On this weekend’s “Fox News Sunday,” Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol explained that the Planned Parenthood/Susan G. Komen funding controversy is proof that despite the prominence of the fiscal-focused tea party, social issues continue to remain important to many conservatives. (more)
It’s not an endorsement Barack Obama probably expected — or wanted — but Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol gave the president high marks for his recent foreign policy gestures. (more)
If there was an indication that the days of so-called “cowboy diplomacy” are over, the Obama administration’s handling of the crisis in Libya may be just that. (more)
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Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was thought to be many things during the Bush administration: stubborn visionary of Pentagon reform, sender of “snowflake” memos and, by his left-wing critics, evil war monger. (more)
Congressional Budget Office (CBO) Director Doug Elmendorf confirmed Thursday during a House Budget Committee hearing that President Barack Obama’s health care law will reduce the workforce by 800,000 by 2021 because some individuals will no longer have to work just so they can afford health insurance, Politico reported Thursday. (more)
Neoconservative Bill Kristol meets the cast of “Morning Joe” live on MSNBC — what could possibly go wrong? (more)
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Rep. Joe Barton, Texas Republican, is making his final pitch to head a crucial congressional energy panel as the man truest to conservative principles, offering colleagues a detailed battle plan to take on the Obama administration on the president’s health care law and the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) pending global warming regulations. (more)
Jennifer Rubin is the author of the Washington Post’s new conservative blog, Right Turn. (more)
The Internet Age has given us much to celebrate: finding old friends and making new ones; communicating in seconds what previously might have taken hours or even days, and having breaking news at our fingertips, to name only a few . (more)
The proposed earmark moratorium that the Republican Senate caucus will vote on tomorrow has pitted Oklahoma’s two conservative senators against one another. ”Republicans can send a signal that they get it,” earmark opponent Tom Coburn tells THE WEEKLY STANDARD. “Or they can send a signal that they continue to not get it and say they’re not going to change. And if they do that, they’re going to pay for it at the ballot box.” (more)
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The Republican landslide predicted by many pollsters materialized on Tuesday, as the GOP took control of the House of Representatives, narrowed the Democrats’ advantage in the Senate, and took over several governorships. Indeed, the Weekly Standard and the Christian Science Monitor, both used the L-word in their headlines. When did people start referring to a lopsided election as a landslide? (more)
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