Archive for March, 2009
Sunday, March 8th, 2009
Yes, I want this, and other stupid ideas, to fail: Do you really have to be a “neocon” to worry about a guy who’s effectively been working for the Saudis, who served on the board of an oil company effectively owned by the Chinese government, and who argued that Beijing should have cracked down faster [...]
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Sunday, March 8th, 2009
Bookworm on Growing the Grassroots: The gal who started the Marin conservative gatherings that I’ve had the pleasure of attending sent out a broadcast email reminding all conservatives, especially those trapped in blue communities, that it’s not enough to sit at home, read the blogs and complain. We have to work towards a change in [...]
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Sunday, March 8th, 2009
Indeed: Barack Obama’s offhand approach to Gordon Brown’s Washington visit last week came about because the president was facing exhaustion over America’s economic crisis and is unable to focus on foreign affairs, the Sunday Telegraph has been told. This is incredible. We have a President who can only make excuse codes. He must be too [...]
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Sunday, March 8th, 2009
Don Singleton: Precisely. It is about wealth transfer, and making everyone dependant on Big Government. This stuff is simple folks. Obama is a radical. We had better start fighting back now.
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Saturday, March 7th, 2009
The policies of our beloved Obama. Jennifer Rubin notes Michael Barone: The Obama tax plan, combined with major state tax plans, puts not a three in front of the high earners’ tax rate as the Clinton plan did, it puts a four or a five in front of it. And at that point, I fear, [...]
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Saturday, March 7th, 2009
Could not agree more with Dan Riehl: As for Republicans, they are so damned dumb and undisciplined when it comes to messaging, one or more of them always falls into the trap and gets their fifteen minutes of fame and shame looking like the idiots they are. They could easily clean Obama’s clock by stealing [...]
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Saturday, March 7th, 2009
Mark Steyn on a roll: That’s what a lot of these smart guys thought when they saw Obama: “He looks like me. I can imagine myself sitting across from him at dinner and enjoying it.” Whereas Dean Barnett talked like Sarah Palin marinated in a vat of chowder for a year and a half. Nevertheless, [...]
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Saturday, March 7th, 2009
Jay Nordlinger: John Negroponte, former director of national intelligence, former ambassador in Iraq, former a lot of things. . . . Let me tell you what he said about Iran and nukes — sobering words, given what the man must know: “I think that’s what they want, I think that’s what they’re headed towards, I [...]
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