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The cascade of news about Tiger Woods since his Escalade escapade has largely been driven by the public’s interest in celebrity, mystery, and often pure salaciousness. Only lately has the negative fallout from his secret infidelity begun to hit home: lost corporate sponsors, a stunning golf career on hold, and most of all, a marriage and family in jeopardy.
San Francisco - With the nation’s unemployment rate at 10 percent, the highest in a generation, President Obama could learn a thing or two about job creation by heading to the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Washington (The Weekly Standard) Vol. 015, Issue 14 - 12/21/2009 - Even before she became the swing vote that forced consideration of Obamacare onto the Senate floor, two-term Arkansas senator Blanche Lambert Lincoln had a dubious distinction: "For 2010, she may be the most endangered Democratic senator in the country," says Public Policy Polling head Dean Debnam.
Washington (The Weekly Standard) Vol. 015, Issue 14 - 12/21/2009 - In early November, Democratic representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida accused House Republicans of giving women "back-of-the-hand treatment" during a parliamentary dust-up over a health care debate.
Washington (The Weekly Standard) Vol. 015, Issue 14 - 12/21/2009 - In his Nobel acceptance speech last week, President Obama spoke eloquently on what he called a "just peace"--a peace that is not possible without the recognition of basic human rights. Where human rights are not protected, "peace is a hollow promise," he said.
Washington (The Weekly Standard) Vol. 015, Issue 14 - 12/21/2009 - The Obama administration and congressional Democrats long ago gave up any pretense of working to rationally reform American health care.
Washington (The Weekly Standard) Vol. 015, Issue 14 - 12/21/2009 - The triumph of Reaganism, as represented by the passage of the Kemp-Roth tax cuts in 1981, was a declaration of intellectual independence by conservatives and Republicans who decided to no longer be "tax collectors for the welfare state."Equally, the current battle to defeat plans for a national health insurance program will be a richer victory if conservatives and Republicans not only defeat the proposed legislation, but articulate a vision that rejects the fearful, risk-averse attitude intrinsic to the bills passed by the House and proposed in the Senate.
Washington (The Weekly Standard) Vol. 015, Issue 14 - 12/21/2009 - The campaign for the 1988 Democratic presidential nomination offered a glimpse into the soul of Joe Biden. Asked by a prospective voter where he went to law school, Biden responded with a tirade that, had the claims been true, would have been bizarre. But as most of them were outright lies, it qualifies as one of the strangest political statements on record:
Washington (The Weekly Standard) Vol. 015, Issue 14 - 12/21/2009 - Ever since it was carved by treaty out of the Dutch, French, and German borderlands after the Napoleonic wars, Belgium has been an odd kind of country--short on space, sunlight, and national identity.
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WASHINGTON -- So, our extraordinarily rational and articulate president went to Norway to receive the Nobel Peace Prize and identified himself as a wartime commander-in-chief. True, but he neglected to mention that his nation is not at war.
Washington (The Weekly Standard) Vol. 015, Issue 14 - 12/21/2009 - Democratic senators and congressmen have been trying to convince each other, particularly their more conservative colleagues, that they'll all be better off in the 2010 elections--and will avoid a repeat of their 1994 debacle--if they pass Obama-care.
Washington (The Weekly Standard) Vol. 015, Issue 14 - 12/21/2009 - 'I liked what he said. I talked too in my book about the fallen nature of man and why war is necessary at times.'
Washington (The Weekly Standard) Vol. 015, Issue 14 - 12/21/2009 - It's the Yuletide season, and Democrats are in a giving mood.