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87 More Days Until Obama Breaks His Guantanamo Pledge
3 comments on 87 More Days Until Obama Breaks His Guantanamo PledgeThis week brings further reminders of why breaking that pledge will be the better part of valor. Many of the Gitmo detainees are Very Bad People, and there’s no good option for relocating them.
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“Every Republican in Congress Supports Reform” is a Stronger Message Than “No”
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell calls out the other side for dishonest framing of the healthcare debate. I fear the Republicans may have lost the battle simply by letting the issue be framed, improperly, as…
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Old Europe, an Unearned Nobel Prize, and a War of Necessity
Our European allies clearly have no stomach for the fight. As America considers sending up to 40,000 additional troops to Afghanistan, even the (relatively) stalwart UK today announced plans to send… um… 500. As in…
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The “Obama Silver-Lining Watch” and the Nobel Peace Prize
At first blush, the Nobel Prize may seem to make it harder for an Obama administration to do anything involving a projection of American military power. But there’s another way of looking at it. While…
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Revisiting Cash for Clunkers
The Wall Street Journal has just labeled the Cash for Clunkers program “one of Washington’s all-time dumb ideas.” (Hyperbole, of course — no program costing a “mere” $3 billion could possibly qualify for the all-time…
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Dumbest. Extortionist. Ever.
Note to would-be blackmailers: insist on cash. Then you have at least some shot at deniability (“officer, I don’t know anything about the $2 million in the duffle bag”).