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Herszenhorn & Pear, NY Times

William Greider, The Nation

Eugene Robinson, Washington Post

Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Wall Street Journal
President Barack Obama took office promising to lead from the center and solve big problems. He has exerted enormous political energy attempting to reform the nation's health-care system. But the biggest economic problem facing the nation is not health care. It's the deficit. Recently, the White House signaled that it will get serious about reducin...

S.Hayes, Weekly Standard
Increase Font SizePrinter-FriendlyEmail a FriendRespond to this articleAttorney General Eric Holder spoke with confidence and authority before the Senate Judiciary Committee last Wednesday when asked how he would prevent another attack like the one committed by Nidal Malik Hasan at Fort Hood. I think what we have to do is understand exactly what happened that led to that tr...

Mike Memoli, RealClearPolitics
CEDAR CREEK, Texas -- As Barack Obama began crafting his administration last year, the term "competence over ideology" was often used to describe the incoming president's approach. Fast forward past another election: as the top Democrat's job approval rating dipped below 50 percent and his signature first-year initiatives face increasing doubts, a bullish gr...

David Beamer, Wall Street Journal
On Wednesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee met to question Attorney General Eric Holder about his decision to prosecute Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others in criminal courts rather than military tribunals. As the father of Todd Beamer, who died on United Airlines Flight 93, I was able to attend that hearing. What transpired caused me great concern and shook m...

Rich Lowry, NRO
Oh, how the international community loves Barack Obama - loves to stiff him, play him along, and manipulate him. He's the world's celebrity ingenue, the slender naïf perpetually undone by the recalcitrance of foreign leaders.Earlier this year, in a touching exercise in diplomatic and civilizational outreach, he sent two letters to Iran's mullahs and a new year's...

William Greider, The Nation

David Broder, Washington Post
It's simply not true that America is ambivalent about everything when it comes to the Obama health plan.The day after the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) gave its qualified blessing to the version of health reform produced by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Quinnipiac University poll of a national cross section of voters reported its latest results.This pol...

Clarice Feldman, AT

Andrew Winston, Huffington Post

Tony Karon, Time

Noam Levey, Los Angeles Times

Fred Barnes, Weekly Standard
Increase Font SizePrinter-FriendlyEmail a FriendRespond to this article Back in February, President Obama met with a group of CEOs in the White House, seeking their support for his economic stimulus package. One of his chief targets was Jim Owens, the head of Caterpillar in Peoria, Illinois. The day after the session in Washington, the president flew to Peoria to spe...

John McWhorter, New Republic
It’s one of those hideous little episodes making minor headlines this week that will be forgotten by the media next week. 15-year-old Vada Vasquez of the Bronx is in a coma with a bullet in her brain, after being caught in the crossfire when a group of Bloods took aim at 19-year-old Tyrone Creighton (and succeeding; he’s in the hospital, too).The Bloods went after Creig...

Lee Siegel, The Daily Beast
Carly Fiorina's Cancer Warning by Dana GoldsteinHot Topics: Galleries, Sarah Palin, Big Fat Story, Giving Beast, Hungry Beast, Art BeastEnter your email address:Enter the recipients' email addresses, separated by commas:Message: Feng Li / Getty Images The president's approach to the 9/11 trials offers something for everyone"”and decisions on nothing. Obama may be the anti-Bush, Lee Siegel argues"”but he's failing to govern. Lord Acton once wrote that in a political system's success lie......

Jonathan Van Meter, Vogue
As Obama's surprise (and reluctant) pick for Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton brings her star power and stamina to the global stage.Jonathan Van Meter reports. Photographed by Annie Leibovitz.Truth or Dare: Cate Blanchett storms the stage in A Streetcar Named DesireAnd The Winner Is: Watch our behind-the-scenes video from the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund AwardsLittle Girl and Boy Lost: Lady Gaga, Lily Cole, and Andrew Garfield star in Vogue's haute Hansel and GretelVogue editors pick and style their favorite fall wardrobe staplesMenswear-inspired hats and mid-calf boots are the......

Walsh & Spakovsky, Heritage
The "reformers" in the White House and the House of Representatives have made all too plain their vision of the federal government's power to coerce individual Americans to make the "right" health-care choices. The highly partisan bill the House just passed includes severe penalties for individuals who do not purchase insurance approved by the federal government. By...

Mort Kondracke, Roll Call
"˜The mood of America is glum. Two-thirds of the public is dissatisfied with the way things are going in the country" and voters' anti-incumbent mood is approaching 1994 and 2006 levels, when control of Congress changed hands.So reported the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press on Nov. 11, summarizing its latest poll. Receive news alertsI think there&ap...

James Delingpole, Telegraph
Sign in or registerFriday 20 November 2009 | Blog Feed | All feedsBy James Delingpole Politics Last updated: November 20th, 200988 Comments Comment on this article If you own any shares in alternative energy companies I should start dumping them NOW. The conspiracy behind the Anthropogenic Global Warming myth (aka AGW; aka ManBearPig) has been sudd...