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DeMint Will Try to Defund NPR

DeMint Will Try to Defund NPR Politico reports: In his “Talking Points Memo” tonight, Bill O’Reilly said that “Jim DeMint will introduce legislation to defund” NPR in the wake of Juan Williams’s firing. CNN’s Peter Hamby later tweeted confirmation . “This is like the ACORN …

Written by FrumForum News on Friday October 22, 2010

Williams: NPR Was "Vindictive" over Fox Appearances

Williams: NPR Was "Vindictive" over Fox Appearances Politico reports: Juan Williams said Friday morning that NPR fired him this week because the radio network had become “vindictive” over his appearances on Fox News . “I knew about their antagonism toward Fox . I knew they …

Written by FrumForum News on Friday October 22, 2010

Gerson: America Not a Christian Nation

Gerson: America Not a Christian Nation Michael Gerson writes: The controversy surrounding Christine O'Donnell's constitutional views -- Does she deny the existence of the establishment clause? Dispute its location in the First Amendment? Reject that it mandates the "separation of …

Written by FrumForum News on Friday October 22, 2010

Are Settlements Really Preventing Peace?

Are Settlements Really Preventing Peace? Khaled Abu Toameh writes: For nearly two decades, the Palestinian Authority conducted peace talks with Israel while construction in the Jewish settlements was continuing. Every now and then the Palestinian leadership would complain about the …

Written by FrumForum News on Friday October 22, 2010

Bush: 'Zero Desire' to be in Public Eye

Bush: 'Zero Desire' to be in Public Eye The Chicago Tribune reports: In a rare public appearance, former President George W. Bush reflected on his presidency and his life out of the spotlight, poked fun at himself, and plugged his upcoming book while speaking at a conference for a …

Written by FrumForum News on Friday October 22, 2010

U.S. Kills Virtual Border Fence

U.S. Kills Virtual Border Fence The Los Angeles Times reports: The Department of Homeland Security, positioning itself to cut its losses on a so-called invisible fence along the U.S.- Mexico border, has decided not to exercise a one-year option for Boeing to continue work on the …

Written by FrumForum News on Friday October 22, 2010

The Populist Progressive Grudge Match

Politicians are always eager to take up the populist label. The Progressive legacy though, even before Glenn Beck took aim, has always been more fraught. Click here for part 1 and part 2 of this series. The Progressives of a century ago were the antipode to the Populists. The …

Written by David Frum on Friday October 22, 2010

Centrists Lead GOP's New York Comeback

GOP businessman Randy Altschuler is just one of a group of fresh-thinking Republicans looking to upset the Democrats in New York. Long Island congressman Tim Bishop (D-NY) is facing a serious challenge this year in the form of businessman Randy Altschuler, a Republican who has a sharp policy …

Written by Tim Mak on Friday October 22, 2010

Ad Warns of China in the Future

Ad Warns of China in the Future Ben Smith reports : This slickly-produced new ad from Citizens Against Government Waste — in a major national buy, I'm told — attacks spending in the Mandarin-speaking voice of a gloating, future Chinese professor. Rarely do you see subtitles in an …

Written by FrumForum News on Friday October 22, 2010

GOProud Cuts Anti-Dem Ad

GOProud Cuts Anti-Dem Ad Ben Smith reports : Only a gay Republican group, I think, could get away with calling him [Barney Frank] "catty," in this airing with what GOProud's Chris Barron said is a $50,000 buy.

Written by FrumForum News on Friday October 22, 2010

Williams Signs $2 Million Contract with Fox

Williams Signs $2 Million Contract with Fox Politico reports: Fox News moved swiftly to turn the controversy over Juan Williams’s firing to its advantage, offering him an expanded role and a new three-year contract Thursday morning in a deal that amounts to nearly $2 million, …

Written by FrumForum News on Friday October 22, 2010

How French Strikers are Like The Tea Party

How French Strikers are Like The Tea Party Mark Lilla reports: “Président des Riches” was scrawled on a great number of the signs I saw at the Lyon demonstrations, accompanied sometimes by a cartoon of the diminutive Sarkozy, dubbed Nicolas le Premier, in royal garb a few …

Written by FrumForum News on Friday October 22, 2010

Mexican Army Burns 134 Tons of Pot

Mexican Army Burns 134 Tons of Pot The LA Times reports: Billowing clouds of marijuana smoke drifted over the hills as a pair of Mexican army soldiers pondered the consequences of the biggest dope seizure in Mexican history: About 134 tons of cannabis, or 334 million joints by …

Written by FrumForum News on Friday October 22, 2010

How Google Avoids High Taxes

How Google Avoids High Taxes Bloomberg reports: Google Inc. cut its taxes by $3.1 billion in the last three years using a technique that moves most of its foreign profits through Ireland and the Netherlands to Bermuda. Google’s income shifting -- involving strategies known to …

Written by FrumForum News on Friday October 22, 2010

Toyota Recalls 1.5 Million Vehicles

Toyota Recalls 1.5 Million Vehicles The LA Times reports: TOKYO — Toyota is recalling 1.53 million Lexus, Avalon and other models, mostly in the U.S. and Japan, for brake fluid and fuel pump problems, the latest in a string of quality lapses for the world's No. 1 …

Written by FrumForum News on Friday October 22, 2010

Texan Gives $7 Million to American Crossroads

Texan Gives $7 Million to American Crossroads Politico reports: American Crossroads raised $15 million in September and early October, with nearly half of that coming from one donor: Texas homebuilder Bob Perry, according to Crossroads officials. Robert Rowling, CEO of TRT …

Written by FrumForum News on Friday October 22, 2010

Who Else Gets “Nervous”?

Speaking about Islam, Juan Williams admitted: "I get nervous". Others though have made the same admission without similar repercussions. As well as Yale University Press, the Washington Post , and Random House, here are some others who can say with Juan Williams , "I get anxious, I get nervous" …

Written by David Frum on Thursday October 21, 2010

Popping the Gold Bubble

Americans are stocking up on gold. But does the gold binge make any economic sense? Reader Thomas Simpson writes to quote Warren Buffett: You can take all of the gold that's ever been mined and fill a cube 67 feet in each direction. At current prices for gold, you could buy all of the …

Written by David Frum on Thursday October 21, 2010

Williams' Mistake: Starting a Real Dialogue

The next time someone tells you he wants a conversation about race or poverty or Islam what he really means is “I'll spout the PC line and you agree with me.” Much ink has been and will be spilled over Juan Williams’ firing from NPR after his comments about Muslims. To wit, Williams (author of …

Written by Cheves Ligon on Thursday October 21, 2010

The Williams Hypocrisy

Matt Welch points out the real lesson from Juan Williams' firing: You can be Islamophobic, you just can't publicly admit it. Matt Welch makes a good point : You can be Islamophobic, in the form of refusing to run the most innocuous imaginable political cartoons out of a broad-brush fear …

Written by David Frum on Thursday October 21, 2010