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Visitor From Pakistan
Yousuf Raza Gilani, prime minister of Pakistan, will lunch with George W. Bush in the White House on Monday, July 28. That will not be merely another of the president’s routine meetings with foreign leaders. As Pakistan’s democratically elected government | Read More »
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ENPR: Republicans Demoralized But Presidential Race Still Close
Outlook From the standpoint of morale, enthusiasm, and confidence, the presidential election can be called no contest—Sen. Barack Obama over Sen. John McCain. The Republican candidate has not used the long period since he clinched the nomination to establish an | Read More »
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Scalia Saving Obama
After months of claiming insufficient information to express an opinion on the District of Columbia gun law, Barack Obama noted with apparent approval Thursday that the Supreme Court ruled the 32-year ban on handguns "went too far." But what would | Read More »
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Empty Fed Chairs
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has appealed to Senate Democratic leaders to confirm President Bush’s long-pending nominations to fill two empty chairs as Fed governors, enabling a fully staffed central bank to handle the current financial crisis. He did not | Read More »
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Two Big Obamacons?
What is an “Obamacon?” The phrase surfaced in January to describe British Conservatives entranced by Barack Obama. On March 13, the American Spectator broadened the term to cover all “conservative supporters” of the Democratic presidential candidate. Their ranks, though growing, | Read More »
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A Chance for McCain
When John McCain met privately with Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin after a political event in the Milwaukee suburbs May 29, the Republican presidential candidate might not have realized that he had just come face to face with an opportunity | Read More »
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How to Hit Obama
Leaders of Sen. John McCain’s campaign are looking toward "527s" as their principal means of attacking Sen. Barack Obama because they have been given a green light by McCain. "I can’t be a referee of every spot run on television," | Read More »
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My Friend and My Source
A 26-year-old political operative from Buffalo on Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s staff in 1977 was overshadowed by the all-star cast accompanying the newly elected senator to Washington. Not for the last time, Timothy J. Russert surpassed famous contemporaries. His first noteworthy | Read More »
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ENPR — McCain’s Libertarian Problem and Evangelical Problem
Outlook The widely expected pivot to the center by Sen. Barack Obama began Tuesday with his Wall Street Journal interview in which he suggested he might cut the corporate tax rate. That contradicted everything the Democratic candidate had previously said | Read More »
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The Fed Doesn’t Raise
Speculation that the Federal Reserve is about to begin inflation-fighting interest rate increases appears to be dead wrong. Fed Chairman Ben S. Bernanke is worried more about runaway oil prices contracting the global economy than inflating it with a wage-cost | Read More »
