Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Public Favors McCain Over Democrats

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A new Los Angeles Times poll finds GOP frontrunner John McCain edging ahead of both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama in potential general ...

McCain and the Iraq Issue

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Will Iraq be a winning election issue for John McCain in November? Ramesh Ponnuru poses things this way : Senator John McCain blurted out t...
Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Barack Obama and the Power of Words

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I've noted a number of times now that Barack Obama's lofty rhetoric cannot hide his advocacy of policies that would take the country...

McCain Prospects Hinge on Iraq

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The general election prospects of John McCain, the GOP nominee-in-waiting, depend on how well he can convince the public that America's ...
Monday, February 25, 2008

100 Years in Iraq? The Left Takes Aim at McCain

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The left's hammering John McCain's statement that U.S. troops could stay " maybe 100 " years in Iraq, hoping to paint the ...

McCain is Competitive Against Likely Democratic Nominee

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New polls from the New York Times and USA Today find Barack Obama favored over Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination. The Times ...

Democratic Promises May Break Treasury

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USA Today adds a cautionary note to election debates by showing how a Democratic administration in 2009 will cost the treasury hundreds of...

Election '08: No One Has a Clue

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Noemie Emery makes a good case that we're politically clueless on what will happen this year, in " Six Things We Don't Know ...

Captain Ed Joins Hot Air!

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In January I was perplexed by Captain Ed Morrissey's counterintuitive endorsement of Mitt Romney for the GOP presidential nomination . ...

GOP to Combat Charges of Racism, Sexism

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The Republican National Committee is researching possible strategies to rebut likely allegations of racism and sexism as party officials pre...
Sunday, February 24, 2008

Afghanistan and Iraq: The Long-Term Commitments

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Anthony Cordesman, of the Center for Strategic and International Studies , can hardly be considered a neoconservative war-booster. His analy...

Right Wing Bloggers to Vote McCain

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A fascinating but absolutely non-scientific survey of right-wing bloggers finds 75 percent indicating they'll vote for John McCain in No...

Republicans Rallying to McCain?

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The spin on the post- NYT smear campaign against John McCain is that the GOP pre-nomination rift is healed. Sure, the Politico reports th...

Nader's Presidential Bid a Boon to GOP

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I pretty much expected Ralph Nader to enter the race for the presidency at some point, and I'm glad he did (as long as he can't win ...

Who's the Election's Neoconservative Standard-Bearer?

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Candidates talk a lot about change, and this year's no exception. But once in office we often see the implementation of policies differe...

Republicans Emerge As Country's Coalition Party

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Fred Barnes makes the case for a reversal of roles between the two major parties . The Democrats have long been a party of fissiparous inter...
Saturday, February 23, 2008

The West is Best

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Ibn Warraq argues for the superiority of the West, at City Journal : The great ideas of the West—rationalism, self-criticism, the disinteres...