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Why Obama was Measured on Iran
Mark Hosenball 6/27/2009 12:00:00 AM
President Obama's cautious response to election results in Iran may be partly explained by the fact that U.S. intelligence agencies were off the mark in assessments they gave the White House and lawmakers. Five officials familiar with intel reporting and analysis, who asked for anonymity to discuss sensitive material, say most experts at the CIA and other intel agencies initially believed Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won reelection solidly—and that if there was fraud, it was at the margins.
Will It Be 1972 Forever?
George F. Will 6/27/2009 12:00:00 AM
The question to which the Supreme Court recently gave a mistaken answer was: Has the revolution in race relations since enactment of the 1965 Voting Rights Act rendered the act's Section 5 anachronistic and hence unconstitutional as a no-longer defensible encroachment on the rights of the affected jurisdictions? The court's 8–1 ruling to preserve Section 5 is a reminder how misguided are conservatives' indiscriminate denunciations of "judicial activism."
Ignore the Skeptics
Andrew Moravcsik 6/20/2009 12:00:00 AM
The criticism began almost immediately after polls closed in the recent elections to the European Parliament. Fewer had turned out than ever: a third of Brits and Dutch, under a quarter of Poles and less than 20 percent of Slovaks. Surely, goes the conventional view, such blatant voter apathy betrays deep disillusionment with the European Union. Brussels, charged Euro-skeptics, is a distant technocracy out of touch with the common people. Euro-federalists agreed, but responded that the solution is to "democratize" the European Union—by which they meant creating an elected European Commission president, pan-European rather than national slates of parliamentarians and multilingual debating forums. The solution to dysfunctional democracy, in this view, would be even more democracy.
FACTCHECK.ORG
Peach State Piffle
Lori Robertson 11/21/2008 12:00:00 AM
* Chambliss claims in an ad that Martin would work to raise taxes on "nearly every small business in Georgia." In fact, only around 2.4 percent of small businesses nationally earn enough to be affected by the tax plan Martin favors.
OPINION
We Say We Want A Revolution
Markos Moulitsas 10/25/2008 12:00:00 AM
On Nov. 4, Barack Obama will be elected as the next president of the United States. The real excitement won't come from watching that foregone conclusion come to pass. No, the big question is, will Democrats nationwide simply "win" the night—or will they deliver an electoral drubbing so thorough that it signals the utter rejection of conservative ideology and kills the notion that America is a "center-right" country? Here are the key face-offs:
THE LAST WORD
The Final Repudiation
George F. Will
In a Presidential contest replete with novelties, none was more significant than this: A candidate's campaign—for his party's nomination, then for the presidency—was itself virtually the entire validation of his candidacy. Voters have endorsed Barack Obama's audacious—but not, they have said, presumptuous—proposition, which was: The skill, tenacity, strategic vision and tactical nimbleness of my campaign is proof that I am presidential timber.