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  • Illustration: Isolationist by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

    BLANKLEY: GOP is not isolationist

    Sen. John McCain, whose life is a continuing exemplar of the American heroic ideal, regretfully has got it quite wrong when he says that growing GOP opposition to the Libyan and Afghan wars is evidence of isolationism.


  • Jordan Sekulow, policy director for the American Center for Law and Justice, wrote in a letter to NBC that the network "offended millions of Americans by cutting the phrase 'under God' from the Pledge of Allegiance" during its U.S. Open coverage. (Photo courtesy of the American Center for Law and Justice)

    Inside the Beltway

    Despite a mea culpa, NBC is not off the hot seat for cutting "under God" from the Pledge of Allegiance, not once but twice, during a video montage during the recent U.S. Open coverage.


  • Illustration by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

    DE BORCHGRAVE: News that was eaten by Weinergate

    The late Stephen Ambrose, the noted author of World War II heroics, put it best of all when he said, "God gave man a penis and a brain, but only enough blood to run one at a time."


  • ASSOCIATED PRESS
Texas Gov. Rick Perry acknowledges the crowd before speaking at the Republican Leadership Conference in New Orleans on Saturday. Mr. Perry spoke from a script in a departure from his usual practice of moving around the stage and making eye contact.

    Bachmann generates buzz; Perry fails big expectations

    The expected emergence of Texas Gov. Rick Perry as the clear challenger to presidential nomination front-runner Mitt Romney never materialized at the annual Republican Leadership Conference here over the weekend.


  • ** FILE ** In this Jan. 15, 2008, file photo, Republican presidential hopeful former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks to supporters after winning the Michigan primary in Southfield, Mich. Romney makes his first campaign swing through Michigan this week since officially kicking off his 2012 campaign six days ago. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)

    CURL: Veep blunder in '08 might be right pick for Romney

    In the summer of 2008, Republican Sen. John McCain was not doing so good. He had gone from front-runner status against presumed Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Rodham Clinton to badly trailing an obscure first-term senator from Illinois.


  • CURRENT TV
Ready to rumble: Keith Olbermann's progressive news and opinion show premiers on Current TV on Monday night.

    Inside the Beltway

    Disgraceful, pathetic, scumbags, offensive, outrage, incredible, "let's boycott."


  • Texas GOP scraps straw poll

    First former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney said he would skip all Republican Presidential straw polls, and now the Texas Republican Party says it won't hold a straw poll — thanks to a lack of interest expressed by the candidates.


  • Inside Politics

    A bill requiring 500,000 public workers in New Jersey to shoulder a significantly larger share of the costs for their health care and pension benefits and take the issue off the bargaining table has advanced in the Legislature over staunch objections from organized labor.


  • Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (right) and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich share a laugh and acknowledge the audience before the first New Hampshire Republican presidential debate at St. Anselm College in Manchester on Monday. Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota (left), officially declared her candidacy during the evening. (Associated Press)

    GOP candidates for president don't embrace Bush years

    The Republican field of White House hopefuls have been gun-shy about mentioning President George W. Bush by name, but they've been more than happy about taking aim at his policies - a strategy that suggests the smartest way to become the 45th president is to run away from the 43rd.


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