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Time Machine: How not to pick a running mate
- (A week from today) –Sen. Barack Obama felt decidedly odd. Besides an overall queasiness, the morning meetings seemed to move in slow motion. "Once more," he asked, "what's up on finding my running mate?"
GOP must reclaim its Reagan roots
- On Election Day in 1978, Republican State Senator John Briggs of California surveyed the wreckage of his political career. Briggs was the sponsor of Proposition 6, a ban against homosexuals teaching in the Golden State's public school system. Prop. 6 had been soundly defeated.
Teaching Sudan a lesson
- Another day, another incident in which Muhammed – Peace be Upon Him – is "insulted."
Why is Disney bashing America?
- Commerce Department officials say more foreigners visited America this summer than ever before, so why would a domestic tourism industry group of major U.S. corporations issue erroneous releases to try to make people think the opposite?
Americans must start cutting back on oil
- The supplies needed to feed America’s voracious appetite for oil continue to tighten, but we have not yet done anything effective to reduce our
Private profit disguised as public health
- Federal regulation of food, often portrayed as government efforts to protect consumers from unscrupulous industry, has shown itself this month to be a club by which one business can crush its competitors.
It isn't bullying, stupid, it's the parenting
- Once again, this time in Finland, a teenage boy with Nazi fantasies went to school to kill. Calling himself Sturmgeist89 ("storm spirit"), Pekka-Eric Auvinen posted a YouTube video, entitled "Jokela High School Massacre - 11/7/2007," before killing his principal, seven students and himself.
With Sarkozy, conservatives discover new-found love of France
- Could supporters of a steadfast and muscular transatlantic Alliance ask for anything more out of this week's state visit by the new French president, the peripatetic and invigorating Nicolas Sarkozy?
Higher taxes equal less security
- Tax hikes, it seems, are back in vogue. At least in certain quarters. Congress has passed a budget resolution that would let them raise taxes by as much as $2.7 trillion over the next 10 years. So far, they've approved hiking taxes and fees by $98 billion.
What's not to like about Nicolas Sarkozy?
- Not only is the French president standing tough against Iran's nuclear ambitions and the powerful unions aiming to preserve his country's corrosive welfare state, but he also took on Lesley Stahl of "60 Minutes" when she asked him a gossipy question about his relationship with his then-wife during taped interviews.
The expanding Axis of Evil
- Remember the "Axis of Evil?" That was the label President Bush bestowed upon three countries – Iraq, Iran and North Korea –in his 2002 State of the Union Address. His rhetoric was condemned by the usual suspects, furious that he would employ such "divisive bluster," in the words of New York Observer columnist Joe Conason. Rather than being too bold, however, it appears Bush did not go far enough.