Mitt Romney May Win By Default
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on October 21st, 2011 4:31 am by HL
Mitt Romney May Win By Default
Mark Barabak, Los Angeles Times
After a concentrated burst of campaigning, the GOP presidential race has been distilled to a simple question: Can Republicans learn to live with Mitt Romney even if they don't love Mitt Romney?The former Massachusetts governor is certainly not a lock to face President Obama in November 2012.
Economic Disappointment of “Generation O”
Diana Furchtgott-Roth, RCM
WASHINGTON–Yet another resumé arrived in my email box this week, from a young man who graduated with a BA in economics and a minor in math last May, and has yet to find a job. He's a graduate of York College of Pennsylvania, with summer job experience as an engineering technician at the Patuxent River Naval Air Station in Maryland.Unable to find a job in an economy with persistently high unemployment because of weak job growth, Anthony Lewis is now looking for an unpaid internship. As a new entrant to the labor force he doesn't get unemployment insurance. He's just looking…
Gaddafi Killed as Sirte Is Overrun
Sheridan & Birnbaum, Washington Post
Former Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi was killed Thursday after revolutionary fighters overran his last loyalist stronghold and NATO aircraft attacked a stream of vehicles leaving the city.A U.S. drone and French fighter jets fired on the disorganized convoy leaving Sirte, which is Gaddafi’s home town and was his loyalists’ last redoubt, according to NATO officials. It is not clear whether the airstrikes struck Gaddafi’s vehicle, the officials said.
Occupy Wall Street Certainly No Tea Party Movement
Matt Kibbe, Forbes
The ”Occupy Wall Street” movement desperately wants to be compared to the Tea Party, because such a comparison would give the fledgling, misguided movement unearned legitimacy. But there are three key characteristics that separate OWS from the Tea Party: First, the Occupy protesters pride themselves on provocative resistance to law enforcement and in some cases violence. Second, they disrespect public and private property. Third, and most important, the Occupy movement lacks a coherent guiding philosophy.The Sept. 12, 2009 Tea Party demonstration in…
The Biden Crime Wave
David Harsanyi, The Blaze
Don’t screw around with Joe or he will smother you in twaddle.Nothing says classy like vice president Joe Biden, a man who is on the campaign trail trying to scare parents, single women and others into believing that high crime rates will ravage the nation if Republicans do not pass President Barack Obama’s union bailout package.
