Happy Thanksgiving! We now interrupt our regularly scheduled programming for this important announcement: Pan to a raft of kids doing sit-ups, broken-field sprints, and jumping jacks. The president of the free world, dressed in a Bears jacket, catches a football ...
Read More »Fort Hood killer eludes oversensitive Army
Who’d think the U.S. Army could be seized with a sudden case of political correctness? And with regard to Muslims, no less. Imagine this: If Major Nidal M. Hasan were gay and had revealed half as much about his state ...
Read More »Republican purists scare Democrats, GOP too
There are many ways to think about Tuesday’s election, some of which are completely wrong. “The real story here is, I think, this thing is ambiguous,” White House adviser David Axelrod said. That’s true only if ambiguous is a synonym ...
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Read More »Novak was tough as nails, kind as they come
For the first few of my 12 years appearing every Saturday on CNN’s “The Capital Gang” with Bob Novak, I was afraid of him. He was fearsome grandfather, Mother Superior and the policeman in my rear-view mirror all rolled into ...
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Read More »Clinton and Sotomayor endure man-made perils
Hillary Clinton and Sonia Sotomayor have risen to the top of their professions being the best students in the class, homework always done, notebooks neat and conduct impeccable. They share the perils of their ascension: The world remains white and ...
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Read More »Ruthless Wall Street offers GM’s only hope
On Tuesday, a Chinese company, Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery Co., announced plans to acquire the rights to the Hummer from General Motors Corp. It will keep the senior management and operational team. Wow. So you like the Hummer? Step ...
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Read More »Sotomayor stokes Republican identity crisis
What’s a Republican to do? The president has gone and nominated a U.S. Supreme Court justice who was named to the federal bench by George H.W. Bush and twice approved by the Senate, has a movie-ready life story and even ...
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Read More »Tim Geithner deals Wall Street a can’t-lose poker hand
I feel like Rush Limbaugh now, because I really want certain people to fail: George W. Bush’s former economic adviser, Lawrence Lindsey, Nobel Prize-winning economists Paul Krugman and Columbia University Professor Joseph Stiglitz. All of them say the U.S. Treasury’s ...
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Read More »Inside man Geithner shines when he’s offstage
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner never looks so tall as when he’s sitting down. Sketching a diagram about the nation’s banks on a legal pad in Bloomberg Television’s green room last week, he showed he’s at his most impressive when the ...
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Read More »Rush relishes role cowing Republican Party
Rush is wrong. There, I said it. It wasn’t so hard. Not for me, anyway. If I were Katie Couric, I wouldn’t be so foolish. Rush Limbaugh could feast for a week on a big network anchor like her. And ...
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Read More »Geithner, Holder reap rewards for failure
Barack Obama has promised many times that he will have the most accountable administration in history. But early on, he missed two opportunities to show he means what he says. First, Tim Geithner's nomination to head the Treasury Department should have been withdrawn once his weaknesses were apparent. Second, Obama should have never picked Eric Holder to be attorney general.
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