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- Opinion · Mar 5, 2010Game Changer? Not in the Way Intended
With our 24/7 news cycle, we tend to rush past important events all too quickly. No sooner did we see Chilean rescue teams aiding stricken Haitians than international groups were … great day for Republicans when even John Dickinson of the liberal blog, Slate, says this: [It] wasn’t a good day for congressional Democratstrategists involved in 2010 races, fence-sitting
- Opinion · Mar 5, 2010Credit Where Credit Isn’t Due
democracy and the (partial) withdrawal of U.S. forces “could be one of the great achievements of this administration.” Initially, I ignored Biden’s comment because, well, he’s Joe Biden … inherited now wants to take credit for accomplishments it inherited. Still, it’s good news. First and foremost, it’s a sign that the war in Iraq, while costly
- Opinion · Mar 3, 2010Alice in Health Care: Part II
make comparisons between medical care in different countries. But they tend to feature news that will promote government-controlled care. One of the statistics they spin endlessly is that life … instead of clever, they would compare the things that medical science can have a great effect on-- cancer survival rates, for example. Americans have some of the highest cancer survival
- Opinion · Mar 3, 2010Women Know
down to the diner for a sandwich, I drove home to break the Big News to my wife. Like a puppy dog carrying a prize bone he’d just … eyes, and said, ‘Let’s go to the beach.’ “ Which would have been a great career move compared to the 10-year dead end he subjected himself and his family
- Opinion · Feb 26, 2010The Anti-Obama?
reluctance to subject his family to the “savagery” of presidential politics. It is great news for the country, if not for him, that he has at last relented and agreed … would release him from his promise if he asked -- if we all asked. COPYRIGHT 2010 CREATORS.COM
- Opinion · Feb 23, 2010Go West, Industry Hunters
quote this generation’s Richard Daley, “What happened in Oregon is not good news for Oregon.” The mayor of Chicago could scarcely contain his amazement at how those people … language, and one could even accuse Hizzoner of over-simplifying the message of the great economists, but he’s got the spirit of the thing right. I’d take
- Opinion · Feb 19, 2010Revisionist or Oblivious?
aircraft, or RPAs, capable of attacking our enemies half a world away. Our Fox News’ “War Stories” team is here at Holloman Air Force Base documenting how these remarkable high … very optimistic about Iraq. I mean, this could be one of the great achievements of this administration,” would be laughable but for Iranian efforts to undo the sacrifice
- Opinion · Feb 19, 2010Pick an Excuse, Any Excuse
Remember that great scene from the Oscar-robbed classic “The Blues Brothers”? Jake and Elwood (John Belushi and Dan Akroyd) are finally cornered by Jake’s former fiancée (Carrie Fisher … good news is that he recognizes his mistakes and is going to try again. White House communications director Dan Pfeiffer told the Washington Post this week that “In 2010
- Opinion · Feb 19, 2010It’s All the Tea Party’s Fault
please. This has tea bags dripping all over it. I hope teabaggers are proud!! ... Great opening day for CPAC (the Conservative Political Action Conference) isn’t it?? This guy sounds … Holocaust Museum shooter James Von Brunn’s rampage (despite his published rants against Fox News). The smear merchants, of course, are simply following Rahm Emanuel’s advice to exploit every
- Opinion · Feb 18, 2010Mutual Loathing Society
attention Palin receives, the fewer Americans consider her presidential timber. The latest Washington Post/ABC News poll shows that 71 percent of Americans -- including 52 percent of Republicans -- think … revolution, social disintegration (urban riots, rising crime) and resentment of the progressive projects of Great Society social engineers (e.g., forced busing of other people’s children). Populism
- Opinion · Feb 17, 2010McChrystal’s Afghan Offensive
McChrystal, made sure everyone in an eclectic, diverse audience knew the assault was coming. News of NATO’s impending attack in Helmand province permeated regional and international mass media … warfare has always engaged cultural and psychological dimensions. Many commentators regard Alexander the Great’s refusal to conduct a night attack on Persian forces at Gaugamela (the site is located
- Opinion · Feb 16, 2010As Long as You’re Healthy . . .
time for the Great Power in the neighborhood to act as a Great Power should when a small neighbor is stricken. Forever-plagued Haiti needs not only help but help … health comes first. Get well and then get back to making good news instead of scaring us all half to death every time the docs decide your heart needs
- Opinion · Jan 31, 2010So Much Wasted Green for Climate Change Talks
that much energy would be squandered. Now comes the sticker shock. When CBS News reporter Sharyl Attkisson dug into the latest House expenses filing for the climate confab, she found … explains why so many Americans have come to doubt global warming true believers: Their great crusade is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, yet they globe-trot to be seen with
- Opinion · Jan 21, 2010Little Guy Sends Message to Washington: Drop Dead
trounced the man who drives a truck. Unfortunately, there was no exit poll (because news organizations didn’t think this would be a seriously contested race until 10 days … wealth around” either trended Republican or stayed home. Brown’s gains were not as great in areas dominated by what the New York Times’ David Brooks called, perhaps archly
- Opinion · Jan 20, 2010Saying No to Big Government
great cultural and political battle is underway in America between people who want government to take care of them and people who want to take care of themselves. The former … former, the latter still account for the majority of Americans. A Washington Post-ABC News poll conducted last week asked more than a thousand adults this question: “Generally speaking, would
- Opinion · Jan 15, 2010Racing Downhill
without repressing a shudder? Or have we lost the ability to shudder? News item No. 2: New York has became the first state to consider reimbursing researchers who pay women … there is, it’s in little magazines and great spirits. And in that last refuge of sanity: instinctive revulsion. (c) 2010 TRIBUNE MEDIA SERVICES
- Opinion · Jan 14, 2010Harry Reid Apologizes to Blacks for ... What?
found Obama in a more magnanimous mood than the President was when -- during the Great Harvard Professor Racial Profiling Case -- he accused the Cambridge police of acting “stupidly.” Timing … there is not one player that was offended.” But still ... DeBerry held a news conference. “I realize the things I said might have been hurtful to many people,” he said
- Opinion · Jan 12, 2010Reid Punished by Liberal Preoccupation with Private Comments
Harry Reid is a left-wing ideologue who is doing serious harm to a great country. I think that Harry Reid would charge any Republican colleague with racism … public life almost as guarded as those of citizens in Communist countries. The news media have become a nonviolent form of the East German Stasi or the Soviet KGB. Just
- Opinion · Jan 10, 2010Terror in the Skies Requires Real Action on the Ground
falsehood that Counterterrorism Czar John Brennan has had to go from news show to news show offering a retraction. This bumbling effort is not exactly the type of first response … country. Indeed, as the days progress, we are beginning to see just how great a retraction was needed. American authorities knew, before he ever boarded that plane, that Umar Farouk
- Opinion · Jan 9, 2010Shocked
Remarks on Strengthening Intelligence and Aviation Security.” He took no questions. Then, in a “news blitz” that continued on and off the record for more than two hours, Homeland Security … fled to Yemen from the U.S. After noting that we have “learned a great deal about the al-Qaida affiliate in Yemen -- called al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula