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On the use and abuse of grief as a partisan ...

By NOEMIE EMERY

The unchecked, unelected, unaccountable Elizabeth ...

By FRED BARNES

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Saturday, Feb 19, 2011

12:00 AM, Feb 19, 2011 • By IRWIN M. STELZER

No need to do a careful analysis of the budget President Obama dropped on the desks of the Congress last week – a few broad brushstrokes paint the picture.

Friday, Feb 18, 2011

7:15 PM, Feb 18, 2011 • By JOHN MCCORMACK

One talking point from opponents of Scott Walker's budget and unions bill is that the $137 million budget shortfall for Wisconsin's current fiscal year is the result of spending on health savings accounts and business tax cuts Walker pushed through during a special legislative session last month. "Walker gins up 'crisis' to reward cronies," reads the headline of an editorial for Madison's Capitol Times, a self-described progressive news outlet.

7:11 PM, Feb 18, 2011 • By DANIEL HALPER

Jennifer Rubin: Mitch Daniels's problems not limited to "social truce."

A Texas Democrat's advice for Wisconsin legislators: "If you are going to be out more than two weeks call your spouse for conjugal visits."

Emergency Committee for Israel Responds to U.N. Security Council's Attack on Israel

4:31 PM, Feb 18, 2011 • By DANIEL HALPER

In a written statement, the Emergency Committee for Israel (ECI) blasts the U.N. Security Council's attack on Israel. "As Arab governments are violently suppressing peaceful protests, the United Nations Security Council has, predictably, nothing to say," ECI says. The statement goes on to note the protests in Egypt, Bahrain, Libya, and Yemen, as well as Hezbollah's actions in Lebanon, and notes that the sole subject of the U.N.

Obamacare: ‘Too Much Power’ in One Person’s Hands

4:10 PM, Feb 18, 2011 • By JEFFREY H. ANDERSON

Former-secretary Mike Leavitt, Kathleen Sebelius’s predecessor as secretary of Health and Human Services (and my former boss), writes in today’s Washington Post:

RNC Enters Wisconsin Public Sector Union Battle

3:16 PM, Feb 18, 2011 • By DANIEL HALPER

While the Democratic National Committee has decided to throw its support behind the pro-public sector union protesters in Wisconsin, the Republican National Committee is doing its part to get Democratic senators back to work.

In the Wisconsin union battle, the Obama administration is supporting Democrats' biggest campaign cash cow over a governor that wants needed reforms.

2:42 PM, Feb 18, 2011 • By MARK HEMINGWAY

In evaluating the battle over public sector unions in Wisconsin, it's worth considering for a moment the state of American unionism. It's not a pretty picture, as far as unions are concerned.

2:19 PM, Feb 18, 2011 • By JOHN MCCORMACK

This isn't new--the video was shot before the Senate Democrats fled the state, and Steve Hayes noted the comments in his piece yesterday. But it hasn't gotten the attention it deserves. And it's a good example of how Wisconsin Democrats have taken a decent to strong hand and squandered it by acting childishly.

New Mexico Senator Jeff Bingaman to Retire

1:53 PM, Feb 18, 2011 • By JOHN MCCORMACK

In New Mexico, where Republican governor Susana Martinez won her first term in November, incumbent Democratic senator Jeff Bingaman will announce today he won't seek another term in 2012. Chris Cillizza writes:

1:48 PM, Feb 18, 2011 • By DANIEL HALPER

Government security forces in Bahrain fired on mourners today in Pearl Square. The New York Times reports:

12:37 PM, Feb 18, 2011 • By MICHAEL WARREN

The editorial in today's Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has no kind words for the state's senate Democrats' actions in Wisconsin's debate over public sector unions:

How Not to Understand the Russian-Georgian Conflict

A new report from the Center for American Progress sides with the Kremlin over democracy.

11:53 AM, Feb 18, 2011 • By JOHN NOONAN

"Georgia faces a stark choice between two mutually exclusive futures." That's how the Center for American Progress (CAP) kicked off a 70-plus page report on the divided former Soviet Union.

Can Mitch Daniels Be Saved from Himself?

11:52 AM, Feb 18, 2011 • By JOHN MCCORMACK

While watching the video of Indiana governor Mitch Daniels' smooth CPAC speech, I had the same thought that I had when I heard him speak to a small group of reporters at the Heritage Foundation in June: He seems well-suited to do what the next president must do--reform entitlement programs.

'Democracy is the Best Solvent': An Interview with the Algerian Novelist Boualem Sansal

10:46 AM, Feb 18, 2011 • By JOHN ROSENTHAL

The Algerian novelist Boualem Sansal is the author of The German Mujahid.
The book addresses a unique theme for an Arab author: the Holocaust. Via the reflections of two young brothers in a Parisian banlieue, it tells the story of Hans Schiller: a German SS officer who immigrates to Algeria, converts to Islam, and becomes a hero of the Algerian war of independence.

Responses to the Obama Administration's Proposed 'Concession to Enemies' of Israel

9:42 AM, Feb 18, 2011 • By DANIEL HALPER

Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee Ileana Ros-Lehtinen issued a strong rebuke to reports that the Obama administration would make "a major concession to enemies of the Jewish State and other free democracies."

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