Greg Pierce

Inside Politics

"This is rather extraordinary," Stephen F. Hayes writes in a blog at www.weeklystandard.com. "The Obama administration - the self-declared most transparent administration in history - has released interrogation memos that included descriptions of the valuable intelligence obtained by using coercive techniques."

April 22, 2009

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"For the national media, Barack Obama isn't merely the president of the United States. He's so much more than that," Stuart Rothenberg writes in Roll Call.

April 21, 2009

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President Obama "must take care when he attempts to score cheap political points on national security issues, as he did last week with his unnecessary decision to release previously classified details of the legal opinions authorizing the use of the extreme interrogation techniques - torture, to you and me - that were drawn up by the Bush administration," London Telegraph columnist Con Coughlin writes.

April 20, 2009

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"Although it was good theater, what happened on Tax Day was about something more than criticizing a liberal president," Chicago Tribune columnist John Kass writes.

April 17, 2009

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Left-wing protesters at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill forced former Rep. Tom Tancredo to flee a campus building Tuesday night.

April 16, 2009

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"The American people have had enough of convoluted, indecipherable financial schemes and the opportunists who exploit them," William O'Keefe writes at www.usnews.com.

April 15, 2009

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April 14, 2009

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"Blame Joe Biden. His warning last fall that it will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama with 'an international crisis' has spawned a cottage industry of premature declarations,'" New York Daily News columnist Michael Goodwin writes.

April 13, 2009

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Sen. Christopher J. Dodd's standing with Connecticut voters continues to plunge as a poll released Thursday showed that only one in three state voters approve of his job performance.

April 3, 2009

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'I can make a firm pledge ... no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase.' Remember that? It was Barak Obama campaigning to become president last Sept. 12 in Dover, N.H.,Brad Schiller wrote Wednesday in the Wall Street Journal.

April 2, 2009

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"Having undergone training by students of Saul Alinsky, President Obama knows the value of a good enemy," John J. Pitney Jr. writes at National Review Online (www.nationalreview.com).

April 1, 2009

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”Some of the demonstrators in this week's G-20 protest jamboree are demanding the 'overthrow' of capitalism. Well, there are lots of things than can be done to 'capitalism' - it can be undermined, suppressed, sabotaged, even outlawed - but it cannot be 'overthrown' because in itself, it has no power,” Janet Daley writes in the London Telegraph.

March 31, 2009

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"Once you begin haggling over the details - it's OK prior to 60 days before an election but not after, a 90-minute movie might be OK but not a 30-second commercial, this money is good but that money is corrupting - you have lost sight of the fact that the fundamental premise of the whole damn thing is a fraud perpetrated by charlatans against liberty and democracy," Las Vegas Review-Journal editor Thomas Mitchell writes.

March 30, 2009

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"Republican political operatives are positively euphoric about the AIG bonus scandal's impact on the already fading re-election hopes of Sen. Chris Dodd," Wall Street Journal editorialist Stephen Moore writes at www.opinionjournal.com.

March 27, 2009

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UPDATED: "The stock market was intoxicated with the Obama administration's toxic asset plan. Whatever its contempt for the upper middle class that acquires wealth through salaried work and bonuses, Team Obama still has eyes for the hedge fund class, which will be ladled out taxpayer dollars to make one-way bets on problematic bank assets," Wall Street Journal columnist Holman W. Jenkins Jr. writes.

March 26, 2009

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"The Obama budget envisions an explosion of economic growth as the country recovers from the current recession - more than 4 percent a year from 2011 through 2013. This will supposedly be sufficient to halve the $1.75 trillion deficit it projects for 2009. But there is something off here," writes at www.commentarymagazine.com.

March 25, 2009

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”Oh-oh, looks like more tax troubles for another Democrat in Washington,” Andrew Malcolm writes in a blog at latimes.com.

March 24, 2009

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"'Liberty' isn't a word you'll find in President Obama's Iranian New Year message to 'the people and leaders of the Islamic Republic of Iran.' Nor is 'freedom.' Nor 'democracy.' Nor 'human rights,'" William Kristol writes in the Weekly Standard.

March 23, 2009

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"Douglas Holtz-Eakin wasn't very good at constructing an economic blueprint for John McCain's campaign, but he's a pretty good analyst," Jennifer Rubin writes in a blog at www.commentarymagazine .com.

March 20, 2009

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"Sometimes political movements, as they grow old, become arrogant, insular and dismissive of criticism," Ramesh Ponnuru writes in National Review.

March 19, 2009