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The President's Middle East Playbook
Barack Obama has achieved the impossible. He has managed to bring together secular Israelis and ultra-Orthodox Jews in a heated campaign against him.
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Breaking the Obama Code: The Green Money Machine
As a few dozen dot com billionaires gathered in a Palo Alto living room one evening in early 2007, then-Senator Obama rallied potential new donors
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ObamaCare is Tyranny, Not Legislation
What we're seeing in Washington, D.C. is not "politics as usual" with the arm twisting and "horse trading" that is typical in getting a bill passed
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No Reason for Economic Optimism
The response to the economic crisis has been bungled.
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Chris Christie's New Jersey Revolution
When the state's leading newspaper, The Star-Ledger, can post a headline that reads, "Action Leaves Democrats Seething," you know the right person is in charge.
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A Man Named Rick
It is obscene to hear the President boasting about how many jobs he has created or saved when in fact jobs continue to disappear and while decent men like Rick sit outside in the cold, asking only for a chance to work.
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Obama Is a Stranger in a Strange Land
Obama has been called a Citizen of the World. While liberals find this appealing, what it actually means is that Obama has come from nowhere and belongs nowhere.
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Bill Maher to God: Stand Aside for ObamaCare
The way Bill Maher sees it, resistance to ObamaCare is all God's fault.
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Hanks, Hollywood, and History
Surely even Tom Hanks can grasp the pure evil of Saddam Hussein.
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The Subtext of the Obama-Israel Dispute
For excellent reasons, Jews are particularly sensitive to attempts to limit their "natural growth" and the area in which they can live.
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Neo-Soviet Russia and America
As Russia moves toward neo-Soviet brutality, Obama has suggested resetting only U.S. attitudes towards Russia -- in other words, appeasement.
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The Keynesian Fraud
Keynesian economics is mostly a fraud and always has been. It has little theoretical basis and no empirical support, but its fans include many dependent on the big-government spending it justifies as stimulative.
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America's Political Crisis
We are told that there is no time to think and we must act immediately -- Washington will do the thinking for us.
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Obama to Israel: 'Drop Dead'
It took awhile -- fourteen months, to be exact -- but both the ADL and AIPAC have issued very solid statements condemning the president's new verbal war on Israel.
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The Coffee Party Con
The new and much-publicized Coffee Party movement sports a fairy tale narrative about being a spontaneous uprising of concerned Americans.
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Soros's Deal
George Soros has another terrible idea, one that will make him even richer.
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Hope(fund) and Change: Breaking the Obama Code
Always looking ahead for the next stage, Barack Obama launched his Hopefund PAC on January 25, 2005, twenty days after he was sworn into the U.S. Senate.
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Wake-Up Call for the Tea Party
Tea Partiers who think they're onto something special are right. In terms of competing with the organized left, though, they're light-years and hundreds of millions of dollars behind.
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Why the Rules Matter
Back in Bush era it was Republicans that got fed up with the rules. Democrats in the US Senate were filibustering conservative judge nominees. Now the Democrats are in power and they are frustrated with the rules.
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