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Two Weddings and a Demerol

Perhaps it wasn't the greatest idea to try to breeze into Reagan National Airport on September 11 with just over a half hour to spare. Thanks to the awful events of that day eight years ago, air travel has become far less forgiving of time shavers ...

From JEREMY LOTT, American Spectator,  17 Nov 2009

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Harold's Hack Attack

A few years back, when Republicans were threatening to junk the judicial filibuster in the Senate, I thought that was a bad idea. So did Harold Meyerson. Writing in the American Prospect after the Republicans cleaned up in the 2002 off-year ...

From JEREMY LOTT, American Spectator,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Senate,  U.S. Republican Party,  Harold Meyerson,  George W. Bush,  U.S. Democratic Party

Beers for Bob

NORTHERN VIRGINIA -- "Not even 8 o'clock!" one young Republican bragged as cheers went up in Bailey's, a restaurant and bar in Arlington's Ballston Mall last night. The election night watching party was sponsored by the Arlington County Republican ...

From JEREMY LOTT, American Spectator,  4 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Barack Obama,  Creigh Deeds,  Bob McDonnell

Battle for the Republican soul

In-fighting and back-stabbing among Republican party factions may end up gifting a safe seat to the Democrats Major US elections take place in years that are divisible by two, so the handful of "off-year" elections takes on greater importance in the ...

From JEREMY LOTT, Comment Is Free,  2 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  White House,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Dede Scozzafava,  Fred Thompson

Kerry Looks for a Legacy

After cap-and-trade energy legislation cleared the first test in the House of Representatives this summer, it stalled in the world's most deliberative body. Then, John Kerry decided to jumpstart a compromise bill among his colleagues. Ever since ...

From JEREMY LOTT, American Spectator,  23 Oct 2009

Related Topics: John Kerry,  U.S. House of Representatives,  U.S. Senate,  U.S. Republican Party,  U.S. Democratic Party

Paper Bag 1, Obama 0

Mitt Romney need not apply either. amen Mel - if Romney or McCain are put up front then the ned is near for the "R's" - romneys healthcare debacle in Mass should be enough to put him away for life Oh I like Mit. He would be a good VP for Sarah. I ...

From JEREMY LOTT, American Spectator,  5 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  U.S. Republican Party,  George W. Bush,  Mitt Romney,  John F. Kennedy

So far, Obama's failing miserably

When he ran for president, George W. Bush promised to be a modest reformer at home and a humble representative of the United States on the world stage. The Al Qaeda-organized-and-funded terrorist attacks of eight years ago changed all that. During his ...

From JEREMY LOTT, The Politico,  15 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  U.S. House of Representatives,  U.S. Congress,  U.S. Senate,  U.S. Republican Party

Beyond the fringe

As Van Jones's entanglement with the 9/11 'Truthers' shows, the American left has to beware of its own paranoid fringe John Nichols, the Washington correspondent for the Nation magazine, is in high dudgeon over the sudden weekend resignation of ...

From JEREMY LOTT, Comment Is Free,  9 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Glenn Beck,  Barack Obama,  John Nichols,  Keith Olbermann,  U.S. Republican Party

America's Power System Is Powerless

America is a beacon of capitalism, so it can be jarring to discover one of its largest industries is a redoubt of socialism. State governments have been running the electricity business, currently a $330-billion-a-year industry, since Theodore ...

From WILLIAM YEATMAN AND JEREMY LOTT, Forbes,  1 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Theodore Roosevelt,  White House,  U.S. Congress

A Failure of Reason

A Failure of Capitalism: The Crisis of ’08 and the Descent into Depression (Harvard, $23.95, 346 pages) IS RICHARD POSNER TOO BIG TO FAIL? That term of art usually refers to companies that are too politically paid up to go down without a few ...

From JEREMY LOTT, American Spectator,  1 Sep 2009

Related Topics: University of Chicago,  Harvard University,  Wikipedia,  The New Republic,  Gary Becker

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