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Fred Barnes is executive editor of The Weekly Standard. From 1985 to 1995, he served as senior editor and White House correspondent for the New Republic. He covered the Supreme Court and the White House for the Washington Star before moving on to the Baltimore Sun in 1979. He served as the national political correspondent for the Sun and wrote the "Presswatch" media column for the American Spectator.

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Inspector General: Geithner Overpaid AIG in Bailout

Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner is in trouble again, and this time he may not be able to save his job. Youâll recall that his confirmation was threatened by revelations of cheating on his income taxes. Now heâs accused of paying billions too much for ...

From FRED BARNES, The Weekly Standard,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Timothy F. Geithner,  Goldman Sachs,  Merrill Lynch,  Federal Reserve Bank of New York,  U.S. Republican Party

Barnes: It Could Be Worse...

Since the 19th century, there have been calls for America to adopt a parliamentary form of government -- you know, like Britain or Canada. Woodrow Wilson, in his days as an academic, favored this. More recently, liberal intellectuals and activists have ...

From FRED BARNES, The Weekly Standard,  30 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Gordon Brown,  Labor Party,  Nancy Pelosi

The Real Lessons of Vietnam

President Obamaâs dithering over what to do in Afghanistan has renewed interest in Lewis Sorleyâs powerful, revisionist book on the Vietnam war, A Better War: The Unexamined Victories and Final Tragedy of Americaâs Last Years in Vietnam. Sorleyâs and ...

From FRED BARNES, The Weekly Standard,  7 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  William Westmoreland,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Wall Street Journal,  Creighton Abrams

Obama's Olympic Failure Will Test the Washington Press Corps

Now is the time for the mainstream media to show itâs not totally in President Obamaâs pocket. The Washington press corps will never fault Obama for pushing hyper-liberal policies in a moderate-to-conservative country. Ideological criticism by the ...

From FRED BARNES, The Weekly Standard,  2 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  International Olympic Committee,  U.S. Republican Party,  George W. Bush,  White House

Kennedy the Front Runner

Senator Edward M. Kennedy, who would rather be president, was seated in a big blue easy chair in his dark-paneled office on the first floor of the Russell Senate Office Building. It was mid-morning on Wednesday, October 9, and he was drinking coffee ...

From FRED BARNES, The New Republic,  26 Aug 2009

Related Topics: Edward M. Kennedy,  U.S. Senate,  Bill Bradley,  U.S. Democratic Party,  U.S. Republican Party

Quakelet

Rick Santorum has the cut of a Sun Belt Republican. He's young (36), married (two kids), religious (Roman Catholic), non-Ivy League-educated (Penn State), a workaholic (employed full-time while in law school) and very conservative (Reaganite, 1990s ...

From FRED BARNES, The New Republic,  12 Aug 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  U.S. Senate,  Arlen Specter,  Newt Gingrich,  John Heinz

Barnes: Obama's Already Lost the Health Care Argument

Itâs conventional wisdom now that Obama's health care initiative is in deep trouble. But thatâs wrong. Itâs in deep, deep, deep trouble. Again contrary to Washington wisdom, neither the cost of ObamaCare nor the squabble among congressional Democrats ...

From FRED BARNES, The Weekly Standard,  24 Jul 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  U.S. Democratic Party,  U.S. Congress

Meg Whitman Bids to Save California

and low costs. Now Whitman would apply that lesson--and many others from eBay--to California in the form of streamlined government, fewer bureaucrats, deregulation, less spending, and lower taxes. Meg Whitman is the most interesting person in ...

From FRED BARNES, WEEKLY STANDARD, Real Clear Politics,  17 May 2009

Related Topics: Meg Whitman,  eBay Inc.,  Ronald Reagan,  U.S. Republican Party,  Michael Bloomberg

A Little Something for the GOP?--11/18/2008 12:00:00 AM

Republicans are doing what they usually do after losing an election, debating the future of the party and perhaps the future of conservatism as well. A struggle between traditional conservatives and a younger group of reformers will be decisive. That's ...

From FRED BARNES, FrontPage Magazine,  18 Nov 2008

Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  Barack Obama,  George W. Bush,  John McCain,  U.S. Democratic Party

Barnes: On the Debates

There aren’t many outfits as arrogant, self-important, and aggrandizing as the unelected Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD), sponsor of tonight’s debate between Barack Obama and John McCain. When John McCain said Wednesday the debate might have ...

From FRED BARNES, The Weekly Standard,  26 Sep 2008

Related Topics: John McCain,  Barack Obama,  Gwen Ifill,  Jim Lehrer,  Bob Schieffer

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