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Washington Sends A Weak Message To The World

10/01/2013 Published on Forbes.com
It’s just one humiliation after another. A mere three weeks ago, Russian President Vladimir Putin upstaged the US in negotiations over Assad’s chemical weapons. In response to an off-the-cuff comment by Secretary Kerry in London that Assad should just hand…

Republicans dealing Obama the winning hand in government shutdown fight

09/30/2013 Published on Foxnews.com
It seems that President Obama has more allies on the Hill than we thought. But they’re not who you’d expect. The Republicans and Ted Cruz have become President Obama’s greatest ally. Their latest gambit appears to have failed and there…

Five reasons Americans already love ObamaCare — plus one reason why they’re gonna love it even more, soon

Published on Foxnews.com
There’s a reason Republicans have been rushing to try and defund the Affordable Care Act before October 1, when major sections of the law take effect. ; ; Republicans know what polls show — ;that most Americans don’t know what’s…

Reframing The Health Care Debate Is A Long-Term Political Must

09/27/2013 Published on Forbes.com
With the Syria crisis entering a new phase, the focus among Washington policymakers has shifted to the debate over the debt ceiling and efforts by far-right Republicans to try and defund the Affordable Care Act. While it makes for good…

Lowry on move to defund ObamaCare:‘We’re going to end up in the same place’

09/19/2013 Published on Foxnews.com
National Review editor Rich Lowry told viewers Thursday that despite the latest move by House Speaker John Boehner to go along with more conservative Republicans, the budget bill will pass without defunding ObamaCare. “Ironically enough, I think we’re going to…

Why Larry Summers’ Withdrawal Is So Important

09/16/2013 Published on Forbes.com
President Obama failed quietly over the weekend, and it’s important to understand why. His failure had both everything, and nothing, to do with Syria. The withdrawal of Larry Summers as a prospective candidate to head the Fed is indicative of…

Obama Plays Politics With The NSA

08/16/2013 Published on Forbes.com
As I discussed in my most recent post, thanks to last week’s newest revelation–that the NSA scans virtually all communications between Americans and their correspondents overseas, based on the conveniently inexplicit and ambiguous rule that the NSA may “seek to…

In Much-Hyped Speech On The Economy, Obama Offers Up More Of The Same

07/24/2013 Published on Forbes.com
President Barack Obama speaks Wednesday at Knox College in Galesburg, Ill. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) President Obama’s speech this afternoon at Knox College was billed as the presentation of his economic vision. However, it turned out to be what I am…

Obama declares a War on Coal

06/25/2013 Published on Foxnews.com
So much for the denials. An administration that throughout its 2012 election campaign denied it was waging a War on Coal has now come out and publicly declared its intention to shut down coal-fired power plants – putting hundreds of…

Edward Snowden And The Obama Agenda

06/12/2013 Published on Forbes.com
Move up http://i.forbesimg.com tMove down Google’s War On Government Secrecy Kashmir Hill Forbes Staff After NSA Leaks, Senators Re-Introduce Bill To Reduce Patriot Act Secrecy Andy Greenberg Forbes Staff As the world was first introduced to Edward Snowden, the 29-year-old…