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Obama Pays for Gates-gate in the Rasmussen Poll
5 comments on Obama Pays for Gates-gate in the Rasmussen PollPresident Obama has slipped to the worst rating of his young presidency in the daily Rasmussen Presidential Tracking Poll, weighing in at -11 points. That’s based on likely voters with strong opinions. He fares better…
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Loading Up the Corruption Bus in New Jersey
(Welcome, New York Times readers. You might be interested in other posts about New Jersey and Maplewood.) My adopted home state of New Jersey has a long sordid history of political corruption. We’re not yet…
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Flash Reaction to Obama’s Walk-Back of “Stupid” Comment
Embedded video from <a href=”http://www.cnn.com/video” mce_href=”http://www.cnn.com/video”>CNN Video</a> This will continue to be debated and analyzed for days, but my first thought was, “good for Obama.” If you go looking for things to criticize in his…
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Plenty of Stupidity to Go Around in Arrest of Gates
It took President Obama five days to speak out critically about the brutal suppression in Iran. He said he didn’t want to be “seen as meddling.” Law enforcement officials around the country are no doubt…
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Mr. Maliki Goes to Washington, Standing Tall
For his first couple of years as Prime Minister of Iraq, the conventional wisdom held that Nouri al-Maliki was in over his head. Even people who supported the war tended to think that Maliki was…
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Obama Wins Battle to Defund F-22 — and I’m Glad
Just hours after celebrating a decline in “the administration’s ability to steamroll Congress,” I find myself celebrating a successful Obama veto threat. With Senators crossing party lines in both directions, the Senate voted 50-48 today…
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Time May Have Expired for Obama’s “Crisis=Opportunity” Tactics
A few weeks after the November election, incoming White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel famously said “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that is, an…
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How “Blue” is New Jersey — and for How Long?
I market my blog as the musings of “a red-state voter in a deep blue state.” It’s a catchy line, and it lends itself to a jazzy 125×125 logo — created by the Web Goddess,…
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A Tip for Business Owners Navigating in a “Jobless Recovery”
The economy is sending mixed signals — which at least is an improvement over just a few months ago. Newsweek reports today that “the Fed has become both more optimistic and more pessimistic,” with GNP…
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It Didn’t Work the First Time, So Now: Porkulus II
At The American, the Journal of the American Enterprise Institute, Phil Levy writes: As unemployment rises ominously toward 10 percent and the economy continues to appear listless, leading economic voices have begun to call for…