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Top 5 NY-26 Excuses

After the Republican debacle in New York's 26th congressional district race, expect the excuses to soon start flying. Coming excuses for NY 26: 1) It was a special election in a district that soon won't exist anyway: ignore it. 2) The Democrat won because of a populist spoiler candidacy. …

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Written by David Frum on Wednesday May 25, 2011

Worst Week Ever for Birthers

The birther libel has taken a bad beating this week according to a new poll. The birther libel has taken a bad beating this week, according to a new Washington Post poll . The number of Americans saying President Obama was born in another country has been sliced in half, according to  a new …

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Written by David Frum on Thursday May 5, 2011

Is Palin Alienating Israel's GOP Friends?

It's tough for a Republican politician to lose friends by visiting Israel. Yet Sarah Palin is in danger of doing so. Sarah Palin is visiting Israel, a move which normally helps GOP candidates. But as my latest CNN column points out, by ignoring the Republican Jewish Coalition she may be writing …

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Written by David Frum on Monday March 21, 2011

Palin Flops in India

If Palin's speech at a Delhi conference was intended to establish her foreign policy credentials, she failed. With due respect to aficionados of the emerging India-US alliance, it is difficult to see how New Delhi qualifies as an appropriate destination for a potential presidential candidate to …

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Written by Kapil Komireddi on Saturday March 19, 2011

Come Back Charles Johnson

Charles Johnson, editor of the Little Green Footballs site, has written a post declaring his personal breach with the American right. He offers 10 reasons, but they all boil down to the same one: His outrage at the bad characters found in right-wing media and in the blogosphere. Charles Johnson, …

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Written by David Frum on Tuesday December 1, 2009

Reagan Never Went Rogue

Many commentators have likened Sarah Palin to revered conservative icon Ronald Reagan. Both were governors of Western states, but the similarities end there. As Sarah Palin embarks on a publicity tour for her book, conservative commentators have again taken to likening the former Alaska …

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Written by Rob Bernstein on Sunday November 22, 2009

Palin's Heartland Appeal

Palin is a phenomenon of our times – arguably the only Republican at the moment with star power. With her book tour bus, complete with her portrait on the side, Palin is taking aim at heartland America – her constituency and a group immune to the appeals of the elite. Sarah Palin is back, using …

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Written by Peter Worthington on Friday November 20, 2009

Fox News: Feminist Champion

On a recent broadcast, Sean Hannity blasted Newsweek 's Palin cover as sexist and argued that women's groups have a litmus test for determining which women they will defend. Question for Fox: Does Marisa Miller flunk the litmus test too? On the Fox News site today, I clicked a link to a Sean …

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Written by David Frum on Friday November 20, 2009

Down the Memory Hole

Mark Steyn responds to my comment on PBS' Newshour that Sarah Palin "is a woman who has got into a position of leadership by sending very powerful sexual signals." "This [Sarah Palin] is a woman who has got into a position of leadership by sending very powerful sexual signals. And we see that …

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Written by David Frum on Friday November 20, 2009

Sarah's Story

Reuters reports that the publication date of Palin’s memoir has been brought forward to November 17th, meaning that the book must already be substantially finished. The timing of her memoir lends more credence to the idea that Palin resigned as governor of Alaska to cash in on her sudden and …

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Written by David Frum on Tuesday September 29, 2009

Levi's Future

MTV's 2012 presidential campaign correspondent. Remember: you read it here first. MTV's 2012 presidential campaign correspondent. Remember: you read it here first.

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Written by David Frum on Thursday September 3, 2009

The Reckless Right Courts Violence

Hysterical talk from TV and radio hosts may be a cynical marketing exercise. But it's getting too dangerous to ignore. A man bearing a sidearm appears outside President Obama's Aug. 11 town hall meeting in Portsmouth, N.H., under a sign proclaiming, "It is time to water the tree of liberty." …

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Written by David Frum on Thursday August 13, 2009