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Pawlenty: GOP Nominee by Default?

Pawlenty would be a fine president. Yet, I've never met anyone enthusiastic about him. Can he reach the presidency with everyone saying, "He's fine, he'll do"? Jonathan Chait reasons his way to Pawlenty as the most plausible GOP nominee for 2012. Chait is applying the Sherlock Holmes methods: …

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Written by David Frum on Tuesday March 8, 2011

Will GOP Give Climate Science a Fair Shake?

The House is holding hearings today on the science of climate change. But can credible testimony really change the minds of the GOP's climate skeptics? House Democrats persuaded Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitfield (R-Ky.) to hold a hearing today on climate science. At a time when …

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Written by David Jenkins on Tuesday March 8, 2011

How to Sell Your Divorce to Values Voters

Like Newt Gingrich, former Louisiana governor Buddy Roemer is on his third marriage. But Roemer has a unique strategy for explaining his marital history. Byron York has a hilarious account of Buddy Roemer's speech to the Faith and Freedom coalition in Waukee, Iowa. The former Louisiana governor …

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Written by David Frum on Tuesday March 8, 2011

Prison Rape: Not Inevitable

If U.S. prisons adopted better security standards we could halve the number of sexually abused inmates. Why then aren't these standards being adopted? Some US prisons do a much better job than others of protecting inmates from sexual abuse. In the current New York Review of Books ,  David …

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Written by David Frum on Tuesday March 8, 2011

Dems: Walker Broke Law on Prank Call

Dems: Walker Broke Law on Prank Call TPM reports: Wisconsin Democrats are continuing their fire on Gov. Scott Walker's infamous phone call with blogger Ian Murphy, who was posing as Republican financier David Koch, in which Walker spoke of his passion for busting the public …

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Written by FrumForum News on Tuesday March 8, 2011

GOP Split Over King's Radical Islam Hearings

GOP Leaders Split Over Radical Islam Hearings Politico reports: The top two House Republican leaders are divided over how to handle the bubbling controversy surrounding Homeland Security Chairman Peter King’s hearing into “radicalization” in the American Muslim community. …

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Written by FrumForum News on Tuesday March 8, 2011

Obama’s Guantanamo About-Face

President Obama's promise to close Guantanamo may be a casualty of the "Arab spring." Hypothesis: President Obama's promise to close Guantanamo is a casualty of the "Arab spring." As Eli Lake notes in a characteristically in-depth report here , the Obama administration has transferred about 67 …

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Written by David Frum on Tuesday March 8, 2011

Geithner's Small Business Tax Hike

This week, Congress is considering reforms to the tax code. One proposal though could slam small businesses with the same rules and rates that govern large corporations. A House Ways and Means subcommittee is considering tax reform on small business. Treasury Department Secretary Tim Geithner has …

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Written by Hank Adler on Tuesday March 8, 2011

Tea Party Goes Global

Heinz Christian Strache, the poster-boy of the Austrian right, is joining a Tea Party tour of the U.S. Is a transatlantic alliance of populist parties in the works? Heinz Christian Strache , the poster-boy of the Austrian right recently declared that he has received an official invitation from …

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Written by Robin Tim Weis on Tuesday March 8, 2011

Egyptian Women March for Rights

Egyptian Women March for Rights The Guardian reports: Activists in Cairo are calling for a million women march on Tuesday to coincide with International Women's Day. In Cairo the march will begin in Tahrir Square, scene of the mass sit-in during Egypt's revolution that was …

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Written by FrumForum News on Tuesday March 8, 2011

Report: Qaddafi Tries to Cut Deal with Rebels

Report: Qaddafi Trying to Cut Deal with Rebels CNN reports: Moammar Gadhafi is trying to strike a deal with opposition leaders, saying he will step down as Libya's leader if they can guarantee him safe passage out of the country and promise that neither he nor his family will face …

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Written by FrumForum News on Tuesday March 8, 2011

Senate to Vote on Spending Bills

Senate to Vote on Spending Bills The Hill reports: Senate Democrats and Republicans will face off Tuesday on critical votes that will be a key marker on the budget negotiations aimed at averting a government shutdown. Leaders in the chamber are expected to hold a vote Tuesday …

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Written by FrumForum News on Tuesday March 8, 2011

Commerce Secretary Gary Locke Named New Ambassador To China

Locke to be New China Ambassador Politico reports: President Barack Obama has chosen Commerce Secretary Gary Locke to succeed Jon Huntsman as U.S. ambassador to China – signaling a more focused White House effort to press Asia’s emerging economic superpower on trade issues, …

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Written by FrumForum News on Tuesday March 8, 2011

Applebaum: Marines Shouldn't Go Back To Tripoli

Applebaum: Arab World Doesn't Want Our Help Anne Applebaum writes in the Washington Post : I ' m listening hard, but I just can't hear the "voices around the world" that my colleague  Charles Krauthammer said last week are "calling for U.S. intervention to help bring down Moammar …

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Written by FrumForum News on Tuesday March 8, 2011

Outgoing Hill Staffers Enjoy Final Bonuses

Outgoing Hill Staffers Enjoy Final Bonuses The Wall Street Journal reports: Departing members of the House of Representatives awarded millions of dollars in extra pay to aides as they closed down their offices, according to lawmakers' spending records. The 96 lawmakers paid their …

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Written by FrumForum News on Tuesday March 8, 2011

Momentum Builds Behind Anti-Islamic Groups

Anti-Islamic Groups Build Momentum Politico reports: Deep suspicions about Islam in America — about to take center stage in controversial congressional hearing — are also galvanizing an increasingly organized and professional set of political groups, organizations that may play a …

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Written by FrumForum News on Tuesday March 8, 2011

Gratzer: The Conservative Case For Fighting Fat

Gratzer: The Conservative Case For Fighting Fat David Gratzer writes at the Washington Examiner : Does it really matter how many ribs Michelle Obama ate on her vacation? For too many conservatives, the answer seems to be yes, with pundits poking fun at the anti-obesity guru's dinner …

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Written by FrumForum News on Tuesday March 8, 2011

Darnah, Qaddafi's So-Called "Islamic Emirate"

Qaddafi's So-Called Islamic Emirate The New York Times reports: DARNAH, Libya — This fiercely independent port city on the Mediterranean coast, once the center of a simmering Islamist insurgency in the 1990s, is now branded by Col.  Muammar el-Qaddafi as an Islamic emirate …

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Written by FrumForum News on Tuesday March 8, 2011

Newt Gingrich Makes "First Day" Promises

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Written by FrumForum News on Tuesday March 8, 2011

Brooks: The New Emotional Enlightenment

Brooks: The New Emotional Enlightenment David Brooks writes in the New York Times : Over the course of my career, I’ve covered a number of policy failures. When the Soviet Union fell, we sent in teams of economists, oblivious to the lack of social trust that marred that society. …

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Written by FrumForum News on Tuesday March 8, 2011