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Obama Seeks Arms Deal by Year End

Obama Seeks Arms Deal by Year End The Wall Street Journal reports : YOKOHAMA, Japan—U.S. President Barack Obama promised his Russian counterpart a "full-court press" to ratify their nuclear arms accord this year, before a more Republican Senate makes passage considerably more …

Written by FrumForum News on Monday November 15, 2010

Axelrod to Begin Re-election Campaign Next Year

Axelrod to Begin Re-election Campaign Next Year USA Today reports : In case you were wondering if President Obama will seek re-election: Top adviser David Axelrod confirmed today he will leave the White House in the first half of next year to start organizing Obama's 2012 …

Written by FrumForum News on Monday November 15, 2010

Dem Strategists to Obama: Don't Seek Reelection

Dem Strategists to Obama: Don't Seek Reelection Pat Caddell and Douglas Schoen write in the Washington Post : President Obama must decide now how he wants to govern in the two years leading up to the 2012 presidential election. In recent days, he has offered differing visions of …

Written by FrumForum News on Monday November 15, 2010

Report: Nazis Sheltered by CIA after WWII

Report: Nazis Sheltered by CIA after WWII The New York Times reports : WASHINGTON — A secret history of the United States government’s Nazi-hunting operation concludes that American intelligence officials created a “safe haven” in the United States for Nazis and their collaborator…

Written by FrumForum News on Monday November 15, 2010

GOP 2012 Hopefuls Line Up Donors

GOP 2012 Hopefuls Line Up Donors The New York Times reports : Mitt Romney is not running for president, yet. But a handful of big donors have each contributed in the realm of $100, 000, or more, to Mr. Romney this year through a network of state political action committees …

Written by FrumForum News on Monday November 15, 2010

IRS Withholds Data That Might Find Missing Children

IRS Withholds Data That Might Find Missing Children The New York Times reports : For parents of missing children, any scrap of information that could lead to an abductor is precious. Three years into an excruciating search for her abducted son, Susan Lau got such a tip. Her …

Written by FrumForum News on Monday November 15, 2010

Cigarette Companies Fight New Restrictions

Cigarette Companies Fight New Restrictions The New York Times reports : As sales to developing nations become ever more important to giant tobacco companies, they are stepping up efforts around the world to fight tough restrictions on the marketing of cigarettes . Companies …

Written by FrumForum News on Monday November 15, 2010

Clinton Silent on Iraq's Christian Genocide

Clinton Silent on Iraq's Christian Genocide Reza Aslan writes : A full-scale genocide is under way in Iraq: a well-planned, well-financed, deliberate plot to cleanse the country of its Christian citizens. And thus far, neither the Iraqi government nor the United States is doing …

Written by FrumForum News on Monday November 15, 2010

Madoff Auction Nets Over $2 Million

Madoff Auction Nets Over $2 Million The NY Daily News reports : The way his stuff was selling, you'd think people actually liked the guy. Despised Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff 's bling went under the hammer in New York yesterday, and hundreds of buyers swapped their …

Written by FrumForum News on Monday November 15, 2010

British Couple Held by Pirates Freed

British Couple Held by Pirates Freed The Guardian reports : A British couple held captive for more than a year by Somali pirates said they were "skinny and bony" but otherwise fine today after a substantial ransom was paid to secure their release. Taken hostage after pirates …

Written by FrumForum News on Monday November 15, 2010

Time to Derail the Dems' Bullet Train Dreams

Buried within the latest stimulus was an $8 billion earmark for high speed rail. But despite the Dems' enthusiasm the plans don't make economic sense. Among the many obsessions Democrats are currently preoccupied with, high-speed rail is the most perplexing—not because it isn’t the type of project …

Written by Mason Herron on Sunday November 14, 2010

Dubya Does Not Heart Colin Powell

Bush's new memoir makes it clear: the former president isn't a big fan of Colin Powell. From p. 153 of Bush’s new memoir. The president and his party are traveling in China. Word is received that the bio-detectors at the White House have detected botulinum toxin on the premises. Chances are that …

Written by David Frum on Sunday November 14, 2010

UK's Top Soldier: Al Qaeda Can't be Beat

UK's Top Soldier: Al Qaeda Can't be Beat The Daily Telegraph reports: The new head of Britain's armed forces, Gen Sir David Richards, has warned that the West cannot defeat al-Qaeda and militant Islam. He said defeating Islamist militancy was "unnecessary and would never be …

Written by FrumForum News on Sunday November 14, 2010

Michael Moore: Dems 'Can't Keep Blaming Bush'

Michael Moore: Dems 'Can't Keep Blaming Bush' Mediaite reports: One of the Old Guard has begun to change his tune: Michael Moore is calling for a moratorium on blaming President Bush. Well, sort of. On last night’s Real Time , Moore told his co-panelists and host Bill Maher that …

Written by FrumForum News on Sunday November 14, 2010

The Harm Done by 'Voluntourism'

The Harm Done by 'Voluntourism' Ian Birrell writes in The Observer : By 10pm, the aptly named Bar Street is pulsating with tourists drawn to Siem Reap by the famous Cambodian ruins of Angkor Wat. As hip-hop blares from clubs, children playing traditional instruments are led …

Written by FrumForum News on Sunday November 14, 2010

Did Bush Senior Back the War?

Surprisingly, none of the early stories of the Bush memoirs notice one of its major revelations: a note from George HW Bush seeming to endorse the Iraq war. I'm surprised that none of the early stories of the Bush memoirs noticed one of the book's few major revelations: a note from President …

Written by David Frum on Sunday November 14, 2010

How We Almost Lost the Iraq War

In his new memoir, Decision Points , Bush reveals his decision to replace Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld. On p. 93-94 of his new memoir Decision Points Bush discusses the deterioration in Iraq in 2005-2006. He begins to think he may need a new secretary of defense. He raises the issue with …

Written by David Frum on Sunday November 14, 2010

Heckuva Job

President Bush's new memoir Decision Points could use an extra round of fact-checking. From the Acknowledgements to George W. Bush's Decision Points (p. 479): Much of the research for this book was conducted by the brilliant and tireless Peter Rough. Peter spent the past eighteen months …

Written by David Frum on Sunday November 14, 2010

Bartlett: How Obama Misplayed the Tax Card

Bartlett: How Obama Misplayed the Tax Card Bruce Bartlett writes: One of the key sticking points, dating back to the presidential campaign, is President Obama’s desire to limit extension of the tax cuts to those with annual taxable incomes below $250, 000. His rationale has …

Written by FrumForum News on Sunday November 14, 2010

Lib Dems Never Wanted Coalition with Brown

Lib Dems Never Wanted Coalition Deal with Brown The Daily Mail reports: Buckingham Palace helped David Cameron and Nick Clegg keep Gordon Brown in Downing Street in the days after he lost the Election to make it easier for the Coalition to take power, a former Cabinet Minister …

Written by FrumForum News on Sunday November 14, 2010