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Greece's Tough Deal

A friend's weekend quip: "Anne Mansouret described her sexual affair with ex IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn as 'consensual but brutal.' That's also a good description of Greece's deal with its bondholders and other EU countries."

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Written by David Frum on Monday July 25, 2011

Resume the Debt Debate in 2012?

So here's the new Republican debt-ceiling idea: Pass a $1 trillion increase in the debt ceiling joined to $1 trillion in spending cuts over the next 10 years, no revenues. That sounds dramatic. But $1 trillion in spending cuts over a decade is not as big a deal as it sounds, especially if you …

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Written by David Frum on Monday July 25, 2011

The Relaunch That Didn't Ignite

From Taegan Goddard today: "With its Sarah Palin documentary  The Undefeated increasing its playdates by 40% this weekend, only to watch box office revenue decline by more than 63 percent, distributor Arc Entertainment announced Sunday that the film will soon be available on pay per …

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Written by David Frum on Monday July 25, 2011

Meet Rick Perry, the Teastablishment Candidate

The Republican Presidential field has a problem.  The top two candidates are Mitt Romney and Michele Bachmann. Romney’s issue is that he’s the same Mitt Romney who signed a health care law that the Tea Party considers a Bay State knock-off of President Obama’s “tyrannycare.”  Michele …

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Written by Zac Morgan on Monday July 25, 2011

How Bad Is Republican Fundraising? Bad.

I should be getting e-mail and telephone calls from Republicans but I'm just not. So far, I've gotten one direct mail letter from a Republican candidate for president, no telephone calls, and only generic e-mails sent to everyone on several large lists. Although I'm hardly a high-dollar donor by …

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Written by Eli Lehrer on Monday July 25, 2011

Payback's a Bitch

Consider this scenario: President Palin (or Romney or Perry or Pawlenty or whoever) is sworn in with great jubilation among movement conservatives in January 2013. Voter distaste with Democrats also led to the crushing defeat for Democratic Congressional incumbents, leaving Republicans with hefty …

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Written by Fred Bauer on Saturday July 23, 2011

Hoover Event Draws Crowd Amid Debt Crisis

Despite the  apocalyptic debt crisis, Friday's launch of Margaret Hoover's book American Individualism drew a large crowd from the D.C. political scene. The event, held at the Hotel Monaco, was co-sponsored by GOProud. Margaret Hoover [left] with FrumForum's manager-of the editor, …

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Written by Nicole Glass on Saturday July 23, 2011

Norway and the Global War on Terror

The terrible crime in Norway appears confirmed as the vicious work of a Norwegian possessed by some form of far-right politics. Thus far, the killer is reported to have acted alone, although it cannot be excluded that he belong to some small crazed local group. As we grieve for the heart-rendi…

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Written by David Frum on Saturday July 23, 2011

Who Said August is a Slow News Month?

Oslo bombed. The Euro in crisis. Washington DC consumed by debt crisis - all as we head into the so-called dog days of summer, the alleged slowest news week of the year. When they roll me out from the nursing home to offer advice to aspiring young journalists, I’ll concentrate all my accumulated …

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Written by David Frum on Saturday July 23, 2011

Stumbling Toward Disaster

There's blame for all in the debt talk breakdown. The president walked away from Simpson-Bowles, declined to present plans to reach long-term budget balance, etc. etc. etc. But in the argy-bargy, keep this in mind: the debt problem has become a debt crisis for one reason only: because …

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Written by David Frum on Friday July 22, 2011

#ReasonstoloveTwitter

We all know the benefits of Twitter. But this afternoon I became an even more avid fan of the social networking, media site. I had intended to attended and report on Margaret Hoover's book launch in DC tonight.  I was anticipating being a bit late due to work constraints, so when it turned out I …

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Written by Rachel Ryan on Friday July 22, 2011

Towards a Deal?

Reading the New York Times column by David Brooks on why Republicans should vote for the “plan” that House Speaker John Boehner and President Obama reportedly have developed casts a pall of depression  over any thinking person. Reading the New York Times column by Paul Krugman on the …

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Written by Steve Bell on Friday July 22, 2011

The Prowl: The Pervs of D.C.

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Written by Vivian Darkbloom on Friday July 22, 2011

Josh Hamilton: Haunted by Guilt?

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Written by Alan Hirsch on Friday July 22, 2011

The GOP Needs To Listen To THIS Hoover

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Written by Tessa Berenson on Friday July 22, 2011

"Good Bloody Riddance"

So says the Spectator's Charles Moore on the demise of the  News of the World. Moore sifts through the paper's montage in its farewell edition of past front pages from its long history. The ... thing so apparent from the paper’s final edition was how it has got worse. The early- and mid-20th-…

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Written by David Frum on Friday July 22, 2011

That's Show Business

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Written by David Frum on Friday July 22, 2011

More Dividends Please

Bloomberg View notes that US corporations hold $2 trillion in cash. The site argues that corporate managers ought to be kicking the cash back out to shareholders. Instead: "Total dividends paid in the first quarter of 2011 fell from a year earlier. The average dividend yield on …

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Written by David Frum on Friday July 22, 2011

A Bomb in Norway

Thoughts go out to my many Norwegian friends from the annual delegation to Washington of politicians, civil servants, business leades and academics. Let's hope this terrible apparent crime touches Oslo as lightly as mercy allows ...

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Written by David Frum on Friday July 22, 2011