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Is Romney Winning Over Florida's Activists?

The Florida straw poll (technically associated with the Florida Republican Presidency 5 that coincides with the Conservative Political Action Conference) hasn't been released yet and, if the buttons and banners I've seen are any sign of enthusiasm, Rick Perry and Ron Paul will land at the top. …

Written by Eli Lehrer on Saturday September 24, 2011

Why Canada Can't Win Forever

In my column for the National Post , I ask if Canada is about to face an economic downturn: Is Canada’s luck finally running out? Through three bad economic years, Canada has emerged as an island of relative stability amid the global storm. More Canadians are working today than were …

Written by David Frum on Saturday September 24, 2011

The Fat Diaries: Do We Really Need New Ways to Eat Ketchup?

Heinz recently announced that they’ve changed their age-old design for ketchup packets. Traditionally if one wanted ketchup at a fast food chain your ketchup would come in a sealed foil pouch. It was then up to you to open the darn thing using fingers, teeth, acetylene torches, and/or …

Written by Monica Marier on Friday September 23, 2011

Still Sound as a Dollar

Conservatives nowadays routinely worry about the dollar’s strength and stability . The dollar, however, refuses to cooperate. Instead, it lately has been rising in foreign-exchange markets, as it typically does in times of international economic and financial stress. The dollar serves as …

Written by Kenneth Silber on Friday September 23, 2011

Here's "My Share"

A friend of mine has a sister who has been broke for years. Ten years ago he got heartsick over watching her struggle while his own career took off, so he began supporting her by supplementing her small income with his own money. He makes $300, 000 a year and gives her $30, 000 a year to help …

Written by Brad Schaeffer on Friday September 23, 2011

Huntsman's Chance

The continuing deflation of Rick Perry after yet another fumbling debate performance has opened the most unexpected chapter yet in the GOP 2012 race: Jon Huntsman's emerging challenge to Mitt Romney - from the right. Sound incredible? Take a look at the opening of Jon Huntsman's speech …

Written by David Frum on Friday September 23, 2011

FrumForum Live Chats the GOP Debate

GOP Fox News-Google Sept. 22nd Debate Tonight at 9pm, the GOP candidates will debate in a forum hosted by both Fox News and Google. The Frum Forum bloggers will diligently live chat this debate and will chronicle how the candidates handle the questions that will be provided by users on …

Written by FrumForum Editors on Thursday September 22, 2011

How to Lose a Supporter

ORLANDO-- Scene: An Elevator at the Rosen Center Hotel, 4:03 P.M. College Age Male Wearing a Rick Perry Button: "I asked [Perry staffer] for a job or an internship at the end of the campaign and she said the governor would get back to me. Someone got back to me 11 months later to say no. …

Written by Eli Lehrer on Thursday September 22, 2011

I'm Already Paying "My Share" Ms. Warren-And More

A video from Elizabeth Warren’s campaign tour in Massachusetts, has been circulating online. In it she justifies on moral grounds the need to raise taxes on “the rich”. As her thin platform from which to launch a tax-the-rich clarion call, she refers to a hypothetical factory owner who must …

Written by Brad Schaeffer on Thursday September 22, 2011

Atop Banff's Sulphur Mountain

I am currently in Banff, Alberta, for a conference of business and political leaders. After hiking up Banff's Sulphur Mountain, I got to experience some Alberta-style socialism: if you hike up, the gondola downhill is free.

Written by David Frum on Thursday September 22, 2011

Boehner Can't Control his Caucus

At some point, Speaker John Boehner was going to have to show the most conservative members of his caucus that he would get work done in the House without them. Yesterday revealed that day has not yet come. The ramifications of the failure to pass the Continuing Resolution (CR) for FY12 in the …

Written by Steve Bell on Thursday September 22, 2011

The Texas Non-Miracle

About all those new jobs created under Gov. Rick Perry... The Center for Immigration Studies reports some facts that should sprinkle a little cold water on over-heated claims for the low-wage/high-immigration Texas economic model. Of jobs created in Texas since 2007, 81 percent were taken …

Written by David Frum on Thursday September 22, 2011

Just What IS the Buffett Tax?

Great novelists create characters that give each reader the opportunity to create their own vision of their appearance. The heroine may have dark hair to one reader and be a blonde to another. At the moment, the “Buffett Tax” is the stuff of great fiction. The rate and the calculation are in the …

Written by Hank Adler on Thursday September 22, 2011

On Israel, Obama (Finally) Says the Right Words

In my column for The Week , I report that Obama's speech at the UN finally showed that he fully supports Israel: President Obama's speech to the UN today for once eschewed ambiguity. America’s commitment to Israel’s security is unshakeable, and our friendship with Israel is deep and …

Written by David Frum on Thursday September 22, 2011

French Prayer Ban Has Popular Support

On Friday, September 16 th , the French government banned Muslim street prayers in its most recent attempt to curb what many French citizens believe to be the ousting of traditional French culture and traditions by Muslim immigrants. Marine Le Pen, leader of the far-right Front National …

Written by Rachel Ryan on Wednesday September 21, 2011

France's Immigration Trauma

The French government has enacted a new law , which many in France hope will end the “occupation” of the streets by Muslims who conduct street prayers. The issue of street prayers in France has been a contested. Given their strong secular commitments, it is no surprise that many French are …

Written by Robin Tim Weis on Wednesday September 21, 2011

The Hobgoblin of Little Minds

At the end of the 1980s, the US was hit by a severe financial shock: the Savings & Loan crisis. I'll spare you the antique details of the crisis, but in 1990 the US found itself looking at perhaps $200 billion in federally insured bad loans by the failed S&L industry. The economy slipped …

Written by David Frum on Wednesday September 21, 2011

More GOP Debate Questions

Frum Forum is asking its regular contributors and readers what questions should be asked of the candidates at the next GOP debate on Thursday, September 22nd. This is our second collection of questions. Question from Zac Morgan : Governor Perry, just how much will your foreign …

Written by FrumForum Editors on Wednesday September 21, 2011

The GOP Field is Now Closed

Washington Post blogger Jennifer Rubin is unhappy with the state of the Republican Presidential field and so has come up with a roadmap for New Jersey Governor Chris Christie to enter in at the last minute and sweep the primaries and election. The sheer scale of the plan that Rubin is …

Written by Noah Kristula-Green on Tuesday September 20, 2011

Greece Defies Reform

Back in May of 2010 it became clear that Greece could no longer finance her debt and her budget deficit through the markets. Since then the nations of the European Union (and the IMF) have covered the borrowing needs of Greece with new loans. This helping hand was conditional, the Greek …

Written by Napoleon Linardatos on Tuesday September 20, 2011