Sunday, April 27, 2008

Barack Obama's Unfamiliar Narrative

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Things just keep grinding along in Democratic Party nomination politics. We're now seeing the advocacy of what might be called "com...

Education Still at Risk After Twenty-Five Years

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As Chester Finn reports in his piece, " Twenty-Five Years Later, A Nation Still at Risk ," yesterday marked the twenty-fifth anniv...

Americans Pessimistic About Economy

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Gallup reports a deep pessimism about the economy: Eighty-six percent of Americans say the U.S. economy is getting worse, while 44% rate th...

Clinton Has Edge in Popular Vote

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I discussed the possibility of a brokered Democratic convention in my post last night, " Will Superdelegates Rubber-Stamp the Popular V...

Hillary is No Mainstream Moderate

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One of my commenters, Tom the Redhunter , has suggested that if he had to choose, he'd take Hillary Clinton over Barack Obama : If my on...

Obama's Ties to Ayers and Dohrn Aren't Trifling

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Jeff Jacoby weighs in on Barack Obama's ties to '60s-era radicals William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn. These aren't "trifli...
Saturday, April 26, 2008

Will Superdelegates Rubber-Stamp the Popular Vote?

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With a recent survey of Democratic Party superdelegates showing Hillary Clinton with a slim 16-person lead among 476 pledged superdelegates...

GOP Targets Obama on General Election Liabilities

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Andrew Sullivan 's probably going to be calling foul from here until November, but it sure looks like Barack Obama's paving the way ...

Progressive Hypocrisy in Alleged Clinton Violence

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I'm not normally going to find myself in agreement with the Tennessee Guerilla Women , but I do appreciate TGW's post pointing out t...

Israel at 60: Can the Jewish State Survive?

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May 14th marks the 60th anniversary of the creation of the Jewish state in Israel. As a staunch supporter of the Israeli people, I'm dee...

Who's Your Favorite Public Intellectual?

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We've all got 'em: A favorite author who's influenced the way we see the world. Some scholar or activist whose thinking's op...

Defining Success in Iraq

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Frederick Kagan's got a new essay laying out a metric for determining American success in Iraq, at the Weekly Standard : The president...

Shark Kills Professor Emeritus in Solana Beach

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I saw the story on the California shark attack yesterday, and this morning's Los Angeles Times has the details: The attack was swift an...

Obama's Failure to Clinch: It's Not About Racism

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I noted in my earlier post, " Is it Really Race That's Messy Up the Democrats? ," that Barack Obama's inability to clinch ...
Friday, April 25, 2008

Bashing Thomas Friedman

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I've never read one of Thomas Friedman's books. I read his columns occasionally, but as he's usually on leave from the Times - ...

The Radical Left's Denialism on Iraq Public Opinion

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In a recent poll , Gallup found that the number of Americans who viewed the Iraq war as a mistake had reached the highest level in the histo...