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How Much Trouble are the Democrats In?
5 comments on How Much Trouble are the Democrats In?Classmate, pal and fellow right-leaning ex-journalist Van Wallach at Kesher Talk thinks journalists are overplaying the Democratic debacle story line in Massachusetts: Don’t buy into the hype about terrible trouble for the Democrats. Some trouble,…
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Brown Victory Should Spell an End to Obamacare
I guess we can’t call it the People’s Republic of Massachusetts any more. At 52% to 47%, it wasn’t even particularly close. Democrats in the House are stumbling over each other as they back away…
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NJ Episcopalians Respond to Haitian Tragedy
Many worthy organizations are scrambling to help the victims of the horrific earthquake in Haiti. There also have been reports of scams. If you want to help and have not yet chosen a charity, I…
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A Conservative Sticks Up for Harry Reid, Sort of
I don’t agree with every syllable of Nicholas Guariglia’s commentary, but this part works: Senator Harry Reid is a corrupt statist, embodying everything wrong with the 111th U.S. Congress. But he isn’t a bigot. Reid…
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The Conservative Case for Gay Marriage
After the New Jersey Senate’s disgraceful vote to deny equal rights to same-sex couples, the fight for marriage equality turns to federal court. Testimony began today in the effort to overturn California’s Proposition 8. A…
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Today’s NJ Gay Marriage Vote Hurts Real People
Same-sex marriage is a straightforward civil rights issue, and the only acceptable outcome is full marriage equality. I believe I’ll see it in my lifetime. But New Jersey took a step in the wrong direction…
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Obama: “The Negotiations Will Be on C-SPAN”
The offensive part of this is not the breaking of a misguided campaign promise to hold public negotiations. What’s offensive is that the legislation that results from those negotiations will be rushed through the Congress…
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It’s Getting Harder to Hide the Decline
When I was a newspaper reporter — back in the last ice age, har har har — I was assigned to cover a press conference staged by an agency of the New Jersey state government.
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Jonah Goldberg’s Elegant Paean to Capitalism
It’s worth reading the whole thing, but since you won’t, here are the concluding stanzas: America, with its markets, stands alone as the leading, arguably sole, source of medical innovation. Breakthrough drugs are as American…
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Obama: “Our Nation is at War Against a Far-Reaching Network of Violence and Hatred”
Perhaps all of the criticism from Dick Cheney and others about a law-enforcement approach to terrorism has had a positive effect. In his weekly address today, President Obama reprises one of the better lines from…