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It’s Not As Though I Have Forgotten To Write About The Bears . . .

But readers will notice that I haven’t mentioned them in this space for some time. The reason is that the Bears suck. I wish that I could put matters more poetically, but there you are. The coaching is bad on both sides of the ball; on offense, we rely ...

From PEJMAN YOUSEFZADEH, The New Ledger,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama

David Broder On The Cost Of Health Care Reform

. . . While the CBO said that both the House-passed bill and the one Reid has drafted meet Obama’s test by being budget-neutral, every expert I have talked to says that the public has it right. These bills, as they stand, are budget-busters. Here, for ...

From PEJMAN YOUSEFZADEH, The New Ledger,  21 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  U.S. Republican Party

Charles Krauthammer On Civilian Trials For Terrorist Suspects

Look, I would love to think that we could simply resolve all of these issues in a civilian court. But in many cases, we can’t. This isn’t a partisan point, just a realistic one. And Krauthammer explains why: September 11, 2001 had to speak for itself. ...

From PEJMAN YOUSEFZADEH, The New Ledger,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Charles Krauthammer,  Khalid Sheikh Mohammed,  Eric Holder,  Senate Judiciary Committee,  Herb Kohl

Of Global Warming And Potential Scientific Fraud

I am going to be rather careful about jumping to conclusions concerning this story, as the details of it are in the preliminary stages of dribbling out to the public. But, long story short: The University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit got its ...

From PEJMAN YOUSEFZADEH, The New Ledger,  20 Nov 2009

I Realize That People May Be Tired Of Me Pointing This Out . . .

President Obama’s job approval numbers will dip below 50% for the first time today in Gallup’s daily tracking poll, according to a Gallup official. “Gallup Daily tracking results just in. Obama will be below 50% for the first time when we update our ...

From PEJMAN YOUSEFZADEH, The New Ledger,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Gallup,  Barack Obama,  Twitter Inc,  U.S. Republican Party,  White House

Bribery

Mary Landrieu is getting $100 million to support health care reform. If this is what it takes to sell such a dubious legislative package, then it is as good a signal as any that Senators ought to vote “no” on the Reid health care reform bill. ...

From PEJMAN YOUSEFZADEH, The New Ledger,  19 Nov 2009

Surprise! (Trade Policy Edition)

Asian leaders prefer Bush trade policies to Obama trade policies. Of course, that is not hard to do, when there are few specifics to the Obama Administration’s approach to trade, when to the extent that we have been afforded specifics, they have served ...

From PEJMAN YOUSEFZADEH, The New Ledger,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  George W. Bush,  U.S. Congress

Health Care “Reform” Will Cost Us

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is touting the Senate’s newest health-care bill as costing $849 billion over 10 years. But this uses the same accounting trick as past versions: 99 percent of the costs don’t kick in until the fifth year of that “10 ...

From PEJMAN YOUSEFZADEH, The New Ledger,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Democratic Party,  Harry Reid,  Congressional Budget Office

Lindsey Graham Devastates Eric Holder

The covering for Holder has already begun. Patrick Leahy is now busy telling people that there is no need whatsoever to interrogate Osama bin Laden if we capture him; as if American intelligence agents would not have an interest in seeing whether bin ...

From PEJMAN YOUSEFZADEH, The New Ledger,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Eric Holder,  Patrick Leahy,  Osama bin Laden,  Al-Qaeda

Sino-American Communiqué Failures

As pointed out by Daniel Blumenthal, Team Obama blundered quite impressively in the crafting of a communiqué with China. I would say something at this point about how it is important for a President and his foreign policy team to possess the experience ...

From PEJMAN YOUSEFZADEH, The New Ledger,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Daniel Blumenthal,  Barack Obama

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