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The health summit called organized by President Obama was an
embarrassing flop for the Democrats whose tin ear for public needs and
opinion was not ever more on display.
Whoever advised the president to call the Democratic and Republican
legislators by their first name when almost every one of them is not only
older than [...]

The recently-concluded Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in
Washington, DC began brilliantly and ended with a thud. The organizers deserve
the credit for the former, but have only themselves to blame for the latter.
I attended all three days, and heard many of the speeches. A distinguished number
of conservative leaders, commentators and [...]

For the first time, there are signs that Barack Obama may be a
one-term president of the United States.
Of course, there are almost three full years remaining in his first term, and
much can happen between now and November 2012 that could restore Mr.
Obama’s standing and popularity.
But the stubborn course he’s on [...]

Rumors have reappeared that Supreme Court Associate Justice John Paul Stevens,
the Court’s oldest member, is about to retire. These rumors have arisen before, and
turned out to be premature, so it is not all yet clear that President Obama will have
the immediate opportunity to name a second member to the nation’s highest
judiciary [...]

The political heirs of President Franklin Roosevelt have turned his most famous
inaugural phrase on itself 75 years later. On March 4, 1933, FDR reassured Americans
that “that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” That hour was a moment
of maximum national anxiety. Outgoing President Herbert Hoover had not, in the
waning hours of his [...]

President Obama and his cohorts must have rubbed their genie lamp the wrong
way recently. Not only is everything seeming to go wrong for their administration,
it’s not going well for the economy and in the international theater of operations.
As if this isn’t enough, the weather is casting its vote as a massive winter “no!”
Of course, this will [...]

Although there was some controversy about the Tea Party meeting in Nashville
because its organizers made it a for-profit event, and it was expensive to attend,
there should be no serious illusions that the grassroots movement it represents,
at least in part, is a movement spent of its energy, ambition and ability to shake up
the political establishment.
Since it [...]

      Scott Brown, the new senator-elect and upset winner in Massachusetts is not
an isolated phenomenon. A primary election in Illinois tomorrow may provide
another example in the Republican primary. Later, in GOP senate primaries
in Florida and Kentucky (to name the most notable right now), and in GOP
primaries across the nation, conservative “upstarts” are challenging party
establishment regulars [...]