest of all the right thinking (which is to say left doing) world, is in high dudgeon. They are inflamed over the U.S. Supreme Court’s striking down major portions of the McCain-Feingold Act in the Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission case. President Obama took the unprecedented step of confronting the Supreme Court about this ruling during his State of the Union Address last week. The President’s characterization of the Court’s ruling was way off base.
Friday, February 5, 2010
The Betrayals of a Community Organizer
WASHINGTON -- Former community organizer Barack Obama once seemed to recognize the important role of community institutions. It was among his few credible claims to ideological outreach. On the eve of his inauguration, cameras in tow, Obama took a paint roller to the walls of a D.C. homeless shelter. He retained the White House office that promotes community and faith-based charities. In June, during a speech saluting nonprofits, he said, "Solutions to America's challenges are being developed every day at the grass roots. And government shouldn't be supplanting those efforts, it should be supporting those efforts." But alliteration carries little weight in the budget process (to the disappointment of speechwriters everywhere).
