Presidential Possibilities By Larry J. Sabato
Precisely two years from today, America will be inaugurating a president. But much sooner, the full-blown contest for the White House will begin.
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January 20, 2011
January 19, 2011
Sick People By Susan Estrich
I got my first threat when I was a young law professor. The campus newspaper reported that in teaching criminal law to first-year students, I was not only including rape in the curriculum (unheard of at the time), but was actually telling students of my own experience in the criminal justice system as a rape victim and how it shaped my views on the law. I thought it was a nice piece. My mother thought I was out of my mind. Both appear to be true.
January 19, 2011
How to Combat an Arrogant China? By Lawrence Kudlow
Is there a new Cold War developing between China and the United States? That’s a question hovering over President Hu Jintao and his entourage as they come to Washington to discuss military, trade, and financial flash points with the Obama administration.
January 19, 2011
Avoid GOP Timidity in 2011 By Tony Blankley
What should the congressional GOP's policy objectives be for the next two years regarding federal deficits and prosperity?
January 18, 2011
Stocks Say We’re Healing; Prices Say Look Out By Lawrence Kudlow
U.S. economic recovery continues to look better, according to the stock market and a boatload of economic stats last week. Stocks jumped 133 points on the Dow, which hit a 30-month high following its seventh straight weekly rise. Early fourth-quarter profit reports from Alcoa, Intel, and JPMorgan all beat expectations. Share prices are back to June 2008 levels, before the financial meltdown.
January 18, 2011
The Orphaned Left By Dick Morris and Eileen McGann
For the past three years, the left and Obama have been indistinguishable, joined at the hip in a marriage of ideology and, where that failed, of convenience. Now the marriage is on the rocks and some see a divorce in the offing.
January 17, 2011
A Sigh of Relief When Mad and Evil People Are Foiled By Michael Barone
In his superb speech in Tucson, Ariz., Wednesday evening, Barack Obama did great service to the nation. He put to rest the libel that political incivility is responsible for the Tucson shootings. He did so with three words that he added to the written text: "It did not."
January 16, 2011
What Makes Brown Think He Can Get a Tax Increase? By Debra J. Saunders
Can Jerry Brown do it?
January 14, 2011
Going Down in an Up Economy By Froma Harrop
In the typical economic downturn, Americans thrown out of work make a deal with Euthenia, the Greek goddess of prosperity. They say (in their heads): We will get through this. We'll move in with family, find any part-time job. All we want is an assurance that good times will eventually return for hardworking people like us.
January 14, 2011
Blood Libel By Susan Estrich
Alan Dershowitz isn't offended. He says it's OK for Sarah Palin to invoke one of the most anti-Semitic images of our time in attacking those who have been critical of her putting crosshairs over the name of the congresswoman who was later shot.
January 14, 2011
How We Enable Crimes of Insanity By Joe Conason
The deranged expression on the face of Jared Lee Loughner in the mug shot released by the police -- taken within hours after he allegedly killed six innocent people and wounded 14 more, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords -- suggests that we may never fully understand whatever illness afflicts him. The law requires us to assess his mental state and motivations, but we might do better to analyze our own craziness.
January 13, 2011
Systematic Assassinations Not Part of Our Politics By Michael Barone
The steam seems to be going out of the move to "deftly pin this" -- the shooting of Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and 13 others -- "on the tea partiers," as one unidentified senior Democratic operative put it to Politico.
January 13, 2011
No Off Button on Sarah Palin By Debra J. Saunders
This is a free country. If Sarah Palin wants to run for president in 2012, she is free to try. But she will not win the GOP nomination because Republican voters are not going to choose a middle-aged version of Britney Spears -- a figure whose most evident talent is to attract attention to herself -- to challenge Barack Obama.
January 12, 2011
The Blame Game By Susan Estrich
Within an hour of the tragic shooting in Arizona, it had begun. The Blame Game. The effort to score political points.
January 12, 2011
Making the World Safe for Targets of Lunatics By Tony Blankley
In the aftermath of the tragic shooting of Congresswoman Giffords and others, it is predictable that some self-centered politicians and political commentators quickly assumed the killer must have been provoked by political comments.
January 11, 2011
The First Casualty Is Not Partisanship By Debra J. Saunders
How do we react to the horrific murders of Christina Green, 9; John Roll, 63; Gabe Zimmerman, 30; Dorothy Morris, 76; Dorwin Stoddard, 76; and Phyllis Schneck, 79; and the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., and 13 others??
January 11, 2011
Crazy Gunman, but a Political Attack By Froma Harrop
House Speaker John Boehner seemed truly appalled by the murderous rampage against Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and constituents at a supermarket in her Tucson, Ariz., district. But the Republican's contention that this was "an attack on all who serve" wasn't quite right.
January 10, 2011
Deal-maker Daley: Obama's Emissary to Boehner? By Michael Barone
"He possesses a deep understanding of how jobs are created and how to grow our economy." That's what Barack Obama said as he announced the appointment of his new chief of staff, William Daley, before a crowd of admiring White House staffers.
January 8, 2011
Bill Daley By Susan Estrich
For a while there, I was worried that Barack Obama might actually be content to be a one-term president so long as he could say he accomplished what he set out to do.
January 8, 2011
Washington Goes Supply-Side By Lawrence Kudlow
"Stop the bad stuff" is what John Boehner told a bunch of us at breakfast a few weeks before the election. That's how he defined the GOP mission. Now he's speaker.
