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Banks Are Lending More (to the Government)

Posted on October 29, 2010
?Quantitative easing? doesn?t mean more credit for Main Street. The Federal Reserve's open-market committee (FOMC) is widely expected to try a second dose of 'quantitative easing' when they meet again in early November...

Jeff Perry: Scott Brown 2.0?

Posted on October 29, 2010
Besides his own strong record in the Massachusetts state legislature, Jeff Perry has two big things going for him: Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi. Massachusetts's 10th congressional district, which includes Cape Cod and the famed Kennedy compound, is the most conservative district in the state...

Even in Alaska, Earmarks Are in Trouble

Posted on October 29, 2010
New voters have a new approach to federal spending. Republican Senate candidate Joe Miller is touting an unusual position in Alaska politics: no earmarks. In a state that still remembers fondly the federal dollars that Republican senator Ted Stevens brought home for sundry projects, it's a daring stance -- and one that crucially differentiates him from Sen...

Pelosi's Cannon Fodder

Posted on October 29, 2010
To the speaker, health-care reform was a hill worth letting her members die for. After ordering Pickett's charge, Robert E. Lee reputedly mingled on the Gettysburg battlefield with his soldiers fortunate enough to have survived the debacle...

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Early Voting Fraud

Posted on October 29, 2010
From Nevada to Daytona Beach, ballot irregularities have already started cropping up. November 2 is not here yet, but polling problems have begun. From possibly malfunctioning ballot gear to potential fraud, the 2010 midterm vote has been marred even before Election Day has dawned...

Marrakech Journal, Part V

Posted on October 29, 2010
This will be the penultimate installment -- or second-to-the-last, if you like things less Latin. Monday's will be the last: moving this journal into double digits (for Monday's installment will be Part VI). Here are the links to the previous parts: I, II, III, and IV...

Conservative Women Are Standing Tall

Posted on October 29, 2010
Despite vulgar talk-show abuse and patronizingly clueless journalists. My military friends have a favorite saying: 'If you're not catching flak, you're not over the target.' This campaign season, conservative women in politics have caught more flak than WWII Lancaster bombers over Berlin...

All Quiet on the Black-Ops Front

Posted on October 29, 2010
Why isn?t Julian Assange dead? I'd like to ask a simple question: Why isn't Julian Assange dead? In case you didn't know, Assange is the Australian computer programmer behind WikiLeaks, a massive -- and massively successful -- effort to disclose secret or classified information...

The Great Campaign of 2010

Posted on October 29, 2010
The beauty of this year's campaign is that it actually has a point. In a radio interview that aired Monday on Univision, President Obama chided Latinos who 'sit out the election instead of saying, ‘We're gonna punish our enemies and we're gonna reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us...

GOP: Hold the Hubris

Posted on October 29, 2010
Democrats have alienated voters, but Republicans haven?t fully won them, yet. I am as delighted as any conservative could be about predictions for Tuesday's election. But the exultation of some on the right is making me nervous...

Shift in Washington State Boosts GOP Hopes

Posted on October 29, 2010
Dino Rossi?s upward trend is part of a larger pattern. Unmistakable signs of a Republican trend are brightening the chances of a GOP takeover of the U.S. Senate. Yesterday, a new Rasmussen poll showed Republican Dino Rossi one point ahead of incumbent Sen...

Final Nail in the Democrats? Coffin

Posted on October 29, 2010
Government planners have created a stagflationary growth recession. On the eve of the midterm elections, a third-quarter GDP report showing a meager 2 percent growth rate is the final nail in the Obama Democrats' political coffin...

Marrakech Journal, Part IV

Posted on October 28, 2010
Friends, welcome to the fourth installment of these jottings from Morocco, where I'm attending 'Davos in the Desert' -- more formally, the World Economic Forum on the Middle East and North Africa. Here are links to the preceding parts: I, II, and III...

The Battle for Rural Pennsylvania

Posted on October 28, 2010
A Blue Dog and a Republican fight for a region that?s fed up with Washington. Glenshaw, Pa. -- Joe Laus wants to win a gun. A job would be better, but for now, one of the shiny rifles lying on a plastic table at the front of Moose Lodge #46 is within reach, and he's prepared to sit here all afternoon, hoping...

The Rogue Race of Rhode Island

Posted on October 28, 2010
Republican John Loughlin just might take another seat from the Kennedys. Lincoln, R.I. -- It's the week before a momentous election, and John Loughlin is shaking hands at a strip mall. He's feeling better about his prospects than you'd expect the Republican candidate in Rhode Island's 1st congressional district to be...

Radical in the White House

Posted on October 28, 2010
Stanley Kurtz didn?t have to go to Kenya to figure out who Barack Obama really is. Stanley Kurtz hit an Organizing for America nerve during Barack Obama's campaign for president. Stanley, a Harvard-educated social anthropologist, is a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and has written for National Review and National Review Online for over a decade...

The Drug-War Failure

Posted on October 28, 2010
A metaphorical war has imposed some very real costs. It is indicative of the failure of the current election to deal with real issues, apart from unease about deficits and curiosity about the endless military effort in the Near East, that, once again, almost nothing is asked or uttered about the proverbial War on Drugs, even as the virtual civil war it has caused in Mexico is amply publicized...

Retired O?Connor Still Making Trouble

Posted on October 28, 2010
Ex-Justice helps Ninth Circuit Overturn vote-fraud law A divided Ninth Circuit panel ruled on Tuesday that Arizona's Proposition 200, adopted by the people of the state in 2004 to protect the integrity of elections, is invalid...

Pivot to National Security

Posted on October 28, 2010
A smart post-election move for Obama. Assuming the polls, prognosticators, and pundits are worth their salt, this time next week President Obama will be facing political climate change. So if his advisers are worth their salt, they're now telling him: 'We're going to need you to pivot, sir...

American Groupspeak

Posted on October 28, 2010
Here are some reminders about what to keep quiet about. Juan Williams was just fired from NPR. His sin? He confessed to occasional anxiety when people in Muslim garb board airplanes, and then went on to explain why stereotyping is wrong...

Forgetting the Constitution

Posted on October 28, 2010
The assurance that ?separation of church and state? is in the Constitution shows our elites? ignorance. Politics is not the only place where some pretty brassy statements have been made and repeated so often that some people have accepted these brassy statements as being as good as gold...

Public-Employee Unions Funnel Public Money to Dems

Posted on October 28, 2010
Franklin Roosevelt thought public-sector unions were a lousy idea. Do you? Who is the largest single political contributor in the 2010 campaign cycle? You can be pardoned if you answer, erroneously, that it's some new conservative group organized by Karl Rove...

The Democrats? Foreign Money

Posted on October 28, 2010
The president has some nerve complaining about campaign funds from abroad. According to Washington Democrats and their allies, the GOP has been overrun by foreign agents, surely clad in trench coats, dark sunglasses, and black wingtips — all the better for stashing microfilm...

Marrakech Journal, Part III

Posted on October 27, 2010
Do you need to, or would you like to, get up to speed? My pleasure. For the first two parts of this journal from Marrakech, go here and here. So, the meeting has started: the 'World Economic Forum on the Middle East and North Africa,' to give the formal name...

Disclosing a Dem Double Standard

Posted on October 27, 2010
Releasing details on political donors wasn?t always so important to Team Obama. A mysterious ad attacked a federal candidate with blistering ferocity, ominously distorting the office holder's record...

After November 2

Posted on October 27, 2010
If Republicans want to keep power, they are going to have to show the courage to make some very, very tough decisions. Although the polls are still in flux, it looks increasingly likely that Republicans will win a big victory next Tuesday...

Unindicted Coconspirators

Posted on October 27, 2010
The issue isn?t the coconspirator list, it?s the evidence. Much has been made of an appeals-court decision to expunge references to several U.S. Muslim groups from a list of unindicted co-conspirators in a terrorism-financing case...

The Midterm Election That Restored America

Posted on October 27, 2010
Warning to Republicans hoping to take control of Congress: A single ill-considered law can undo much of the good you will do. It's not often that a midterm election changes the direction of the United States...

Turning Arkansas Red

Posted on October 27, 2010
Will the GOP win a House seat it last held during Reconstruction? Rep. Marion Berry (D., Ark.) said he urged President Obama not to force conservative Democrats like him to march 'off into that swamp' by supporting unpopular bills such as health-care reform and cap-and-trade legislation...

The Left?s Voter-Fraud Whitewash

Posted on October 27, 2010
Worries about election fraud are anything but overblown. Denial isn't just a river in Egypt. It's the Democrats' coping mechanism for midterm-election voter fraud. Faced with multiple reports of early-voting irregularities and election shenanigans across the country, left-wing groups are playing dumb, deaf, and blind...

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