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Tea Party Groups Split

David Weigel reports on a fracture within the Tea Party movement: In February, in the wake of the National Tea Party Convention, a group of tea party leaders got some more attention by launching the National Tea Party Federation, intended to act as one-stop-shopping for movement takes …

Written by FrumForum Editors on Friday May 28, 2010

Hurricanes Might Help Clear Oil Spill

The Washington Post that a series of hurricanes may assist with the clean up efforts in the Gulf: As federal weather experts Thursday predicted a busy hurricane season this year, they also said hurricanes could help disperse the oil slicks plaguing the Gulf of Mexico. The National …

Written by FrumForum Editors on Friday May 28, 2010

Zwick: In Praise of Jindal

Jesse Zwick has written an piece for The New Republic arguing that Bobby Jindal deserves more credit for his response to the oil spill: True conservatives have never known exactly what to think of Bobby Jindal. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Republicans praised Louisiana’s newly …

Written by FrumForum Editors on Friday May 28, 2010

Democrats Want Financial Reform Talks On C-Span

Courtesy of the Huffington Post : The Democratic leaders of the Senate and House said on Monday evening that Wall Street reform conference committee negotiations between the two chambers should be webcast and televised on C-SPAN. The two leaders -- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and …

Written by FrumForum Editors on Friday May 28, 2010

Landrieu: Obama Will "Pay" for Oil Spill

Senator Mary Landrieu has a strong warning for Obama: Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) said Thursday that President Barack Obama will pay a political price for his lack of visibility in the Gulf region during the catastrophic BP oil spill. “The president has not been as visible as he should have …

Written by FrumForum Editors on Friday May 28, 2010

Levin: Why the Oil Spill Is Obama's "Katrina"

In a fascinating essay, Yuval Levin explains why the oil spill really is "Obama's Katrina", but not the reasons that most people think: I think it’s actually right to say that the BP oil spill is something like Obama’s Katrina, but not in the sense in which most critics seem to mean it. …

Written by FrumForum Editors on Friday May 28, 2010

Abbas Returning to White House

Laura Rozen reports that Mahmoud Abbas will be returning to the White House in early June: Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas will meet with President Barack Obama at the White House on June 9th. The White House announced the Abbas visit today, a day after it confirmed …

Written by FrumForum Editors on Friday May 28, 2010

Byron York: On the Realities of Courageous Restraint

Not many Americans are familiar with the practice of "Courageous Restraint." It is when soldiers are ordered not to assist their comrades in firefights: ABC News reporter Martha Raddatz was allowed to fly in an Air Force F-15E fighter jet on a combat mission in Afghanistan. The plane was …

Written by FrumForum Editors on Friday May 28, 2010

John McCain Threatens Filibuster on "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"

Senator John McCain has indicated that he may make one last stand to prevent the repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell": Armed Services Republicans threatened Wednesday to filibuster the defense authorization bill if it comes to the floor with Democrat-backed language repealing the military’s …

Written by FrumForum Editors on Friday May 28, 2010

House and Senate Committees Approve "Don't Ask Don't Tell" Repeal

The process of repealing "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" made major progress last night: The push to end the military’s “don’t ask don’t tell” policy that prohibits gays from serving openly in the military cleared two major hurdles Thursday, with the House backing repeal by a 234-194 vote, while the …

Written by FrumForum Editors on Friday May 28, 2010

Sommers: Will Taxpayers Pay for Gender Seminars?

Christina Hoff Sommers has discovered that some gender activists want to get taxpayer money to try and eliminate gender bias in the sciences: If there's one word that sums up everything that's gone wrong since the war, it's 'workshop,'" quipped a character in a 1978 Kingsley Amis novel. What …

Written by FrumForum Editors on Thursday May 27, 2010

Iain Duncan Smith Proposes Extensive Welfare Reform

The UK's new Work and Pensions Secretary, Iain Duncan Smith, has proposed far reaching changes to the nation's welfare system: Britain’s welfare system is ‘bust’ and faces its most radical overhaul for 60 years to undo Labour’s legacy of benefit dependency, Work and Pensions Secretary Iain …

Written by FrumForum Editors on Thursday May 27, 2010

Frum: Government Spending Has Been Rising for a Decade

In commentary for Marketplace , David Frum explains how government spending has been rising and crowing out private spending for a decade: Of course, pay drops during a recession. Of course, unemployment benefits rise. You know -- that's the way the system is supposed to work. Government …

Written by FrumForum Editors on Thursday May 27, 2010

Biden: Iraq Withdrawal Will be On Timg

Vice President Joe Biden has confirmed that the administration will be holding to its deadline for exiting Iraq: The challenge for Obama, whose opposition to the Iraq invasion helped propel him to the presidency, is sticking to his timeline for a U.S. military withdrawal despite a jump in …

Written by FrumForum Editors on Thursday May 27, 2010

Eli Lake Debates Peter Beinart

On Bloggingheads.tv, Eli Lake debated Peter Beinart over his recent essay in the New York Review of Books on the decline of liberal zionism: Click here to learn more.

Written by FrumForum Editors on Thursday May 27, 2010

White House to Continue Drilling Ban

The Hill reports on that the White House will ban and suspend several different drilling requests as a response to the oil spill: The White House will continue a ban on new deepwater oil-and-gas drilling permits for six months and will also delay drilling in shallower Arctic waters off …

Written by FrumForum Editors on Thursday May 27, 2010

Red Cross Lends a Hand to the Taliban

Next time you want to donate money to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), think again. This week, the ICRC admitted providing first aid to Taliban terrorists. Next time you want to donate money to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), think again. On 25 May, the …

Written by Arsen Ostrovsky on Thursday May 27, 2010

Is the Jewish Left Deserting Israel?

With age and success, it sometimes happens that early friendships fall away. That has been Israel's fate. A generation ago, it lost the non-Jewish left. Now, the Jewish left may be falling away too. Israel is 62, middle-aged by any definition. Israel has now joined the OECD, the club of the …

Written by David Frum on Thursday May 27, 2010

GOP Want Venezuela on List of State Sponsors of Terror

A group of ten Republican senators want Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to designate Venezuela as a "state sponsor of terrorism." In a letter to Clinton, the senators, led by George LeMieux of Florida and John Ensign of Nevada, expressed the need to elevate Venezuela to the harsher …

Written by FrumForum Editors on Thursday May 27, 2010

South Korea Holds Anti-Submarine Exercises

South Korea's navy Thursday staged a major anti-submarine exercise, its first show of strength since tensions with North Korea flared over the sinking of one of Seoul's warships. About 10 ships including a 3,000-tonne destroyer and three patrol boats took part in the one-day drill, which …

Written by FrumForum Editors on Thursday May 27, 2010