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ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Wed, 28 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT Wed, 28 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ A growing percentage of those Americans who oppose President Barack Obama believe the president is testing the envelope of acceptable domestic, constitutional and foreign policies. Staggering deficits measured in the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/TonyBlankley/2009/10/28/gop_must_not_vote_present_on_our_future 369c533b-65a1-4425-b1d9-c9dc9b061ae8 Wed, 28 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT Want to hear a real laugher? Despite the current disharmony in politics, there's one policy on which all of Washington agrees. Republicans and Democrats, House and Senate, president and Congress all agree that after... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/TonyBlankley/2009/10/14/washington_is_nuts dce64afd-606c-4120-83d8-a1b731061424 Wed, 14 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT Al-Qaida is becoming the weapons of mass destruction of the Obama administration's war in Afghanistan. Or, to be more precise, it is a reverse WMD. For the George W. Bush administration, the likely presence of WMD in... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/TonyBlankley/2009/10/07/cherry-picking_intelligence__again d01dc2fd-75fa-44e3-be6c-37094092b11e Wed, 07 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT The gist of Gen. Stanley McChrystal's analysis that presumably will be presented to President Barack Obama is: If 1) you and Congress fully resource the effort (troops, materiel and civilian aid) and 2) if we get... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/TonyBlankley/2009/09/30/cut_and_walk_from_afghanistan fe34071b-765e-45cf-aaf8-39032eee58dc Wed, 30 Sep 2009 04:01:00 GMT With one-sixth of the Obama administration's term of office complete, last week it revealed its profound commitment to an unprecedented policy of eschewing the exercise of great-power diplomacy -- and indeed of being... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/TonyBlankley/2009/09/16/administration_downsizes_our_diplomatic_muscle da417143-9dab-49cd-abdd-c4881c4d49ae Wed, 16 Sep 2009 04:01:00 GMT As the politicians who support the president's health care plans escape back into Washington from America -- and as the politicians who oppose the president's health care plans leave their safe redoubt in the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/TonyBlankley/2009/09/09/impending_washington_deal_on_health_care 7e3a2b82-7927-4540-985b-de2efaa9f38e Wed, 09 Sep 2009 04:01:00 GMT On May 27, 1964, President Lyndon Johnson had telephone conversations about Vietnam with McGeorge Bundy, his national security adviser, and Sen. Richard Russell, chairman of the Armed Services Committee. First, to... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/TonyBlankley/2009/08/26/command_decision f5f6c445-2261-46d4-8bdc-a2d22f62aa18 Wed, 26 Aug 2009 04:01:00 GMT I have talked with soldiers from Afghanistan -- both American and British, both in the ranks and field-grade officers -- in an effort at making sense of what we are doing there. The White House and Pentagon publicly... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/TonyBlankley/2009/08/12/empower_the_local_afghan_tribal_chiefs 023d9f36-b4c7-4323-abe3-dfe3cf6aa7c0 Wed, 12 Aug 2009 04:01:00 GMT The president's health care initiative is vulnerable to defeat (and the high esteem in which the public generally has held him is in jeopardy) because of unforced errors on his part deriving from the emerging... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/TonyBlankley/2009/08/05/health_politics_quagmire a28f115b-b4f8-4c3d-b512-5366ebcc420a Wed, 05 Aug 2009 04:01:00 GMT House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, whatever her other capacities, demonstrated last week that she is a master at the poetic art of haiku -- the Japanese poem form that encapsulates in three or fewer lines of 17 or fewer... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/TonyBlankley/2009/07/29/a_pocketful_of_miracles dd5a51c9-8612-42f8-8ce4-4b06898d2bb3 Wed, 29 Jul 2009 04:01:00 GMT I was listening to National Public Radio's morning "news" Monday on the way to work, during which the newsperson read the apparently "factual" statement that the United States is the only developed country that does... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/TonyBlankley/2009/07/22/beware_of_comprehensive_health_care_reform 3e17b6e6-5447-40a1-ba94-57daf927a5e7 Wed, 22 Jul 2009 04:01:00 GMT Professional politicians and political journalists don't waste energy on political corpses. They reserve their energy -- positive or negative -- for viable politicians. Thus, an intriguing part of... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/TonyBlankley/2009/07/08/sarah_agonistes 70b73e5e-9ccb-4d51-9e55-ea9a2e2d4f5c Wed, 08 Jul 2009 04:01:00 GMT This week, American troops start leaving Iraqi cities in compliance with both former President George W. Bush's negotiated start date for withdrawal and President Barack Obama's campaign pledge. Given Bush's profound... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/TonyBlankley/2009/07/01/from_kabul_to_baghdad_--_and_back 2288fd36-e0f7-4005-99e3-5fcb8b5a75bb Wed, 01 Jul 2009 04:01:00 GMT Last week, both David Broder, The Washington Post's venerable and authoritative political voice, and Chuck Todd, NBC's new important political voice, declared President Barack Obama's honeymoon over. Although... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/TonyBlankley/2009/06/24/the_presidency_at_5_months 7a19c51c-104b-4ec3-9d78-6c7d269f641a Wed, 24 Jun 2009 04:01:00 GMT Last weekend's European Parliament and British local county council elections were not only a victory for the center-right over the center-left but also, more significantly, an indication of the growing rejection... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/TonyBlankley/2009/06/10/europe_asks,_does_tomorrow_belong_to_us e44ee4a2-dde0-4c70-8eb2-a7e9682370ea Wed, 10 Jun 2009 04:01:00 GMT