Written by Daniel Greenfield
Obama's Libyan adventure has thrown a confusing wrench into the gears of the liberal reelection machine. Up until then it had been a fairly straightforward campaign, with the media touting an imaginary economic recovery, blaming a Republican congress for obstructionism, flirting with a government ...
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Written by Daniel Greenfield

It was Hegel who said that history repeats itself because nations and governments fail to learn from it, but it was Karl Marx who added that history repeats itself a second time as farce. Which makes it all too appropriate that Obama is repeating the Bush era as farce.
For years American liberals ...
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Written by Cliff Kincaid

Having encouraged a revolution in Libya, Al-Jazeera is now critical of President Obama’s U.N.-backed effort to protect the people being slaughtered by dictator Muammar Gaddafi. The channel is running a pieceby Phyllis Bennis of the far-left Institute for Policy Studies arguing that the Western air ... Read more: Al-Jazeera’s Agenda in Libya and its American Apologists
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Written by Daniel Greenfield

In two generations we have gone from General Patton telling his troops to grease their tanks with the enemy's guts to an extensive purge of Navy command officersover a series of raunchy video skits. Slowly but surely we are turning the greatest armed forces into the world, into the most politically ...
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Written by Daniel Greenfield

Bad ideas are a dime a dozen. It's when political systems are based around bad ideas that the problem begins. You can argue with a bad idea, but you can't argue with an institution. All you can do is argue around the institution. Wisconsin gave us a showdown between a state facing a cash crunch and ...
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Written by Daniel Greenfield

So now we have a No Fly Zone resolution on Libya. And the man who ran for the Democratic nomination in 2008 as being the candidate who wouldn't have gone into Iraq, is now running in 2012 as the candidate who will go into Libya. Hypocrisy is a beautiful beast and politics is a ...
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Written by Daniel Greenfield

The brutal murders of the Fogel family, including the beheading of a 3 month old baby, stabbed a 3 year old twice in the heart, murdered both their parents, along with an 11 year old brother who was staying up late reading in bed, have shocked the world. But the Muslim terrorist tactic of ... Read more: The Muslim Terrorist War against Israeli Families
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Written by The Daily Bell

German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble and EU economic affairs chief Olli Rehn urged Ireland Tuesday to be realistic and drop opposition to raising a corporate tax rate critics say is unfairly low. "If Ireland wants something additional from us, then we can raise that issue," said ...
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