Month: March 2013

The Trip to Israel President Romney Expected to Make

Only about 10% of Israelis have a favorable opinion of US President Obama, no need to say he is visiting in a hostile environment. Obama just arrived at Tel Aviv airport. The Israeli charm offensive had started very early, the...

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Fox’s Bolling Praises Bush’s Folly

Credit where credit is due: at last a Republican conservative hack propagandist journalist is not running away from Dubya’s war record. On the contrary, Eric Bolling seems positively smitten with Bush’s presidency...

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Pessimists Get Me Down

I also noticed that Stu Rothenberg and Larry Sabato wrote bearish articles today about the Democrats’ chances of retaking the House of Representatives. I suppose we will read different iterations of those arguments for the...

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Cyprus: A Germanic Morality Tale

Cyprus is small enough not to be really significant in economic terms for the Eurozone as a whole. (Let’s treat the strategic significance of Cyprus giving exclusive gas exploration rights to Gazprom or a Mediterranean...

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Blaming Both Sides

Here’s Charlie Cook, writing a column about the woes of the Republican Party. Driving over to the Gaylord’s National Harbor Hotel and Convention Center to meet with a campaign manager Saturday afternoon, I passed a group...

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