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Cultural Moderates And The Republican Coalition

Is it possible to be less than conservative on social issues and still be a part of the Republican coalition? Of course it is. Many voters, such as myself, vote GOP for the fiscal conservatism the party has traditionally espoused. The last several years has shaken that somewhat, but fiscal …

Written by David Kirkpatrick on Friday January 23, 2009

The Kids Aren't Alright

Youthful, S/W/M Exuberant Seeks Conservative Party, Answers. Serious Inquiries Only. I was born during Jimmy Carter's last week in the White House. As such, I mercifully can't/don't have to remember anything about the man, those wide-as-a-Buick lapels he wore, or the stagflation over which he …

Written by Cheves Ligon on Friday January 23, 2009

Political Popularity And The Problem With Reforming Entitlements

While most of Illinois has been distracted by the inauguration of President Obama, soon we will be fixated on another political drama – the impeachment trial of Governor Rod Blagojevich. It is worth noting that our scandal-tainted Governor was once very popular here in the State and lest we …

Written by Jeffrey Singer on Friday January 23, 2009

Palin's "donated" Clothes Stashed In Trash Bags At Rnc

Despite the Republican National Committee's promise to donate Sarah Palin's $180,000 campaign wardrobe to charity, word has it the Alaska governor's clothes remain stuffed in trash bags at RNC headquarters, NewMajority has learned. While Palin followed through on her promise to return her …

Written by Moira Bagley on Friday January 23, 2009

The Story Behind The Clothes-in-garbage-bags-story

This morning, FrumForum.com broke news that the Republican National Committee has been stashing Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s campaign wardrobe in garbage bags. Our story has been widely picked up on the Web and has generated much controversy. Some further things need to be said: This story …

Written by David Frum on Friday January 23, 2009

Defining Torture Down

Newsweek 's Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball report on President Obama's first-week executive orders pertaining to the treatment of detainees. Writers notoriously don't get to write their own headlines, and it sometimes can be a problem. In this case, Isikoff and Hosenball have a real beef …

Written by Michael Anton on Friday January 23, 2009

Security Threat From Mexico Greater Than Iraq, Afghanistan

I believe we have to rethink our entire strategy for working with Mexico. The war that's underway in Mexico is an enormous national security threat to the United States. More people were killed in Mexico in 2008 than were killed in Iraq. There is a genuine civil war underway between drug dealers as …

Written by Newt Gingrich on Friday January 23, 2009

Club For Growth Harms Gop Growth

I'm embarrassed by the party's decline among college educated and suburban voters. But consider this paradox: The Club for Growth, with whom I generally agree on substance, draws its primary support from the party's college-educated, suburban, more libertarian wing. Yet few have done more to run …

Written by Bradley Smith on Friday January 23, 2009

How (not) To Talk About Obama

FoxNews on MLK/inauguration weekend presented a contrast in styles. Mike Huckabee used the occasion to highlight the amazing legacy of King; have a civil conversation with the former New York governor Mario Cuomo on both Lincoln’s legacy and the relationship of religion to politics; and to …

Written by John Murdock on Friday January 23, 2009

My Son The Gun Designer, He Could Have Been A Doctor

As the Gaza War seems to be winding down with Hamâs in ruinsÑto no one’s sorrow but Iran’sÑI thought we could take a look at the rifle that the average Israeli soldier has carried over the years. In the Israeli War of Independence, Israeli fighters were armed quite haphazardly. …

Written by J. Moses Browning on Friday January 23, 2009

Blackberry 1, A "record" Player

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Written by FF Washington Insider on Friday January 23, 2009

Caroline's Troubles

It was reported yesterday that housekeeping and tax issues may have forced Caroline Kennedy to withdraw from Senate consideration. As the news flashed, I suddenly remembered a former professor of mine, Paul Bator of the Harvard Law School, a former solicitor general of the United States and …

Written by David Frum on Friday January 23, 2009

The Enemy Whose Name We Dare Not Speak

When President Bush addressed the nation for the last time as President, he emphasized – as he often had during his 8 years in office – the threat posed by terrorism to American homeland security. " I have often spoken to you about good and evil , ” the President said. “ …

Written by Joshua Glatter on Friday January 23, 2009

In Praise Of Community Organizers

I saw the happiest looking person I’ve ever seen in my life one day while making a turn into the school parking lot; he was pushing a shopping cart that appeared to be full of an entire chain link fence. His clothes were ratty, shoes beaten up and his stocking hat was falling off his head, …

Written by Thomas Gibbon on Friday January 23, 2009

The Republican Crisis In Texas: Houston, We Have A Problem

Texas – long a strong conservative state and a bastion for the GOP -- now faces a potential Republican collapse of its own. The Texas GOP is in danger of losing its mojo. We have gone from a party that pretty much owned the state’s political machinery - as much as any political party …

Written by Marshall Bowen on Friday January 23, 2009

The Conciliatory Radical

Obama's inaugural address made clear that Democrats have little reason to doubt the new president’s commitment to left-wing orthodoxies. The age of big government, re-regulation, multiculturalism, and process-oriented diplomacy has come roaring back. In the heady first days after a thumping …

Written by David Frum on Thursday January 22, 2009

Gitmo: Ideology First, Security Second

The news of President Obama’s Executive Order to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility within a year – with all the headaches and risks that entails – recalled to mind an episode from more than five years ago, when I served on the National Security Council staff of President …

Written by Michael Anton on Thursday January 22, 2009

Good News Gop: Barbara Boxer Is Beatable In 2010

At last some good news for the GOP: Uber-liberal California Senator Barbara Boxer is shaping up to be surprisingly vulnerable in 2010. Never wildly popular, the recent December, 2008 Survey USA poll confirms Boxer's longtime inability to inspire the electorate as a problem solver. The junior …

Written by Larry Greenfield on Thursday January 22, 2009

Winning Back College Campuses--a New Strategy

The Obama Campaign dominated college campuses this fall. There is no way around that. At my own campus, the University of Virginia, seeing Obama paraphernalia on my way to class became as common as seeing North Face fleeces. Thus, it was no surprise that voters under the age of 30 voted …

Written by Karin Agness on Thursday January 22, 2009

When Public Schools Are Too Dangerous Even For Ex-Cons

Names are not used in this story out of respect for privacy. About twenty minutes after school one day last fall, one of my best and favorite students was angrily ripping down different posters in the halls. Not used to seeing him act like this, I stepped in asked what was going on. He …

Written by Thomas Gibbon on Thursday January 22, 2009