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A Runaway Ego is Barack's Blind Spot
Every political campaign has its weak spot. Every human being has his own blind spots. In politics and war, it's those blind spots that eventually make for victory or defeat.
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Obama's Berlin Transfiguration Speech
Obama's Berlin speech was the platform for his transfiguration into the presumptive victorious candidate for global leadership.
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The Stealth Bailout
Stealthily, with minimal legislative deliberation (much less media attention), a vast new claim on the United States Treasury is being enacted into law by Congressional Democrats.
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Obama's European Love Parade
More than 200,000 Germans turned out in Berlin on July 24 to hear a carefully stage-managed Barack Obama tell them exactly what they wanted to hear:
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The Bubble of Obama Supremacy
Barack Obama is riding within the biggest fantasy bubble this side of Oz. You know what happens to bubbles.
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A Murderer Acclaimed as a Hero
Is there any place other than in the psychopathology of the Arab world that a Kuntar--freed by Israel last week in exchange for mutilated corpses of two abducted soldiers -- could be acclaimed a "hero"?
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Obama on Jerusalem, Properly Phrased
Barack Obama's continuing explanations of his AIPAC speech, in which he said Jerusalem "must remain undivided," raise more questions than they answer. Obama added yet another explanation yesterday in Sderot.
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The Complex Success of the Surge
The "surge" in Iraq sure appears to have worked. But before we give all the credit to the "more boots on the ground" stompers and all the blame to Rumsfeld and the neo-cons, let's take a second look
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Obama's Berlin Moment
Obama's Premature Inauguration Syndrome is still giving him trouble, witness the mass Obama rally scheduled for Berlin's SiegessSaeule or Victory Column
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Eliminate the Middleman
Once again villainous speculators have emerged as a scapegoat. There's a lot of history to this practice.
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Big Media Puts Its Money Where Its Mouth Is
To prove bias in the media, just use an old journalistic canon -- although one rarely used for this purpose. Follow the money.
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The McCain Administration
What can John McCain do to get conservatives to vote for him, enthusiastically and in numbers, while maybe even gaining votes from independents and sane liberals? I think I have a way.
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Breeding Evil: Hezb'allah's Children
Whole generations have come of age without education, indoctrinated in an ideology of Islamic fanaticism and blind hatred, kept destitute and embittered, the most efficient way to breed terrorists.
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The AP's New Man on the 'Race and Ethnicity' Beat
The Associated Press just announced an important change in a high-profile news beat that's overseen by its national desk -- a beat called "race and ethnicity."
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Republicans Could Tap a Gusher of Support Off the California Coast
California's Democrats have long opposed efforts to tap that state's (and other states') vast offshore oil reserves. This spells opportunity for Republicans.
