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Tribalism, Not Religious Faith
A recent story from Pakistan highlights the utter depravity of Muslim extremists who threaten all civilized societies. India recently executed Mohammed Kasab, the lone surviving gunmen in the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks that slaughtered 160 civilians.
This was India’s first execution in 15 years, and the condemned killer admitted his role in the killings....
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David Mamet’s The Anarchist: The New Left’s Terrible Triumph
In New York Friday to appear on Sean Hannity’s program, I stayed an extra day to catch an early performance of David Mamet’s new play The Anarchist, now in its second week of previews. Sitting next to Marcello, a Brazilian venture capitalist, we chatted about the election just past.
“I do not understand you Americans. Dogs on car roofs?...
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Killing in Self Defense Is Not “Assassination”
When Seal Team Six killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan, no one described it as an “assassination.” Why not? Because Osama wasn’t a civilian political leader; he was a terrorist combatant who had declared war on America, and tried to continue his attacks in any way possible.
Why, then, have the New York Times and other media outlets referred to...
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The End of “Land for Peace”
The current conflict in Gaza should put an end, once and for all, to western pressure for “land for peace” negotiations in the Middle East. In 2005, the Israeli government withdrew all security forces, as well as forcibly removing 9,000 Jewish residents, to give Palestinians exclusive control of Gaza.
The world hoped that in ruling this enclave,...
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Secession and Other Fantasies
Some fringe conservatives seem perversely determined to turn a stinging electoral defeat into an epic, sweeping disaster. That’s the deeper meaning of current talk about impeachment, secession, third parties, civil disobedience, and onrushing apocalypse.
The Conservative Majority Fund has announced a new robocall campaign to build support for impeaching...
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Gay Marriage Issue Actually Helps GOP
Conventional wisdom argues that opposition to gay marriage hurt Republicans in the recent election cycle, but nothing in the numbers suggests that this is true.
In the four liberal states where advocates for same-sex marriage won their victories, the redefinition of marriage proved much less popular than Barack Obama. In Maryland, for instance, Obama cruised...
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Memo to the States’ Governors and AGs on The Decision On Obamacare’s Exchanges: Go Churchill Or Go Home
With the president mobilizing for a barnstorming tour in support of massive tax hikes and to, in effect, overturn last week’s vote to keep the House in GOP hands and the gavel in John Boehner’s –details here on the president’s plan– the GOP is getting organized in the House and laying down markers.
The media is focused on...
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Divided Government: An Opportunity, Note a Fluke
Do Americans have any right to complain about paralysis in the nation’s capital when they keep voting for divided government?
With most results already in, it appears that Democrats will hold onto their control of the Senate while Republicans will maintain their majority in the House. President Obama will confront a Congress that remains split, without...
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Mittmentum Builds
Michael Barone is America’s “one man decision desk,” with credibility on elections far beyond that of anyone else working the field in America today.
Which is why Michael’s bold Washington Examiner column from yesterday cut through all the spin from Chicago and all the blather from MSNBC, and struck President Obama supporters in their gut.
Barone, having...
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The Stretch Run
You want good news about the election? Start with Rove.
You want to scare yourself even though Halloween is over? Read Sons of Cincinnatus.
Nate Silver predicts that there is a 87.342% chance you will read both because people following this election read everything.
The misery in New York and New Jersey is a backdrop that is definitely impacting the election,...
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Glass Jaw O-ba-ma
If Peggy Noonan is correct, and the president’s performance in the first debate revealed him to be “[p]etulant, put upon, above it all, full of himself,” then the two weeks since have shown him to own what they call in the world of boxing, “a glass jaw.”
A glass jaw is the inability of a fighter to take a direct hit, one on the chin, a roundhouse. Once...
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The Choice: Worthy or Worthless?
Perhaps the most significant if unspoken argument for voters to settle on November sixth involves the bitter dispute over which candidate has lived the more virtuous, worthwhile, constructive life: Barack Obama or Mitt Romney?
Democrats raise this question implicitly in their avalanche of attacks on the GOP nominee, portraying him as a greedy, callow, uncaring...
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President Obama’s Closing Act: An Epic Collapse
The ongoing collapse of President Obama’s campaign may lead to some extraordinary stunts during Monday’s last debate, but no matter what he tries, it is very unlikely that the president can reverse the enormous momentum behind Mitt Romney’s campaign.
(One data point. Congressman John Campbell, a frequent guest on my radio show, polled his...
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Obama Awakes—But Can’t Stop Mitt
Forget about Barack Obama’s eagerly awaited emergence from his first debate coma: the biggest question about the second candidate confrontation centered on whether Mitt managed to maintain his undeniable momentum.
After all, a flurry of pre-debate polls showed Romney as the newly minted frontrunner—especially a Gallup survey that gave him a commanding...
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Explaining Romney’s Surge
“Tonight the part of Wile E. Coyote will be played by Vice President Joe Biden.”
Thursday night’s debate between Biden and Congressman Paul Ryan went according to the super-secret plan of Karl Rove to not only defeat but deeply embarrass the Democratic Party.
Rove had previously arranged for President Obama to take two Ambien before the first...
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How Low Will Joe Go?
In his feeble, distracted debate performance against Mitt Romney, President Obama all but ignored the major Democratic lines of attack against the Republican nominee, forcing Joe Biden to consider an effort to renew those forgotten narratives when the vice-presidential candidates face one another Thursday night.
Team Obama has spent hundreds of millions of...
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