Month: January 2010

White Defenders

In a private conversation reported in a new book, Reid described Obama during the 2008 presidential campaign as a “light-skinned” African-American “with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.” I...

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Daily Drivel

Can the New York Times please put Maureen Dowd back behind the firewall? No Drama Obama is reticent about displays of emotion. The Spock in him needs to exert mental and emotional control. That is why he stubbornly insists on...

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Yemen Ready for Surrender to Al Qaeda

. Yemen’s president open to dialogue with al-Qaida YEMEN — Yemen’s president said he is ready to talk to al-Qaida members who renounce violence, suggesting he could show them the same kind of leniency he has...

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Obama More Effective Than LBJ?

Okay, this surprised me: President Obama set a new record last year for getting Congress to vote his way, clinching 96.7 percent of the votes on which he had clearly staked a position. That was a bit less than 4 percentage...

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