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In the War on Terror, Liberals are more Dangerous than Muslims
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In a recent commentary, former New York Mayor Ed Koch -- a Democrat with at least half his brain intact (which makes him the leading intellectual light of his party) -- asked rhetorically, "Why do so many Americans refuse to face the fact that our country is at war with international terrorism?"
Because they're liberals?
During the Spanish Civil War, as the climatic battle for Madrid approached, the nationalist leader Francisco Franco told a reporter: "I have four columns marching on Madrid and a fifth within the city ready to rise at my call." |
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Death Tax Vote: Good News, Bad News
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Dear Members and Friends,
This morning, virtually every Republican U.S. Senator stood up and fought to permanently repeal the Death Tax. They lost. But they didn’t lose by much, and they didn’t lose without a fight.
We’d like them to win, of course. But if they can’t, today was exactly the way we want them to act. And they did.
The only Republicans to vote AGAINST repealing the Death Tax were Rhode Island’s Lincoln Chafee (so liberal he actually voted against George W. Bush’s re-election in 2004) and Ohio’s George Voinovich. With Chafee in a tough primary against a conservative, pro-growth challenger right now, we mean to punish him immediately. |
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Saving the House
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By David Brooks
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/opinion/editorialsandoped/
oped/columnists/davidbrooks/index.html?inline=nyt-per
Published: January 5, 2006
I don't know what's more pathetic, Jack Abramoff's sleaze or Republican paralysis in the face of it. Abramoff walks out of a D.C. courthouse in his pseudo-Hasidic homburg, and all that leading Republicans can do is promise to return his money and remind everyone that some Democrats are involved in the scandal, too.
That's a great G.O.P. talking point: some Democrats are so sleazy, they get involved with the likes of us.
If Republicans want to emerge from this affair with their self-respect or electoral prospects intact, they need to get in front of it with a comprehensive reform offensive.
First, they need to hold new leadership elections. As Newt Gingrich and Vin Weber told me yesterday, Tom DeLay needs to take care of his own legal problems and give up the dream of returning as majority leader. |
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Football, Warfare, and Public Policy
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By: John Armor
[BB 496, 29 December, 798 words]
Even political junkies like me take breaks from news and the Internet.
In the middle of a football break, I realized the football analogy is
false for American politics. So, I reread Sun Tzu's "Art of War" and
wrote this column.
Sun Tzu wrote that all warfare depends on deception. There is some
deception in football. Occasionally it controls the outcome. I
remember acutely a game that my high school lost in 1959, because I
was deceived on the same play, twice. |
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Update from the House Republican Study Committee (RSC):
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Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN), Chairman
The House was out of session last week and will return on December 6, 2005.
"You can't get your finger on the problem if you've got it in the wind."
--Former House Majority Leader, Dick Armey (R-TX)
Contents--December 5, 2005
* Capitol Christmas Tree
* Budget Reconciliation
* Conservative Activity
* The Money Monitor |
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It's My Party...
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By: Dick Armey
This op-ed orginially ran in THE WALL STREET JOURNAL on November 29, 2005; Page A18.
In all my years in politics, I've never sensed such anger and frustration from our volunteers -- those who do the hard work of door-to-door mobilization that Republican candidates depend on to get elected. Across the nation, wherever I go to speak with them, their refrain is the same: "I can't tell a dime's worth of difference between Republicans and Democrats." Our base rightly expects Republicans to govern by the principles -- lower taxes, less government and more freedom -- that got them elected. Today, with Republicans controlling both the legislative and executive branches of the federal government, there is a widening credibility gap between their political rhetoric and their public policies.
What will happen to Republicans if these freedom-loving, grassroots activists don't show up for work next fall? The elections earlier this month may be an indication of the answer. |
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An Unnatural Disaster: A Hurricane Exposes the Man-Made Disaster of the Welfare State
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By Robert Tracinski
The Intellectual Activist
09/02/05
It has taken four long days for state and federal officials to figure out how to deal with the disaster in New Orleans. I can't blame them, because it has also taken me four long days to figure out what is going on there. The reason is that the events there make no sense if you think that we are confronting a natural disaster... |
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The Mainstream Media Have No Shame
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By Jack Kelly
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
09/11/05
It is settled wisdom among journalists that the federal response to the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina was unconscionably slow... |
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The Big Easy rocked, but didn't roll
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By Mark Steyn
UK Telegraph
09/06/05
Readers may recall my words from a week ago on the approaching Katrina: "We relish the opportunity to rise to the occasion. And on the whole we do. Oh, to be sure, there are always folks who panic or loot..." |
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