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Maybe This Time It Will Work
Okay, okay, I grudgingly like Sarah Palin. She’s not as good as the pick McCain offered in an offhand wisecrack the week before the announcement: “Mr. McCain, who had settled on his selection, was...
View ArticleCult Reviewed in National Review
Claremont Institute fellow Michael M. Uhlmann has a dismissive review of The Cult of the Presidency in the current issue of National Review: “It’s Not Just the Executive,” September 15, 2008. (Here it...
View ArticlePolling Presidential Power
There’s a new poll out from the Associated Press and the National Constitution Center that shows “Americans strongly oppose giving the president more power at the expense of Congress or the courts,...
View ArticleContra Palinmania
Comment of the day on this Hit and Run thread: Doug | September 16, 2008, 11:42am | # A guy walks into a bar and orders a drink. Then another. Then another. Eight drinks later he hits on the hot chick...
View ArticleAbuse of Power, Big Time
This week, the Washington Post ran two excerpts from Barton Gellman’s new book Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency, which describes the fight over warrantless wiretapping in greater detail than we’ve...
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Nihilists!
Dieter: “Ve are Nihilists, Lebowski. Ve believe in nothing! Nothing!” –Joel and Ethan Coen, “The Big Lebowski” “And let us recognize above all the 228 who voted no — the authors of this revolt of the...
View ArticleCult of the Vice Presidency
Look ma, I’m in the New York Times, with a question for the aspiring veeps: The claim by Dick Cheney that he was exempt from certain disclosure requirements because the vice president was a...
View ArticleBlame the Voters
That’s the thrust of this week’s column in the DC Examiner: There’s no end of finger-pointing in our Red-Team/Blue-Team battles over fiscal incontinence. But there’s one group that rarely gets the...
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Jenkins on Carter
I’ve written before than Jimmy Carter’s pious, sanctimonious, and off-putting public persona may have caused conservatives to miss the fact that he wasn’t that godawful a president. Holman Jenkins has...
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You Don’t Have to Be a Czar, Baby, to Be in My Show
Raging against “czars” seems all but obligatory these days for movement conservatives. The proliferation of Obama administration czars means “a giant expansion of presidential power,” warns Karl Rove,...
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