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Another Body Blow to the “Tea Party Is Racist” Meme
Fiendishly clever, these Tea Partyers. You can almost hear the wheels turning in their twisted little minds. "What’s the most effective way to camouflage my deep-seated racism? Ha! I’ll vote for the black guy!"
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Obama Builds His “Buffett Rule” on a Foundation of Nonsense
I am not a no-tax-hike absolutist. The Democratic orgy of spending on the phony "stimulus" package has us deep enough in the hole that I think some tax increases are inevitable. But spare me the pious claptrap from the Oracle of Omaha.
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A Bishop, a Rabbi and an Imam Walked Into a Room a Few Miles from Ground Zero…
The service bulletin thoughtfully provided an English translation of the call to prayer, which begins and ends with "Allahu Akbar." Tragically, that phrase is associated in my mind with the hatred and anger of too many terrorist attacks. It was a blessing on this day to hear in those words an affirmation of our common humanity.
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Race, American Exceptionalism, and the Delicate Art of Criticizing Obama
To describe Mr. Obama’s attitude as anti-American is to caricature it. But he does seem motivated by a vision of America as just one more unremarkable country among many. That point of view has a constituency — but I’m not part of it.
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Hope Burns a Bit Brighter for a Positive Ending in Libya
Today is my birthday, and the entire Northeast seaboard is preparing for Hurricane Irene. So what’s on my mind on this Kirk-and-Irene-focused day? Libya, of course. Specifically, whether President Obama deserves any credit for what tentatively seems to be shaping up as a reasonably OK outcome.
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Too Bad We Can’t Put “Generic Republican” on the Presidential Ballot
Unfortunately, Obama will face a specific Republican with specific baggage next November.
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In Praise of the Tea Party’s Debt-Ceiling Victory
“The Tea Party has an agenda,†[Fareed] Zakaria told host Anderson Cooper, and argued “it cannot get it through the political democratic process…. [They say] “we’ll blow up the country if you don’t listen to us.†This is nonsense on stilts. In fact, the Tea Party members, elected in 2010 in a historic rebuke to Obamacare and the Democrats, have just used the "political democratic process" to win an important victory on behalf of smaller government.
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Suze Orman Doesn’t Seem to Know How Credit Cards Work
"To not raise the debt ceiling is akin to refusing to pay your credit card bill." Nope. It’s akin to making minimum monthly payments on the credit card, while applying for an increase in your credit limit. Tea Party Republicans are saying, this is it — no more increases in credit limits, you’re too far in debt already.
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Obama’s “I Blame George Bush” Act Is Growing Old
More than 30 months into the era of Obamanomics, the administration is still desperately seeking to blame all of the nation’s woes on George W. Bush. They’re getting less and less traction with that argument — Obama’s approval rating just hit a new low of 40%, according to Gallup’s tracking poll.