Is Pawlenty the Dukakis of 2012?
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on May 15th, 2011 4:31 am by HL
Is Pawlenty the Dukakis of 2012?
Jonathan Bernstein, The Plum Line
Why isn’t Tim Pawlenty pulling away from the GOP field?That’s the biggest mystery in GOP nomination politics right now. After all, the current field includes only Pawlenty and Mitt Romney as plausible nominees, and Romney remains highly suspect among many important Republican groups because of his past positions on a wide range of issues — most seriously, in my view, on abortion-related policy. And that’s on top of the concern that his religion will cause problems with some voters.
The Delusional Vocabulary of the ‘Arab Spring’
Andrew McCarthy, NRO
Screaming “With our blood and soul, we will defend you, Islam,” jihadists stormed the Virgin Mary Church in northwest Cairo last weekend. They torched the Coptic Christian house of worship, burned the nearby homes of two Copt families to the ground, attacked a residential complex, killed a dozen people, and wounded more than 200: just another day in this spontaneous democratic uprising by Muslim hearts yearning for freedom.In the delusional vocabulary of the “Arab Spring,” this particular episode is known as a sectarian…
Politicians, Not Immigration System, Are Broken
Greg Kane, Examiner
Wanted: an American president who knows the difference between a rule and a law.Such a president one Barack Hussein Obama is not. Last week, I was giving the president mad props for the way he handled that track-down-find-and-kill-Osama-bin-Laden thing. And he deserved those props.
