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Pew: Pakistanis Unaware of Drone Program

Pakistanis Unaware of Drone Program Danger Room flags down a survey which shows that most Pakistanis are actually unaware of the drone program going on in the country: Here in the America, the CIA’s drone program targeting extremists in the tribal areas of Pakistan is the subject …

Written by FrumForum News on Monday August 2, 2010

Just How Bad is the Recession?

Paul Krugman has argued that the current recession is worse than the economic downturns of the 70s and 80s. But do his claims hold up? I keep seeing that chart that shows how employment declines in the current recession are so much worse than in past ones. You know, this one : On many …

Written by Scott Winship on Monday August 2, 2010

Dems Facing the Perfect Storm

In polls, rank-and-file Democrats appear satisfied with the state of the nation. Unfortunately for Obama, happy voters often don’t vote. The further one digs into the cross-tabs of last week’s Rasmussen Reports poll on the congressional generic ballot the more unnerving the political situation …

Written by Brent R. Orrell on Monday August 2, 2010

China's Early Empires

David's Bookshelf : The remarkable thing about China's history is how little of its past has been physically preserved. " The Early Chinese Empires " is the name of the opening volume of Belknap's lively six-volume history of Imperial China, but this opening volume is nothing like the beginning …

Written by David Frum on Sunday August 1, 2010

FF Summer Contest Round 2: And the Winner Is...

Our Hitchens-Rushdie contest (where the assignment was to wreck a great book title by changing a single word) brought out the genius in our readers. The Hitchens-Rushdie contest brought out the genius in our readers. There were many brilliant entries that there must inevitably be some arbitrarines…

Written by David Frum on Sunday August 1, 2010

Taliban Search Leaked Documents for Informers

Taliban Search Leaked Documents for Informers The Taliban have announced that they are using the WikiLeaks documents to find and punish informers: Speaking by telephone from an undisclosed location, Zabihullah Mujahid told Channel 4 News that the insurgent group will span> …

Written by FrumForum News on Saturday July 31, 2010

WikiLeaks Claims "No Blood" on Their Hands

WikiLeaks Founder Denies There is Blood on his Hands The founder of WikiLeaks claims that no lives have been endangered by the thousands of documents he has leaked: The founder of the website Wikileaks has rejected US claims he has blood on his hands after releasing 90,000 leaked …

Written by FrumForum News on Saturday July 31, 2010

Anti-Defamation League Opposes Cordoba House

Anti-Defamation League Opposes Cordoba House The Anti-Defamation League has come out in opposition to the Cordoba House in New York City: The nation's leading Jewish civil rights group opposes the planned mosque and Islamic community center near Ground Zero, saying more information …

Written by FrumForum News on Saturday July 31, 2010

GDP Growth Slows Downs to 2.4%

GDP Growth Slows Downs to 2.4% The newest GDP numbers indicate significantly reduced economic growth: US economic growth slowed between April and June, with GDP growing by an annualised rate of 2.4%, the US Commerce Department has said. This compares with an annual rate of 3.7% in …

Written by FrumForum News on Saturday July 31, 2010

Obama: Rangel is at "The End of His Career"

Obama: Rangel at "End of his Career" Embattled Rep. Charles Rangel has learned that even President Obama is not optimistic about the congressman's chances of surviving an ethics investigation: President Barack Obama is sending a strong signal to ethics-embattled Harlem Rep. Charles …

Written by FrumForum News on Saturday July 31, 2010

Ben Nelson to Oppose Elena Kagan

Sen. Nelson to Oppose Elena Kagan Senator Ben Nelson has announced that he will not vote to confirm Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court, making him the first Democrat to do so: WASHINGTON — Democratic Sen. Ben Nelson says he'll vote against confirming Elena Kagan as a Supreme Court …

Written by FrumForum News on Saturday July 31, 2010

Time for a North American Carbon Policy

A Canada-U.S. agreement on greenhouse gasses could provide a blueprint for addressing climate change across the globe. A loophole Canada once demanded in the U.S.-Canada Free Trade Agreement now threatens to bite the Canadian energy industry. The loophole allows either country to impose tariffs …

Written by David Frum on Saturday July 31, 2010

Jeffrey Lord’s Embarrassing Attack on Sherrod

It is frustrating that instead of targeting Obama with clear and honest criticisms, some commentators are using race to stoke the opposition. It is frustrating that at a time when President Obama needs to be the target of clear and honest criticism that some commentators are irresponsibly …

Written by Crystal Wright on Saturday July 31, 2010

DC Interns Get the Lady Gaga Treatment

Frum Forum contributor Mytheos Holt has been leading a double life. Seemingly a highly intellectualized recent honors graduate of Wesleyan, he is also a founder of a new Washington comedy troupe, Unbeltway, self-described as "elite Northeasterners who hate freedom, but hate the poor more." Their …

Written by FrumForum Editors on Saturday July 31, 2010

D.C. Interns Do Lady Gaga

Frum Forum had to share this hilarious parody by our own Mytheos Holt that sets DC Intern Life to Lady's Gaga's music. Frum Forum contributor Mytheos Holt has been leading a double life. Seemingly a highly intellectualized recent honors graduate of Wesleyan, he is also a founder of a new …

Written by David Frum on Saturday July 31, 2010

Striking a Tea Party Balance

F F Symposium: Just because voters are favoring libertarian policies doesn't mean you have to adopt Ron Paul's platform. Jonathan Rauch’s article alleging that the Tea Party will tend to have a marginalizing effect on the GOP, and that small-government politics are likely to be favored, …

Written by Mytheos Holt on Friday July 30, 2010

A Proposal for the Cordoba House

If America allows freedom to worship as you please, but there is something disturbing about the Cordoba House planners' disregard of Islam's role in 9/11. I've felt great ambivalence about the Cordoba House mosque project in lower Manhattan. On the one hand: If America means anything, it means …

Written by David Frum on Friday July 30, 2010

The Fat Diaries: What Summer Tastes Like

When I buy summer foods, I'm really buying my childhood. I'm buying that rush of nostalgia I get every time I take a bite. Well I just got back from a week at the Outer Banks. I brought back some lovely memories, a wicked sunburn and a tiki mug shaped like a dinosaur. I call him "drinkasa…

Written by Monica Marier on Friday July 30, 2010

Putting Your Relationship to the Test

David Eddie gives advice to a reader worried she can no longer trust her partner after he lied to test their relationship. Writing in the Globe and Mail , David Eddie gives advice to a reader worried she can no longer trust her partner after he lied to her to test their relationship. The reader …

Written by David Eddie on Friday July 30, 2010

When Schools Get Too Nosey

People who get in a twist over the intrusiveness of U.S. census forms ought to look at the school forms parents must fill to enroll their children in school. Writing in the Washington Examiner , Meghan Cox Gurdon looks at the intrusive questions parents must answer when enrolling their children …

Written by Meghan Cox Gurdon on Friday July 30, 2010