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- Is Obama Losing His Mojo? - New York Post - June 29, 2009
- Last updated: 3:27 amJune 29, 2009 Posted: 2:06 amJune 29, 2009 IS Barack Obama approaching the end of his masterly run? Starting with his win in the Iowa caucuses in...
- How ObamaCare Threatens Your Health Plan - June 26, 2009
- Pres. Barack Obama knows health-care policy. Give him an hour and a half to hold forth, as ABC News obligingly did at a town-hall meeting, and he will invariably impress...
- Obama Shows Naivete on Iran - June 19, 2009
- If only the Obama administration considered motorcycle-riding thugs beating demonstrators in Iran an offense on par with Israel's West Bank settlements. Then it could...
- Obama's Health Hustle - June 16, 2009
- Where does Newt Gingrich go to get his good name back? He proposed slowing the rate of growth of Medicare and Medicaid in the mid-1990s and was clobbered by Democrats...
- Who the GOP Needs to Emulate - June 13, 2009
- IN a new Gallup Poll asking who is the national leader of the Republican Party, Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels didn't even rate an asterisk. That's unsurprising. The...
- Obama's Solution to Overspending is More Overspending - June 9, 2009
- Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner wasn't playing for yucks when he visited China last week. But when he told students at a Chinese university that China's assets in...
- Obama's Address Worked as Public Diplomacy - June 6, 2009
- BARACK Obama's election had the potential to be the nation's most consequential act of public diplomacy since the Marshall Plan. The story of his rise highlighted the...
- Obama, Incorporated - May 29, 2009
- The interlocking directorate is anathema to trustbusters and corporate watchdogs. It occurs when a board member or top executive of one company sits on the board of...
- A Bad Day for Impartiality - May 27, 2009
- It was a historic day when Pres. Barack Obama announced his nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court. No president had ever nominated a Hispanic woman....
- President Above-It-All - May 22, 2009
- Put Barack Obama in front of a teleprompter and one thing is certain - he'll make himself appear the most reasonable person in the room. Rhetorically, he is in the...
- Nancy's Nutty CIA Conspiracy Tales - May 19, 2009
- Next, Nancy Pelosi should find a way to work in the Bilderberg Group, the annual gathering of global elites that is a perennial obsession of conspiracy theorists. It's...
- O's Unlikely Mentor - May 15, 2009
- DICK Cheney is getting vindication from an unlikely source -- the very Obama administration he's bedeviling in all his TV interviews. The former vice president has dared...
- American History Did Not Begin With Obama - April 24, 2009
- THE calendar says President Obama took office in 2009, although that's only a technicality. In his own mind, Obama ascended in Year Zero, a time of ritualistic cleansing...
- 'Torture' in Context - April 21, 2009
- The debate over the just-released Justice Department memorandums on interrogation techniques ended as soon as they were dubbed the "torture memos." Forevermore, they...
- World Needs the U.S. 'Goliath' - April 14, 2009
- If every Obama-era negotiation is as clear-eyed and unsentimental as that over the fate of Capt. Richard Phillips, the nation's interests will be well-served. President...
- Government Using TARP to Take Over Business - April 10, 2009
- Even its harshest detractors have to admit that the National Security Act did what it said; TARP is one the great misnomers in U.S. government. So far, the program has...
- Obama's Non-Stop Naivete - April 7, 2009
- North Korea's diplomatic and economic strategy for two decades has been to engage in spectacular acts of international malfeasance to bully and cajole the world into...
- The Moscow Delusion - April 3, 2009
- Obama and Medvedev agreed to negotiate a new arms-control treaty and work together on a host of initiatives from the Afghan War to the Iranian nuclear program. Medvedev...
- The Outrage Test - March 17, 2009
- AIG has been the bailout from hell, dysfunctional and opaque. The government has had to restructure its rescue over and over, throwing billions more into its maw. Only...
- President Obama's 3-Step - New York Post - March 14, 2009
- Last updated: 4:39 amMarch 14, 2009 Posted: 1:25 amMarch 14, 2009 BARACK Obama has per fected a three-step maneu ver that could never even be attempted by a politician...
- Chas of Arabia - March 6, 2009
- Sure enough, Freeman is now president of the anti-Israel Middle East Policy Council, which might not exist without Saudi largesse. In a 2006 interview with a Saudi news...
- Obama's Real Agenda is Coming Into Focus - March 3, 2009
- Obama exaggerated the downside of the economy two weeks ago so he could get more spending, and now he's exaggerating its upside so he can get more spending. The fixed...
- Obama and the $1 Trillion Question - New York Post - February 25, 2009
- Goodbye to the Governator - February 20, 2009
- Schwarzenegger presided over the creation of a budget deficit worse than the one that led to his ousting of Democratic governor Gray Davis in 2003. The state has a...
- Obama's Tainted Win - February 17, 2009
- The House wrote the bill with no Republican input, and when the House and Senate met in a conference committee to hammer out differences in the bills that had passed the...
- Caution: Zombie Economy Ahead - February 13, 2009
- Members of the House Financial Services Committee flogged eight banking chief executive officers the other day, apparently without considering that some of them were...
- "I Won" Isn't Going to Close the Deal - February 6, 2009
- As far as political arguments go, "I won" has its power - provided it's made on behalf of an agenda ratified by the American electorate. But Obama didn't campaign on a...
- When Maynard Met Nancy - January 27, 2009
- The bright shining original Keynesian conception of the stimulus bill was that it would rebuild the nation's famously "crumbling" infrastructure--roads, schools, the...
- Barack Obama's Soaring Pragmatism - January 23, 2009
- Since the election, Obama has only strengthened his political position with a widely praised transition. He has appropriated the country's first Republican president,...
- The Roots of His Confidence - January 20, 2009
- What undergirds Obama's assuredness? First, there's his own talent, of which he is quite aware. According to The New Yorker magazine, he told someone he was interviewing...
- Do We Really Want Another New Deal? - January 16, 2009
- Should we want Obama to propose a quasi-militaristic program to empower business cartels to set prices, on the model of FDR's National Recovery Administration? Should he...
- Bush's Mistakes - January 13, 2009
- -- Not getting congressional buy-in on detention policy immediately after 9/11. Going to Congress would have forced more deliberation when the administration was rushing...
- Why the Regulators Always Lose - January 9, 2009
- The 2005 letter from investment maven Harry Markopolos to the SEC arguing that Madoff had to be a scammer has become justly famous. Titled "The World's Largest Hedge...
- Fiscal Follies - January 6, 2009
- That Congress will take more time, into February, to pass the bill constitutes a notable act of fiscal restraint in the Age of Obama. Otherwise, congressmen will make...
- The New Culture War - December 29, 2008
- Warren is comfortably in the American mainstream. The pastor of the Saddleback evangelical mega-church in Lake Forest, Calif., he's the author of "The Purpose Driven...
- Cronyism in an Era of Change - December 19, 2008
- If the recent Senate maneuverings are any indication, the "new politics" of the Obama Democrats is convenient cover while they take care of their own as the powerful...
- Paulson's Pliable Plan - December 16, 2008
- The books should be sent back for a rewrite. Last week, the Bush administration all but committed bailout funds to the -- in the great economist Joseph Schumpeter's...
- The Heart of Blago - December 12, 2008
- Blagojevich's greed wasn't just open and ham-fisted, it was remarkably petty -- one scheme he discussed was selling Obama's Senate seat for a mere $150,000 annual salary...
- Obama's Green FlimFlam - New York Post - December 6, 2008
- Barack the Realist - December 2, 2008
- Obama has selected a former Marine commandant close to John McCain, Gen. Jim Jones, as his national-security adviser; asked President George W. Bush's defense secretary,...