Greg Pierce

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"When [Venezuelan President] Hugo Chavez makes a personal appeal to Washington for help, as he did 11 days ago, it raises serious questions about the signals that President Barack Obama is sending to the hemisphere's most dangerous dictator," Wall Street Journal columnist Mary Anastasia O'Grady wrote Monday.

July 21, 2009

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"When the president has a health care plan, I'll be happy to support it, but he doesn't have one right now," Sen. Mary L. Landrieu of Louisiana told reporters.

July 20, 2009

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END OF THE ROAD

July 17, 2009

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"Democratic Gov. Jon Corzine of New Jersey is being dragged down by the weak economy. Up for re-election this November, a new Quinnipiac University poll finds him trailing former federal prosecutor Chris Christie by 53 percent to 41 percent among likely voters," John Fund writes at www.opinion journal.com.

July 16, 2009

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"With Speaker [Nancy] Pelosi caught in the web of her own deceit over what the CIA told her about 'torture,' and the Obama administration in the middle of its latest 180-degree reversal over CIA interrogators Attorney General [Eric H. Holder Jr.] is now considering prosecutions despite Obama's promise of no prosecutions), Democrats have trumped up a charge that the CIA, on the orders of Vice President Dick Cheney, failed to notify Congress that it was contemplating - not implementing, but essentially brainstorming about - plans to kill or capture top al Qaeda figures," Andrew C. McCarthy writes at www.nationalreview.com.

July 15, 2009

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By all appearances, the CIA had it in for the George W. Bush administration.

July 14, 2009

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"Say, did you hear the one about the congressman who was asked to do his job? Talk about funny - this will crack you up!" Boston Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby writes.

July 13, 2009

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FRIENDS OF BARACK

July 10, 2009

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"What's odd is that when the stimulus bill was under consideration, the president said there was no time for a real debate. Why the need for speed if the bill wouldn't begin to take effect for months? This seemed like a rhetorical trick designed to deflect criticism from what was a questionable bill," Jay Cost writes in a blog at www.realclearpolitics.com.

July 9, 2009

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"Dwight D. Eisenhower famously said that 'in preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless but planning is indispensable.' Robert S. McNamara, who spent many years thinking about the Vietnam War, first as an architect and then as a critic (and getting it wrong on both ends), was a man who believed mainly in plans," Wall Street Journal columnist Bret Stephens writes.

July 8, 2009

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"Last week, we discovered that the state of California will gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today," Kevin Hassett writes at www.bloomberg.com, borrowing a line from the Wimpy character in the Popeye cartoons.

July 7, 2009

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"Having witnessed the anarchy, chaos and lack of leadership that has engulfed the [New York] state Capitol during the past month, I have a painful confession to make," New York Post Albany Bureau Chief Fredric U. Dicker writes.

July 6, 2009

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"The rubber hit the road in Congress last Friday, but it wasn't a transportation bill or a car-company bailout. It was the House vote on 'climate change,' which would still be known as 'global warming' if average temperatures had not inconveniently failed to go up over the past 11 years," former Sen. Rick Santorum, Pennsylvania Republican, writes in the Philadelphia Inquirer.

July 3, 2009

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"Only the Senate and House Republicans can save Obama now by compromising and lending his extremist legislation the veneer of bipartisanship in order to remove it as a political issue," Dick Morris writes in the Hill newspaper.

July 2, 2009

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"For a president who came into office literally selling the Audacity of Hope - not just for Americans but for all mankind - his Iran policy can so far be summed up as the timidity of 'realism.' That's realism as a theory of international relations that prescribes a foreign policy based on ostensibly rational calculations of the national interest and assumes that other nations act in similarly rational fashion," Wall Street Journal columnist Bret Stephens writes.

July 1, 2009

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Hugo Chavez's coalition-building efforts suffered a setback [Sunday] when the Honduran military sent its president packing for abusing the nation's constitution," Wall Street Journal columnist Mary Anastasia O'Grady writes.

June 30, 2009

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"We're hearing that South Dakota Sen. John Thune has locked up support to replace Sen. John Ensign as chairman of the Senate Republican Policy Committee," Paul Bedard writes in the Washington Whispers column at usnews.com.

June 19, 2009

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus speech on Sunday, "in which he reversed his long-standing position on Palestine and said he would be willing to work toward the eventual creation of a Palestinian state, has met with almost no opposition in Israel," Meyrav Wurmser writes at National Review Online (www.nationalreview.com).

June 18, 2009

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A plan by ABC News to run an "infomercial" in support of President Obama's health care plan troubles at least one former White House press secretary.

June 17, 2009

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"Don't blink: The fate of the world's most costly health care system will be shaped in the next six weeks. A leading indicator will be reactions to a report in a few days by people who have no vote on it,"Albert R. Hunt writes at www.bloomberg.com.

June 16, 2009