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Last week, France qualified for the World Cup with a goal, scored in overtime, via a clearly intentional handball by French super-star Thierry Henry. The reaction to that goal fascinates me because it is quite unlike what I think the reaction would be to a comparable instance of cheating in ...
World
France
Henry Waxman
One unfortunate byproduct of President Obama's foolish attempt to make his mark on the Middle East by pressuring Israel to abandon all settlement construction is this: Obama's failure appears to have brought French President Sarkozy back onto the stage. Anxious to make his mark in international ...
World
Syria
Israel
Barack Obama
Iran
Saturday Night Live isn't the only unusual source of criticism ot President Obama's trip to China. Max Boot notes that some Democrats were less than impressed. For example, Liz Economy of the Council on Foreign Relations stated:
It was, optically, one of the worst U.S. presidential visits ...
World
China
It could be: Brett Favre's return from his second retirement to quarterback the Minnesota Vikings. Of course, that may be a parochial view. But it's been a long time since I was much of a pro football fan, and I've never really been a Vikings fan even though I live in Minnesota. For just about ...
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...I dunno, maybe Jon Stewart comes next. I don't accept the proposition that liberal comedians who aren't funny are somehow arbiters of popular culture, let alone public policy. Still, the fact that Obama's actual policies (not his failure to be a liberal messiah) were lampooned in this ...
White House
Barack Obama
Jon Stewart
Barack Obama's narcissism has frequently been commented upon, but Glenn Reynolds makes an interesting and potentially important observation:
I think Obama's "charisma" was based on voter narcissism -- people excited not just about electing a black President, but about themselves, voting ...
White House
Barack Obama
Glenn Reynolds
Venezuela is sponsoring an international conference of socialist parties in Caracas, which it pretentiously labels the Fifth International. Socialists from 40 countries, representing 50 political parties, are attending. On Friday, Hugo Chavez addressed the conclave . He praised Carlos the ...
World
Barack Obama
Hugo Chávez
Honduras
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his confederates are gearing up for a media spectacle:
A lawyer for one of five men facing trial for the Sept. 11 attacks says the men plan to plead not guilty and use the trial to express their political views. Attorney Scott Fenstermaker says his client Ali ...
Law
Guantanamo Bay
9/11
Eric Holder
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Dexter Filkins reports from Afghanistan that "American and
Afghan officials have begun helping a number of anti-Taliban
militias that have independently taken up arms against insurgents in several parts of Afghanistan, prompting hopes of a ...
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An awakening in Afghanistan?
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Mary Landrieu announced today that she will vote for cloture on the Democrats' government medicine bill tonight. The Democrats now have 60 votes and will be able to pass their version of government medicine.
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One of the hacked East Anglia emails that
has gotten considerable play on the web indicates that
several alarmist scientists deleted emails that were subject to a Freedom of Information Act request rather than produce them. That's true; here is the ...
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When In Doubt, Delete
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A fascinating, hot-off-the-presses story emerges from the emails
that were hacked yesterday from the University of East
Anglia's Hadley Climatic Research Centre. It is one of many exchanges that shed light on the priority that the global warming ...
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The Alarmists Do "Science": A Case Study
We've noted the Obama administration's penchant for bullying America's allies and kowtowing to its adversaries. This Washington Post story presents another case-in-point -- our treatment of Afghan President Hamid Karzai. As Afghan presidents go, Karzai makes a good mayor of Kabul (in a bad ...
White House
Barack Obama
Afghanistan
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The biggest news story of the day is
one that has barely begun to break and will
continue to reverberate for months or years to come. Someone hacked into a computer at the University of East Anglia's Hadley Climatic Research Centre, one of the main ...
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Global Warming Bombshell
Even congressional Democrats are disgusted with the Obama administration's phony accounting of what the stimulus plan supposedly is accomplishing. Earlier this week, House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey lambasted the government's flawed data purporting to show that $160 billion in ...
White House
Barack Obama
There's a stock column appearing in left-liberal MSM outlets all over the country, The author varies, but the main point is the same: Republican Senators are guilty of "hypocrisy" for attempting to filibuster one of President Obama's judicial nominees after having criticized Democrats for ...
Other
Washington Post
Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner appeared before the Joint Economic Committee today. One striking feature of Geithner's testimony was how partisan it was. In keeping with the Obama administration's mantra, he repeatedly tried to cast blame on the Bush administration while failing to acknowledge ...
White House
Timothy Geithner
We noted last night that under the Obama administration's law-enforcement approach to terrorism, if we capture Osama bin Laden the first things we'll have to do are read him his rights and get him a free lawyer. When Lindsay Graham pointed this out to Eric Holder in yesterday's Senate Judiciary ...
White House
Eric Holder
Barack Obama
Patrick Leahy
Responding to Sen. Lindsey Graham's concern that under administration policy we might have to "Mirandize" Osama bin Laden, Sen. Patrick Leahy claims that "If the U.S. captures bin Laden, there's no need to interrogate him." Leahy explained that we already "have enough on" bin Laden.
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Congress
9/11
Lindsey Graham
Patrick Leahy
We've commented before on how often voters' experience and common sense allows them to see through the fog of misdirection that emanates from politicians and the media. The latest example: 62% say that "tax cuts are a better way to create jobs and fight unemployment. Only 21% believe that ...
