The top 50 most egregious items in the stimulus bill. It’s not pretty.
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Why is Caroline Kennedy getting a certain treatment from the media?
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His first bit of controversy, and what is The Chosen One’s first response?
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Attorney General Michael Mukasey collapsed while giving a speech to the Federalist Society tonight. It appears to have been a stroke. Prayers.
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Some incredible photos from the newly-central front in the War on Terror.
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What we’ve seen in the smears against Sarah Palin go beyond the normal post-election squabbling.
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Thank you to our heroes. It’s you who make this grand experiment called America possible.
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I thought it might be useful to collect in one place a few of the highlights of Freeman’s keen analytical insight expressed over the years, grouped by subject with links to the sources.
The Hammer obliterates Obama on his abdication of responsibility on stem cells.
Our kids are the ultimate credit market, and the rest of us are all pre-approved!
This is quite serious. I can’t recall a similarly disastrous start in a half-century.
Let’s cut taxes, as I want, and spend more, as Obama would like.
I think we can all appreciate the thinking behind such bold outreach, given that the media at home has chortled to the world that our new guy’s unusual background, in sort of Zen-fashion, has befuddled the radical Islamic movement.
Liberalism’s fate rests on our new president’s shoulders. If Mr. Obama governs successfully, we’re in a new political era. If not, the country will be open to new conservative alternatives.
On the other hand, the data show that liberals need a nudge to give.
2009-2010 will rank with 1913-14, 1933-36, 1964-65 and 1981-82 as years that will permanently change our government, politics and lives.
Every day I have been inspired by the greatness of our country, and uplifted by the goodness of our people.
Except for Richard Nixon, no president since Harry Truman has left office more unloved than George W. Bush. Truman’s rehabilitation took decades. Bush’s will come sooner.
With government, mission creep is the defining feature.
Republicans for Obama, Democrats unsure.
George W. Bush was pegged as a hate figure even before being sworn in. Yet he resisted bitterness, stuck to principle and became what history will judge to be one of our better presidents.
He sacrificed his popularity to make the tough calls.
Ten things the president got right.
It seems that we can expect more continuity than change from President-elect Barack Obama’s foreign policy.
W.H. reporters predict that the market collapse will force Obama to delay many of his campaign promises.
It didn’t get that way without an ability to adapt.
Obama’s actions don’t back up his latest slogan.
Like a Hershey bar in a Nevada parking lot.
Barack Obama will need help from the rest of the world for his economic rescue to work.
I bet they feel silly now for unendorsing him.
Hat Tip LGF.
A shocking number from a study about the extent of civilian deaths during the war got a lot of attention. Too bad that further evidence indicating the figure is wildly inaccurate will go largely unnoticed.
The election is a blow to Iranian hopes of winning control of oil-rich southern Iraq through its Iraqi surrogates, turning it into a de facto Shiite republic controlled from Tehran.
A Gitmo detainee released at Saudi Arabia’s request has re-upped with al-Qaida and is now its chief of operations in Yemen. So, again, why do we want to empty the place?
Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki is trying to reassure Iraqis that he will respect local interests.
Facing a skeptical and sometimes hostile crowd, 13 candidates vying for seats on Baghdad’s provincial council passed around a microphone for three hours during a town hall debate this month as voters threw out questions and challenged their answers.
The ACLU’s quest to free a terrorist responsible for the USS Cole bombing.
The two British soldiers killed in southern Afghanistan on Thursday died fighting for their country against a deadly and determined foe.
On Jan. 20, 1981, Ronald Reagan welcomed the return of American hostages in victory. On Jan. 20, 2009, Barack Obama will welcome the closing of Guantanamo in appeasement. Yes, change has come.
In 1981, Israel did us all the great service of destroying Saddam Hussein’s Osirak reactor. Israel was widely condemned for it. Now, courtesy of a front-page story in today’s New York Times, we read that in 2008, Israel was willing to tackle Iran’s nuclear program. But…
Some within our intelligence community seem to think that they are above the law.
“Please do not sit there with that smug look on your face and expect me to regret the decisions that I have made, because, sir, the truth is, I don’t.’’ - Jack Bauer
Two more top al-Qaida operatives collected their virgins on New Year’s Day. Justice may be delayed, but not denied. Look up in the sky: It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a . . . Predator drone!
The US killed al Qaeda’s chief of operations in the New Year’s Day missile strike in Pakistan’s Taliban-controlled tribal agency of South Waziristan, according to a report.
The story of one former Guantánamo detainee is far more complicated than the New York Times lets on.
Once again, Americans asked to put their lives on the line go on trial. Their crime was doing the very job we asked them to do in Iraq. Will they now be sacrificed for an ungrateful Iraq?
Two years ago, a controversial military manual rewrote U.S. strategy in Iraq. Now, the doctrine’s simple, powerful—even radical—tenets must be applied to the far different and neglected conflict in Afghanistan. Plus, David Petraeus talks to FP about how to win a losing war.
It makes for a strange college campus: Cement blast walls, helicopters roaring overhead, packs of wild dogs howling, the risk of mortar and rocket attacks.
‘The wounds I received I got in a job I love.’
As the Iraqi Government takes over control of the capital, the US readiness to learn from past mistakes is rapidly leading to a more normal country.
Below is an overview of the major developments in the most active theaters across the globe in the Long War.
The U.S. is preparing to pour at least 20,000 extra troops into southern Afghanistan to cope with a Taliban insurgency that is fiercer than NATO leaders expected.
The plan reflects a U.S.-led effort to seek out a more reliable alternative to the strategic Khyber Pass.
1) Request that 50% of Israel’s air-to-ground missiles be duds to ensure greater proportionality.
We’ve got Solar Flag Lights on sale for Memorial Day. Stop by and check them out.
Ayn Rand died more than a quarter of a century ago, yet “Atlas Shrugged” is selling at a faster rate than at any time in its history.
Again, we haven’t been updating so much because we’re working on this, our other venture.
We wouldn’t need pay caps if shareholders were given their rights.
Chapter and verse on a bad bill.
If anyone wished to know what the baby-boomer generation would do when, in its full maturity, it hit its first self-created, big-time recession, I think we are seeing the hysterical results.
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Socialized health care fundamentally changes the relationship between citizens and state.
Friday’s jobs report was awful, but contrary to popular belief does not signal the death of the consumer.
It would be a shame if countries respond to the downturn with policies that further retard growth.
The SEC makes a practice of being wrong.
Why should management have a monopoly over restructuring proposals?
In a speech focused on fiscal discipline, the president-elect referred Wednesday to out-of-control Social Security and Medicare spending. Can he tackle these problems while launching a record stimulus?
Why aren’t more of the fans of a Big Three bailout buying American?
Before you do anything else, make a note to read “The Top Ten Myths of American Health Care” by Sally C. Pipes. It might literally save your life…
Be diversified and don’t assume past performance will continue.
General Motors and its ‘financing affiliate’ are playing games with taxpayer money.
Does it make sense for a political operator such as Leon Panetta to head the CIA? Maybe. The flawed agency has a checkered history, and has had repeated run-ins with presidents of both parties.
We should not panic and must say No to people who - by describing the current moment as the historically unique one - want only to manipulate us.
I had intended to show Aew a bit of my country. But it’s taking a little while for her to get over her discomfort at being in America. She was treated better in China. So was I.
Congress is ready to ram through a half-baked stimulus package costing as much as $1 trillion. But if it’s stimulus we need, why not make it effective stimulus — tax cuts, say, instead of wasteful spending?
Bolster its risk-assessment and enforcement staff.
They are often annoying, but we’ll miss them when they’re gone.
So, I learned a painful lesson from all that: Big Brother is not watching out for us. Orwell had it wrong.
Yes. It is more dangerous than anti-Semitism, threatening lives and peace in the Middle East.
A Russian general has issued a public warning about the dangers posed by the Islamist regime in Tehran. Is further confirmation needed to convince the West that the dithering United Nations isn’t the answer?
Not since the Second Intifada, when more than a thousand Israelis were murdered by Palestinian suicide bombers, have Israeli civilians suffered in a way that makes for compelling news copy or TV reports.
That Likud and Kadima are still nearly tied in the polls is astounding when you consider their respective leaders’ records. One, despite known flaws, has racked up several impressive successes in previous posts. The other has amassed an unbroken string of failures.
America’s diplomacy of freedom is officially over.
I’ve just returned from a week-long trip through Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, and Israel’s border with Gaza, and I’m reminded all over again of what has been beaten into me during my many visits to the Middle East: there is no solution to the problems that vex that region right now.
The dollar-yuan link has been a great boon to world prosperity.
Obama’s put a dent in racism. Will he defend Jews?
The US’s abstention from the vote on Resolution 1860 is a stunning statement of hostility toward Israel.
More than Israel’s disengagement from the Strip as a whole, the abandonment of this strategic area made full-scale war inevitable.
No phrase represents more of a triumph of hope over experience than the phrase “Middle East peace process.”
Hamas cares more about Shariah than ‘Palestine.’
Well-meaning Western commentators make a grave error when they insist that Islamist terrorists want to drag the Muslim world back to the seventh century. It’s much worse than that.
For those individuals—such as nearly all members of the world news media—who see moral equivalence between Israel and the Palestinians, here are some clarifying thoughts.
Usually we stop anti-Israel resolutions.
Fatah official: Hamas black and bloody militia.
Stop funding a Palestinian youth bulge, and the fighting will stop too.
Its leadership is seriously degraded and openly humiliated.
For Islamists in Gaza, Palestine is part of a global religious struggle not a battle to create an independent state.
Israel is significantly weakening Hamas – with Palestinian help.
In Sderot, a 15-second warning, then boom.
A high-profile Norwegian doctor who has said the September 11 terrorists were justified in their attack is now treating patients in Gaza and is being accused of presenting “hard-core propaganda” to TV interviewers in his telling of the conflict between Hamas and Israel.
Proponents of a French-Egyptian plan for a cease-fire in Gaza say it might stop the fighting. But for any chance at peace, Hamas must be defeated decisively.
Where's all that hope and change?
As the year ends, we are reminded of Israel's continuous fight for survival, and are again reminded of Israel's undaunted spirit which assures it.
When Israeli civilians are indiscriminately attacked, it's not even news. When Israel defends itself and attacks terrorists, it's an outrage.
We only hope that Israel's bombardment of Gaza portends a stronger hand in dealing with the terrorist thugs of Hamas.
Some light reading on Christmas.
A Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night.
McCain?? Nope, Ann Coulter says it's Sarah Palin.
As disgusted as we would be, should we really be surprised if Franken steals this thing?
