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Take Your Olive Branch and Shove It, Democrats

Posted on November 03, 2010
It?s time for less compromising, not more. On the eve of a historic midterm-election upheaval, Pres. Barack Obama tried to walk back his gratuitous slap at Americans who oppose his radical progressive agenda...

Demography Isn?t Political Destiny

Posted on November 03, 2010
Events change and attitudes change with them, for every demographic. After Barack Obama's election in 2008, the phrase was on the lips of progressive prognosticators everywhere. A permanent alignment had arrived...

An Opportunity, Not an Endorsement

Posted on November 03, 2010
The political landscape has changed, and Washington will now be held accountable for everything it does. Over the past several years, we've had the honor of working with millions of free-market activists across the country through our organization, Americans for Prosperity...

Beyond the Next Two Years

Posted on November 03, 2010
Yesterday?s elections will have long-lasting effects. Now that the voting is over, political pundits are trying to predict what impact the 2010 elections will have on the next two years: on taxes, health care, judicial confirmations, and the presidential election...

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Thrills, spills, &c.

Posted on November 03, 2010
I remember the day after the 1994 elections. I was working with a liberal Democrat -- almost a professional liberal Democrat. And he was quite sour, as you can imagine. He sniffed, 'Well, Ted Kennedy won in Massachusetts.' The senior senator had faced down a stiff challenge from Mitt Romney...

From Defeat to Rout

Posted on November 03, 2010
They can't say they weren't warned. The polls showed independents beginning to turn away from President Obama in the spring of 2009. Town halls in the summer showed strong grassroots resistance to the Democrats' health-care plan. In November 2009, Republicans won big in Virginia and New Jersey -- both states Obama had carried the year before...

Less Bad Stuff Is Good

Posted on November 03, 2010
So is pro-growth fiscal policy from a lame-duck Congress. Momentous events this week -- the Republican House sweep and the Fed's QE2 -- moved the stock market needle only a little over Tuesday and Wednesday, although the net impact was a gain of about 90 points...

Flake for Appropriations

Posted on November 03, 2010
It is time to shut down the House?s ?Favor Factory.? John Boehner said it best Tuesday night: 'This is not a time for celebration.#...#This is a time to roll up our sleeves.' There is a lot of work to be done, and the work will require a high degree of political savvy and a lot of labor if the GOP wants to stop the spending train that Obama, Reid, and Pelosi allowed to run out of control...

Election-watching with Jay Cost

Posted on November 02, 2010
NRO picks the brain of a professional horseracer. Jay Cost is a professional horseracer, politically speaking, so he's exactly who you want to be talking to on Election Day. National Review Online's Kathryn Jean Lopez asks Cost, a staff writer for The Weekly Standard, about the midterms...

Winners and Losers

Posted on November 02, 2010
Predicting tonight. We asked election experts and poll watchers for their best guesstimates as to who pulls it off, who doesn't, and how the likes of MSNBC and the New York Times may try to explain it all away...

More Rocket, Less Docket

Posted on November 02, 2010
How to bring justice to al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. ‘We need to bring him to justice as soon as we can.' In a Fox News interview Sunday, that was John Brennan, President Obama's top counterterrorism adviser, talking about Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri...

October Diary

Posted on November 02, 2010
Election fatigue, Fort Hood reconsidered, and more. Election non-fever This being October of an even year, I'm going to grumble about election fatigue, right? You bet! It's just fatigue, mind, not a chronic cynicism...

Keep Smug Alive

Posted on November 02, 2010
The morality tale that framed Stewart?s rally had all the subtlety of ?The Pilgrim?s Progress? or a WWE skit. During the Democratic primaries in 2008, Rush Limbaugh famously launched 'Operation Chaos' to keep the divisive contest between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton going...

Why I Now Vote Party, Not Individual

Posted on November 02, 2010
A Republican will vote for America?s values; a Democrat, no matter how personally charismatic, will not vote for these values. There is an American tradition of voting not for the party, but 'for the man...

Guess Who?

Posted on November 02, 2010
FDR?s own treasury secretary saw through New Deal economics long ago. Guess who said the following: 'We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work...

Corruption As Usual

Posted on November 02, 2010
The wider the scope of government, the more leeway for the corrupt First there was Bell, Calif., the little Los Angeles suburb that achieved distinction for its florid corruption. Robert Rizzo, former city manager, stands accused of 53 counts of misappropriating public funds and conflicts of interest...

Germany?s Freiheit Party Joins the Fray

Posted on November 02, 2010
A new political party pushes back against Islamization. A new German political party, Die Freiheit (The Freedom), had its inaugural meeting on October 28 in Berlin. I was in town, so its leadership invited me to be the only non-member of the nascent party to witness and report on its founding constituent assembly...

A Pro-Life Democrat Adrift

Posted on November 01, 2010
Last March, the Stupak Five caved on Obamacare. Now Stupak is retiring, and his followers are floundering. Cincinnati -- Seven months ago, on a cool evening in late March, Rep. Steve Driehaus, a freshman Democrat from Cincinnati, huddled with Rep...

Day of the Democratic Dead

Posted on November 01, 2010
This election is a referendum not on Obama personally, but on Obama as liberal progressive. For Delaware Democrat Chris Coons, it's fitting that Election Day comes two days after Halloween, running as he is against that sometime dabbler in witchcraft, Christine O'Donnell...

Why Ron Johnson Is Winning

Posted on November 01, 2010
How a businessman snuck up on Russ Feingold. Oshkosh, Wis. -- The Ron Johnson campaign isn't complicated. It boils down to repealing Obamacare, controlling spending, and pointing out that Russ Feingold is an insider and Johnson's not...

Marrakech Journal, Part VI

Posted on November 01, 2010
Okay, sports fans, this is the last installment, and it will not be long -- there are congressional elections to think about, I know. Here are the links to the previous parts of this journal: I, II, III, IV, V. I see a BBC team, getting ready for a debate to be televised far and wide...

Two Kinds of Recessions

Posted on November 01, 2010
Obama?s economists missed what voters plainly saw. Heading into what appears to be a disastrous midterm election, the Obama Democrats profess to be puzzled. The president's record, they insist, is moderate, accommodating -- if anything, overcautious...

Can Enough Tea Tear Down This False Wall?

Posted on November 01, 2010
Unholy faux?First Amendment politics. Christine O'Donnell may have had to deny being a witch, but she wasn't the only Halloween bogeyman for Democrats to trick voters with this election year...

A Nightmare on South Federal Highway

Posted on November 01, 2010
Our liberal hero faces down the evil Tea Party undead hordes. So there we were, hunkered down in Hallandale last night, like one of those bands of early Christians hiding out in the catacombs and staring into the darkness, hoping against hope not to see torchlight coming through the gloom because that kind of change was just simply not good for children, atheists, and other living things...

Election 2010 Predictions: Governors

Posted on November 01, 2010
If all goes as predicted below, the Republicans will have eight more governorships than they currently have. Republicans always looked set to have a good year in governor's races; what's fascinating is how many of these races appear likely to be GOP blowouts...

Election 2010 Predictions: The House

Posted on November 01, 2010
These picks are for entertainment purposes only. The Republicans' efforts in the House have been pretty amazing this year. They've put up good fights against all the Democrats they could plausibly hope to oust: almost all of those who won in 2006 and 2008, almost all of the Blue Dogs, almost all of the how-does-he-win-that-seat stalwarts (John Spratt, Chet Edwards, Gene Taylor, Ike Skelton), almost all of those vying for open seats, and even a few solid incumbents such as Phil Hare, John Hall, Bob Etheridge, and Jim Oberstar...

The GOP Idea Factory

Posted on November 01, 2010
Republican candidates are bursting with solutions for repairing America. Whether or not the GOP wins the U.S. Senate, several Republican contenders for the World's Greatest Deliberative Body hope to promote some rather unique proposals...

First Lunchlady

Posted on October 30, 2010
Attention poor people: Michelle Obama wants your lunch money. First ladies, out of whatever latent royalist instincts fester in our body politic, are expected to take up warm-and-fuzzy crusades -- Laura Bush and her worthy literacy projects, Just Say No, etc...

It?s Not the Economy, Stupid

Posted on October 30, 2010
Islamic terrorism will not be a back-burner issue for long, as Friday?s news shows. With debt exploding, joblessness climbing, growth stagnating, and sharp tax increases looming, the economy has dominated the midterm campaign that finally ends on Tuesday...

Curing Alzheimer?s

Posted on October 29, 2010
We must shift from reactive to preemptive thinking about medicine and health. Retired Supreme Court justice Sandra Day O'Connor and two coauthors (Dr. Stanley Prusiner, recipient of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Medicine, and Ken Dychtwald, a psychologist and gerontologist) published a profound op-ed in the New York Times yesterday...

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