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- Opinion · Dec 1, 2010The Great American Funk
year funk -- which is not surprising, as nary a national leader or news outlet has encouraged us to spit in the eye of fate and cheerfully grab the future with … hopeful than healthy, bright young college grads laid low by a shortage of great jobs. It is time for America to get over its funk and stop listening to alleged
- Opinion · Dec 1, 2010A WikiLeaks Wake-up Call
lobby.) Around the globe, diplomats, dignitaries and potentates feel betrayed and exposed. Certainly, the news that Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton ordered American diplomats at the United Nations … Germany proved, according to then-candidate Obama, that “there is no challenge too great for a world that stands as one” -- an incomprehensible claim that would earn an F from
- Opinion · Nov 26, 2010Holiday Hot Spots
uranium enrichment centrifuges and a deadly artillery barrage into South Korea swept bad news from our own southern neighbor off the front pages. Unfortunately, the drug cartels battling one another … Mexican President Felipe Calderon along our southern frontier may prove to be as great a peril to the U.S. as the erratic regime in Pyongyang. Worse, the O-Team
- Opinion · Nov 25, 2010Travel, the TSA and Teutonic Terminology
made some mistakes” is in a class by itself. But one thing they’re great at is words. They’ve got the best words, particularly for feelings of angst … gritty at airports. I was out of the country, with very limited access to news, when this controversy erupted, and I had a hard time getting a feel
- Opinion · Nov 18, 2010The Fed’s $600 Billion Bond Buy Lays an Egg Here and Abroad
expectations about inflation, deflation and future currency values.” Gold prices, as viewers of cable news ads know, have been rising to near-record levels, so inflation is what Zoellick … could fight it. He once wrote, presumably whimsically, that if deflation was a great enough threat, the Fed chairman could go up in a helicopter and throw money down into
- Opinion · Nov 17, 2010The Obama Administration in Your Pants
policies. It’s true that the enemy is willing to go to great lengths to evade detection. There is one length to which they will not go, however: converting … Here’s the good news: At least less Americans will die, because fewer of us will be on those planes in the first place. COPYRIGHT 2010 CREATORS.COM
- Opinion · Nov 17, 2010Winners and Losers
majority in the House of Representatives.” --Speaker of he House Nancy Pelosi, November 2, 2010. Her response to the Democratic defeat she did so much to ensure? Ms. Pelosi promptly … House come the next session of Congress. That’s got to be the best news Republicans have received since election night. It was Nancy Pelosi who came to symbolize
- Opinion · Nov 11, 2010The World Against Bernanke
billion in new-money printing in a news conference in India. The great Bernanke QE2 debate continues to heat up. In the run-up to the G-20 meetings, China … felt it necessary to defend the $600 billion in new-money printing in a news conference in India. Meanwhile, World Bank President Robert Zoellick has actually called for putting gold
- Opinion · Nov 5, 2010Obama Doesn’t Seek Compromise; Neither Should We
radical agenda, as painfully demonstrated in his postelection news conference. I take no great pleasure in having been correct in predicting Barack Obama’s reaction to his Tuesday “shellacking … American people’s opposition to his radical agenda, as painfully demonstrated in his postelection news conference. Unhappily, Obama’s answers showed even deeper intransigence than I had thought he would
- Opinion · Nov 5, 2010A Return to the Norm
bulls slain and fuzzy-cheeked freshmen born -- the great Republican wave of 2010 is simply a return to the norm. The tide had gone out; the tide came back … blue islands of ethnic/urban density. Or to put it numerically, the Republican wave of 2010 did little more than undo the two-stage Democratic wave of 2006-2008 in which
- Opinion · Nov 4, 2010We’re all Bigots Now!
been assuring Fox News viewers that Republicans were going to take both houses. If only some of that precious airtime had been spent interviewing the great Bill Brady, he would … liberals would be united in joy over the defeat of Dick Blumenthal. COPYRIGHT 2010 ANN COULTER DISTRIBUTED BY UNIVERSAL UCLICK
- Opinion · Nov 4, 2010Brown Won -- and Whitman Lost Big
ground, and he’s not afraid to mix it up. At his post-victory news conference Wednesday morning, Governor elect Jerry Brown showed why he won the election with … look beyond the spreadsheet. Now it may be that if Whitman had run a great campaign, she would have lost anyway. California is a solidly Democratic state. Voters here rejected
- Alexander's Column · Nov 4, 20102010 Republican Wave — Fruit of the Tea Party Revolt
reanimated the political contests of our era, yet the conventional spin from pundits and news-cycle talkingheads indicates that they have yet to realize that there is much more than … since its inception, has been plowing the fields and sowing the seed for this Great Awakening, and we have a vital and essential role to ensure that the movement remains
- Opinion · Nov 3, 2010Obama Failed To Communicate?
media friends not to build those lofty expectations on cable news conclaves and the covers of the news magazines. He accepted the adoration from every fawning journalist that bowed before … racist troglodytes who want to reinstall the Great Depression. Will it work any better in 2011 than it did in 2010? COPYRIGHT 2010 CREATORS.COM
- Opinion · Nov 2, 2010Why I Now Vote Party, Not Individual
will have to vote by party. That’s the bad news. The good news is that in almost no case is the choice between a more impressive Democrat … mediocrity would get my vote. My first concern is America’s greatness, not the candidate’s. COPYRIGHT 2010 CREATORS.COM
- Opinion · Oct 27, 2010Taking the Public Out of NPR
Growing media diversity is great, but with it comes the danger of ghettoization. If we all retreat to our respective clubhouses and simply consume the news and views that … decision to fire Juan Williams, allegedly for his comments on Fox News’ “The O’Reilly Factor” about Muslims, will only worsen this trend. For good reason, millions of conservatives
- Opinion · Oct 27, 2010NPR’s Religion Double Standard
Janet, and the boys like theirs with heavy gravy and cream puffs. It goes great with red wine.” The tag line, delivered by host Salie, was, “Now that is just … apology. If satire is “fair game” -- for only for some religions -- then consider the news reporters. During the John Roberts Supreme Court nomination in 2005, NPR’s Nina Totenberg infamously
- Opinion · Oct 26, 2010Texas and the Art of Liking Business
common sense and reality that ... I didn’t bother to read The Dallas Morning News’ recent endorsement of Democrat Bill White for governor of Texas, partly because the piece … adore the place. Went to college there. Visit when I can. Great food, great weather, great wine. And lame-brain government -- conditioned on the complaisance of the electorate
- Alexander's Column · Oct 21, 2010Third Party Conservatives: Fixers or Spoilers?
with it in principle. In practice, however, while I did not live through the Great Depression, I have learned much about its causes and consequences from those … bought), running negative ads and landing a last-minute endorsement from populist Fox News infotainer Mike Huckabee . (Chuck’s campaign manager, Chip Saltsman, ran Huckabee’s abysmal 2008 presidential
- Opinion · Oct 21, 2010Chris Coons Lied, Granny Died
whom were against her. (With the nation on the verge of another great depression -- the brunt of which, to my delight, will fall most heavily on college students -- guess what … worried about Australia’s joint naval exercises with China. (But The Weekly World News is jumping right on it!) In contrast to O’Donnell’s manifestly true point that “China