Elections 2008

PJM Political 04/24/10: Bill Clinton Smells The Tea, Gets The Vapors

Saturday, April 24th, 2010 - by Ed Driscoll

Why has former President Bill Clinton recently reminded the public of the disastrous circumstances that led to Timothy McVeigh's horrific bombing of the Oklahoma Federal Building in 1995? Glenn Reynolds explains to producer Ed Driscoll. Plus James Lileks, Tony Blankley, Tucker Carlson, and much more. Hosted by the Vodkapundit, Stephen Green.

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Rush Limbaugh, Patriot

Friday, April 23rd, 2010 - by Roger Kimball

To hear the left tell it, Rush Limbaugh is one of those bitter neanderthals addicted to “guns and religion” that candidate Obama warned of in 2008. Yet he's in the Wall Street Journal sounding like a cross between James Madison and George Orwell. How can that be?

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‘Question Authority’? Dude, That’s sooo 2008

Friday, April 23rd, 2010 - by James Lileks

Then: dissent=patriotic. Now: sedition. Then: opposition to Bush=principled and civilized. Now: opposition to Obama=opposition to the very nature of civilization itself.

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Why Is the L.A. Times Burying the Obama/Khalidi Tape?

Thursday, April 22nd, 2010 - by Roger L Simon

2010's answer to the Pentagon Papers or another Al Capone's vault? If the Rashid Khalidi videotape exonerates Obama, the Times should be anxious to publish it. If it doesn’t, they've done a public service. Here's how we can give them a nudge.

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Humor vs. Contempt: Obama and the Question of Character

Tuesday, April 20th, 2010 - by Roger Kimball

What should we make of Obama’s merriment regarding America's overtaxed citizens? What does it tell us about his sense of humor? More importantly, what does it tell us about his character?

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Obama Zombies Versus Countercultural Conservatives

Saturday, April 17th, 2010 - by Orit Sklar

Talkin' 'bout my generation — and how brainwashed it's become.

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Newest Form of Racism Established: Suggesting a Ghostwriter

Tuesday, April 13th, 2010 - by Ron Radosh

David Remnick of the New Yorker takes on Obama's critics: he calls them racist.

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These Are the Smart People? Oh, Please

Friday, April 9th, 2010 - by Kyle-Anne Shiver

Yes, we have a highly educated, Ivy League president. Yes, we have a whole flock of back-patting, self-congratulating, fully credentialed staff. But smart ... ?

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Will England’s Conservative Party Return to Parliamentary Power?

Friday, April 9th, 2010 - by Amanda Bowman

And if so, how does it impact the "special relationship" between England and America and its Obama-era strains?

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Twilight of the Gods: CNN’s Current, Pitiful State

Wednesday, April 7th, 2010 - by Ed Driscoll

Welcome though it may be, one CNN journalist's reminder that the tea parties aren't seething hotbeds of racism is too little, too late to repair CNN's reputation with half of its potential audience.

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Obama as Undergrad

Tuesday, April 6th, 2010 - by Michael Ledeen

What happens when the stereotypical American undergrad from the stereotypical Ivy League college in the age of PC becomes POTUS?

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Let’s Do It Right This Time

Monday, April 5th, 2010 - by Bernard Chapin

Hopefully, Republican ringleaders will learn from recent history and internalize the lesson that the political left — as opposed to conservative ideas and initiatives — are the real enemy and one that must be defeated.

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Is Netanyahu ‘Apologizing to the Obama Administration’?

Sunday, April 4th, 2010 - by Ruthie Blum Leibowitz

Part II of a two-part interview with Moshe Arens — former Israeli defense minister, foreign minister, and ambassador to the U.S. (Read Part I here. And don't miss Joe Hicks at PJTV on "Netanyahu vs. The Yahoos.")

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Is Obama Using ‘Hard Power’ to ‘Get Israel to Toe the Line’?

Saturday, April 3rd, 2010 - by Ruthie Blum Leibowitz

Part I of a two-part interview with Moshe Arens — former Israeli defense minister, foreign minister, and ambassador to the U.S.

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What Do Hispanics — and All Voters — Want? Survey Says …

Wednesday, March 17th, 2010 - by Alex Bratty

Hispanics will play an increasing role in determining the outcome of future elections. But which issues provide the most common ground for the GOP to make inroads? (Don't miss PJTV's Border Disorder: Has Obsession with Illegal Immigration Alienated Hispanic Voters from the GOP?)

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Is the Jewish Love Affair with the Democratic Party about to End?

Monday, March 15th, 2010 - by Roger L Simon

The long record that Obama has of friendship with virulent enemies of Israel has not gone unnoticed.

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Obama’s Great Gift — to Bush

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010 - by Victor Davis Hanson

Is Obama on some sort of mission to rehabilitate George Bush? His rhetoric and actions achieve the opposite effect of what was intended — sympathy for the prior president.

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Help! I’m a Constituent of Eric Massa (Or at Least I Was)

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010 - by Claudia Rosett

Massa claims, "I own this behavior." Sorry, Mr. Massa, but you were elected not to serve yourself — but to serve your constituents. (And don't miss Ed Driscoll on "Tickles of Massa Destruction.")

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PJTV: Obamafeld

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

The endless banter, the self-absorbed complaining — it sounds like Seinfeld, but with our liberal leaders, it’s just another day of the politics of meaninglessness. Watch the latest Politizoid here.

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Who Will Lead the Country Back to the Basics?

Monday, March 8th, 2010 - by Dan Miller

President Obama has shown what we don't need. Now we need to decide what we do need.

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Obama’s Dereliction of Duty

Monday, March 8th, 2010 - by Matt Patterson

While Obama continues to fiddle his atonal health care tune, the flames of war and recession and fiscal collapse rage all around him.

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You, the Greedy — Not Us, the Anointed

Sunday, March 7th, 2010 - by Victor Davis Hanson

VDH receives yet another request to protest, write a letter, give money — anything to save the state worker and his program — and forecasts the CA and USA of 2020.

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What Ever Happened to ‘Drill Baby, Drill’?

Thursday, March 4th, 2010 - by AWR Hawkins

What makes higher gasoline prices so frustrating is that it doesn’t have to be this way.

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Paul Krugman: 21st Century Howard Beale

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010 - by John Boot

Always mad as hell about something, perpetually vowing that he won’t take it any longer.

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You Can’t Keep a Good Van Down

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010 - by Ron Radosh

Given his cushy new gig at Princeton, no wonder Van Jones keeps thanking Glenn Beck.

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