I’ve read a few articles recently that discussed President Obama’s new foreign policy principles. He has committed himself to working with other countries in carrying out international objectives. This is supposed to be a change from the George W. Bush era when the United States acted in a unilateral fashion. Frankly, I’ve read the articles, […]
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The political experts have been saying for quite some time that there is an anti-incumbent spirit roiling across the fruited plains. And this reality has been borne out in the primaries so far, just ask the defeated Democrat, I mean Republican, I mean Democrat Arlen Specter, the party-switching Senator from Pennsylvania. Is the country poorer
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President Barack Obama’s pick to be our newest Supreme Court nominee, Elena Kagan, is at the same time both a predictable choice and a surprising one. Here’s what I mean: Ms. Kagan has a liberal world view, which is totally unremarkable. The President is left of center, so it only makes sense that he wants
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I couldn’t really come up with one strong idea to write about this time, so I’m going with two, half-formulated thoughts on politics and the movie “Avatar.” One, this huge oil spill will help President Obama with his base supporters. I was pretty surprised when he expressed some openness to drilling for oil. He hadn’t
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Occasionally people in the media try to make a case for what turns out to be a mirage. It happens with liberal media figures sometimes when they try to write about how conservatives feel. I assume it happens the other way, too, but the (non) issue I’m discussing this week and the first example that
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