Posts Tagged ‘Politics’
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Don’t Cry for Me, Argentina
Posted on June 24, 2011
Eric Cantor pulled out of the Vice President’s debt talks the other day, convinced that the Democrats were leading him down a politically unsustainable path. Republicans don’t think revenues are...
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The Afghan War
Posted on June 23, 2011
President Obama took 13 minutes to say something he could have said in 30 seconds. He is taking 10,000 troops out of Afghanistan immediately and plans to take out 30,000...
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Huntsman
Posted on June 22, 2011
Candidly, I don’t know what to make of the Jon Huntsman announcement yesterday. It wasn’t the smoothest of starts. Apparently, his announcement press release misspelled his first name (he doesn’t...
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The Real Scandal
Posted on June 17, 2011
I heard Congressman Steve Israel, the head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, on television this morning talking about the real scandal. His point was that the real scandal wasn’t...
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Collapse of Cold War Consensus
Posted on June 15, 2011
It took awhile, but the Cold War consensus is finally shattering. The Cold War consensus centered around a basic proposition: America was going to both pay and provide the military...
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