House Bill Lacks Broad Support,Radically Disrupts System
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on November 10th, 2009 5:31 am by HL
House Bill Lacks Broad Support,Radically Disrupts System
The Reinvention of Robert Gates
Michael Crowley, The New Republic
One afternoon in October, a blue and white jumbo jet flew high above the Pacific Ocean, approaching the international dateline. On board was the secretary of defense, Robert Gates, who was on an around-the-world trip that would end with a summit of NATO defense ministers, where the topic of the day would be Afghanistan. Gates was flying on what is often called "the Doomsday Plane," a specially outfitted 747 that looks like a bulkier Air Force One and was built to wage retaliatory nuclear war from the skies. Its hull contains metal wiring to shield its avionics from the…
GOP vs. the Obama-Pelosi Agenda
Fred Barnes, Weekly Standard
Increase Font SizePrinter-FriendlyEmail a FriendRespond to this article Republican conservatives and moderates are at each other's throats. Tea party populists are furious at President Obama and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and aren't crazy about Republicans either. Democrats haven't got a clue. There's talk of a third party. The economy is stagnant as unemployment, now 10.2 percent, climbs. It's beginning to look like the late 1970s.This is good news for Republicans–extremely good news. Today's struggles between conservatives and…
The Power of Reagan’s Four Little Words
Anthony Dolan, Wall St. Journal
Ronald Reagan would embarrass himself and the country by asking Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall, which was going to be there for decades. So the National Security Council (NSC) staff and State Department had argued for many weeks to get Reagan's now famous line removed from his June 12, 1987, Berlin speech. With a fervor and relentlessness I hadn't seen over the prior seven years even during disputes about “the ash-heap of history” or “evil empire,” they kept up the pressure until the morning Reagan spoke the line. “Is that what I think it…
