After Mar-a-Lago Raid, Conspiracy Theories Rage on Left, Too
On the left, the most pervasive and potent conspiracy theory is that Trump is collaborating with hostile foreign powers to damage the United States.
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The Last Liberal: The Legacy of Joe Lieberman
In January 2004, the New Republic endorsed Joe Lieberman for president. By this time, recriminations against Democrats who had supported the Iraq War (or, in the parlance of the American...
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A Different Kind of Justice
‘Justice has been done.” That was President Obama’s succinct assessment of the killing of Osama bin Laden by U.S. special-ops forces, carried out at his direction on Sunday. &ld...
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Muslims + Mainstream Media = Madness
Wow! The Washington Post has identified “rabble-rousing outsiders!” I don’t think I’ve heard language like that since southern segregationists complained about young civil...
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Biden’s Baggage
Tiny Delaware barely registers in the Electoral College, but Barack Obama selected Joseph R. Biden Jr., the state’s senior senator, as his running mate. There’s one explanation: forei...
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Symposium: Predictions for 2007
Was it Yogi Berra or Casey Stengel who said: “It is difficult to make predictions, especially about the future”? Either way, that has never been truer than it is today; the world has...
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Helping to Return Joe Lieberman to the Senate
What a sad spectacle these last few days, as Sens. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., and John Kerry, D-Mass., and even former Vice President Al Gore have been falling all over themselves in condemning the...
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Were the Danish Cartoons “An Unnecessary Affront”?
Co-authored by: Hugh Hewitt Speech is not free if you have permission only to say things no one could find unobjectionable or offensive. Freedom of speech n...
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Busy is the Week that Was
By: Amb. Richard Carlson & Barbara Newman. The UN has announced that the Syrian withdrawal from Lebanon is complete. Kofi Annan at the UN seemed uncharacteristically e...
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Let the Battles Begin
A long and hard-fought political campaign has ended, but there will be no rest for the weary. Instead, it's time for new battles to begin. The most consequential will be not between America&...
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Clear and Present Danger; American’s Enemies Target Democrats and Republicans Alike
Bipartisan alliances have become a rarity in Washington. But this week, in a small room in the Capitol, Sen. Joseph Lieberman, a Democrat from Connecticut, and Sen. Jon Kyl, a Republican from Ari...
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Fireball in the Night
This is a very solid introduction to serious thinking about the War on Terror and the scale of the threat to the United States. In one slender volume, Frum and Perle have outlined an analysis of...
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On Offense: Bush’s “forward strategy.”
Think of Tuesday night's speech as the third part of a trilogy. In his 2002 State of the Union, President Bush forged Iraq, Iran, and North Korea into an "Axis of Evil" that must not be allo...
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NRO’s Crystal Ball
Clifford D. May Some exceedingly unlikely predictions for 2004: Just prior to the Iowa caucuses, Howard Dean speculates that “the most interesting theory” he has heard...
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Symposium: Snatching Saddam
Saddam has been captured. What does this development signify for the Iraq war and the War on Terror? Frontpage Symposium explores the issue with three distinguished guests: James Woolsey, directo...
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Howard’s End?
The current issue of National Review carries a photograph of a maniacally snarling Howard Dean. “Please,” reads the headline, “nominate this man.” Na...
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Iraq Rocked
American troops digging a literally lousy Saddam Hussein out of a hole in the ground is certainly a cause for celebration. And those astonishing pictures of the fearsome Nebuchadnezzar wannabe lo...
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The Dean Machine
It's come to this: Howard Dean will be the Democratic nominee for president in 2004. Today, the remaining Democratic candidates will be brainstorming furiously, trying to figure out...
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Big Ideas
The crowd of Democratic presidential aspirants continues to grow, and it includes not just the usual gaggle of lawyers but also a doctor, a minister and a 4-star general. Leading Republicans ackn...
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The Democrats’ Dilemma
Democrats face a dilemma: The war on terrorism has restored national security as a priority issue just as a new presidential-election campaign is beginning to take shape. That's a p...