Suppose you show up for a track meet at your local high school to watch your daughter perform. She’s in the high jump competition and she clears the bar, which is set at 6 feet. None of the other competitors can clear the height, but the competition’s organizers decide to allow individuals to submit testimonials from their coaches that they had cleared the height sometime during practice. Not the best method of judging performance, eh?
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Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has gone on the offensive on the issue of his inexperience, and I’ll happily walk with him at least halfway down that path. It’s not inexperience that’s his problem so much as naïveté and seeming immaturity.
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Karl Rove is leaving the Bush administration, and one likely line will be that still another rat is deserting a sinking ship, and not just any rat, but Captain Rat, the rat that led the ship to disaster in the first place.
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In my last column I wrote about President Bush’s inability or unwillingness to communicate effectively with the American people on important issues such as the War on Terror, and specifically the war in Iraq. On July 24, Bush gave a speech that concisely laid out his reasoning and the peril we face in this cancer calledterrorism.
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Eliot Spitzer, elected governor of New York in 2006 as a reformer, was himself desperately, painfully in need of reform, despite the contrary impression left by lick-spittle press coverage. Now guess what? His administration has been caught wallowing in dirt, and news stories are saying oh, dear, isn’t this astonishing?
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Republicans in Washington betray conservative principles, they lose elections, liberals once more see themselves in the ascendancy, and what they then do, we are learning, is growl, bark and bite with no sense of intellectual inhibition.Take, for example, Jonathan Chait of The New Republic.
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The Geographic article is about malaria, which, the popular and highly respected magazine reports, is now "endemic to 106 nations" and "threatening half the world’s population." This affliction on humanity is worse than it used to be, "more than twice the annual toll of a generation ago." Once, it looked as if it might be wiped out. In the 1930s, the magazine notes, the United States was in malaria trouble up to its knees.
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President Bush’s average job approval rating is about 30.5 percent, with his disapproval rating averaging 64.2 percent, according to Real Clear Politics. In 2005, Bush’s approval rating began its descent below 50 percent and he has never really recovered.
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It was a cutesy one-liner of the kind some newspaper was sure to quote when the president of People for the American Way said the Supreme Court this past term had "shown the same respect for precedent that a wrecking ball has for a plate-glass window." Sorry, I don’t want to interrupt the leftist laughter, but the remark demonstrated a wrecking ball’s analytical acuity.
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Michael Bloomberg’s successes as mayor of New York City provide substantive evidence that someone out there is of presidential caliber, but that someone isn’t Bloomberg. It’s Rudy Giuliani.
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