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Karzai's Brother Works For the CIA

Oct 28, 2009
Islamabad Just emerged from a press conference featuring Hillary Clinton and Pakistan's Foreign Minister Qureishi. The big news here today involves terrorist attacks in Peshawar, to our northwest, and Kabul. There are 86 dead, so far, in the bom...

Ahmadinejad the Moderate?

Oct 26, 2009
The usually excellent David Sanger has a very frustrating piece of analysis in the NY Times today. He reports that a public debate has erupted in Iran over whether to accept the west's nuclear non-proliferation offer: For days now, Iran's le...

The White House and Fox News Continued

Oct 23, 2009
Let me be precise here: Fox News peddles a fair amount of hateful crap. Some of it borders on sedition. Much of it is flat out untrue. But I don't understand why the White House would give such poisonous helium balloons as Glenn Beck and Sean Ha...

Bill Frist on Health Bill: I'd Vote For It

Oct 2, 2009
Or so the former Senate Republican Leader, a surgeon who has written a new book on health care, told me a few minutes ago in an interview. Were he still in the Senate, "I would end up voting for it," he said. "As leader, I would take...

Barack Obama, Olympic (Committee) Bound

Sep 28, 2009
The marketing of Chicago's 2016 Olympic bid has hinged considerably on the international celebrity of Barack Obama and his enthusiasm for the project. In a video address to the International Olympic Committee in June, Obama's senior adviser a...

The Bishops Respond

Dec 10, 2009
Asked--and answered. It sounds like the Catholic bishops conference won't need time to consider whether to oppose health reform because of objections to coverage for abortion services. A handful of Catholic leaders, led by USCCB president Cardinal...

The Coming Deficit War: Why You Will Be Paying More To Uncle Sam (Or Getting Less From Him)

Dec 10, 2009
The New Republic's Noam Scheiber has a piece up this morning describing the bipolar economic pressures that the White House is now struggling with: the need for more stimulus spending vs. the need for less deficit spending. (I also have a piece in the...

Between Furious and Astounded

Dec 10, 2009
That's where bailout watchdog Elizabeth Warren finds herself these days. She talked about that and more this morning on C-SPAN's "Washington Journal":

A Noble Lecture

Dec 10, 2009
Oslo How does a rookie President, having been granted the Nobel Peace Prize, go about earning it? Well, he can start by giving the sort of Nobel lecture that Barack Obama just did, an intellectually rigorous and morally lucid speech that balanced the...

Barack Obama's Nobel Prize Speech Transcript

Dec 10, 2009
As delivered today at Oslo City Hall, in Oslo, Norway. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, distinguished members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, citizens of America, and citizens of the world: I receive this honor with deep gratitude and great...




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  AS AN ARDENT CANADIAN OBSERVER ONE I CAN ENVISION A BLACK CLOUD SETTLING UPON THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. AMERICANS YOU NEED TO AVOID BEING PULLED INTO A BLENDER OF MOSTLY IRRELEVANT FACTS. WHAT WE HAVE HERE IS A POPULARITY CONTEST WHICH HAS NO REGARD FOR THE IMPORTANT CHARACTERISTICS OF A NEW LEADER. "CHANGE" IS NOTHING MORE THAN A CATCH-WORD IN THE WELL-CHOSEN CATEGORIES AS PUT FORWARD BY THE BACKROOM POWERBROKERS OF B.O.'S CAMPAIGN. THESE POLITICALLY FLAVOURED IDEALS MAY BE WANTED BY THE AMERICAN PEOPLE BUT HE(B.O)WILL NOT BE ABLE TO DELIVER ANY OF THOSE ENTICING IDEAS. THE AFRICAN QUEEN OF POPULARIZING TACTICS HAS TAKEN UPON HERSELF TO BUY AN AFRO-AMERICAN PRESIDENT ,AS SHE HAS SEEMINGLY JUST DISCOVERED HER ROOTS, AND WITH HER ENORMOUS WEALTH AND MANIPULATIVE LOBYISTS IS ABOUT OT FEIST UPON T
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