Topic - George W. Bush

• WILLIAMS: Conservatives win elections

  Democrats are, and have always been, getting their way on taxing and spending. Here's proof of that: Government spending went up in 2011, despite the debt-ceiling showdown over the summer and at least three potential government shutdowns.

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  Romney wins The Washington Times/CPAC Straw Poll

  Mitt Romney won The Washington Times/CPAC Presidential Straw Poll on Saturday, and also nipped Rick Santorum as the top choice of conservatives nationwide, according to a new version of the poll conducted for the first time this year that suggests Mr. Romney retains strong support among self-identified conservatives.

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  HANSON: Iran 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0

  In the manner that Jimmy Carter's reset foreign policy crashed in 1980 with the communists entering Afghanistan and Central America and American hostages taken in Iran, and was followed by a suddenly tough, new Carter Doctrine, the Obama administration likewise is forced to reset its policy.

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  WOLF: Time for a Romneycare mea culpa

  Conservative voters have a message for the Republican establishment: Not so fast. The Washington-knows-best GOP insiders who gave us John McCain, George W. Bush, Bob Dole and George H.W. Bush are now pushing Mitt Romney. Conservative voters are pushing back. Hard.

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  KUHNER: End of the Constitution

  Is America sliding toward autocratic rule? This is the essential question of Barack Obama's presidency. Mr. Obama vowed to "fundamentally transform" the United States. Despite his incompetence and economic failure, the president is making good on his central promise: the destruction of our constitutional republic.

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  Official: 10 states get education waiver

  President Obama on Thursday will free 10 states from the strict and sweeping requirements of the No Child Left Behind law, giving leeway to states that promise to improve how they prepare and evaluate students, The Associated Press has learned.

• Romney isn't the one

  I must express my frustration and despair over the deceit in this election year of the mainstream media, as well as the gullibility of the "moderate Republican" establishment.

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  Worried conservatives descend on Washington's CPAC

  Bound by a common desire to deny President Obama a second term, restive activists gathering Thursday for the 39th annual Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington find themselves lacking a clear champion in the suddenly scrambled Republican race to choose an alternative.

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  EDITORIAL: Clean green fraud

  The spectacular failure of Solyndra opened a lot of eyes. Yet the bankrupt solar panel manufacturer is far from the only fly-by-night outfit to take advantage of the current "green energy" fad. No program is more ripe for abuse than the renewable fuel standards set by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

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  No cigar: Economic embargo on Cuba turns 50

  When it started, American teenagers were doing the twist, the United States had yet to put a man into orbit around the Earth, and a first-class U.S. postage stamp cost 4 cents.

• CURL: Obama's made-up jobless numbers

  When it comes to the unemployment rate, it's nice to be president.

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  NUGENT: The Great Keystone XL Pipeline Massacre

  President Obama's decision to put a bullet in the back of the head of the Keystone XL pipeline is all the proof you need to know that his modus operandi is to sidle up to environmental green-energy crackpots instead of creating thousands of American jobs and honestly pursuing energy independence for America.

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  LAMBRO: Obama's recipe for poverty

  The Congressional Budget Office gave us a forecast Tuesday of a frightening fiscal catastrophe that threatens to engulf the government in a sea of debt.

• Senators join suits on recess appointments

  Republican senators said this week they will file papers supporting lawsuits trying to overturn President Obama's recess appointments and demanding that the Senate's top Democrat explain his own change of heart on the constitutional questions raised by the president's move.

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  Palestinians hurl shoes at visiting U.N. chief

  Palestinians tried to block the U.N. chief from entering the Gaza Strip and flung shoes at his armored convoy on Thursday, the second day of Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's mission to the region to keep informal peace talks alive.

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