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HopeAndChange

September 16, 2009 – 1:50 am

If you turn your ears to the left, you can hear heads exploding:

By Pejman Yousefzadeh | Posted in Blogs, Chequer-Board | Also tagged Barack Obama, Bush Administration, Law, National Security, Obama Administration, Patriot Act | Comments

The Legacy Of Ted Kennedy: A Contrary View

August 27, 2009 – 1:01 am

I have no intention, of course, of speaking ill of the dead; far from it. I am perfectly happy to assume that Ted Kennedy loved his country–as I am sure that he must have–and that he did everything within his power to better it, as his conscience dictated. But now that his legislative legacy is being cited as a reason to pass health care reform, it is well and proper to state that much of that legacy is open to dispute.

By Pejman Yousefzadeh | Posted in Blogs, Chequer-Board | Also tagged Democrats, Earned Income Tax Credit, Edward Kennedy, Minimum Wage, Nick Gillespie, No Child Left Behind, Politics, Remembrances, Republicans, Robert Bork, SCHIP, Ted Kennedy | Comments

The Verdict On Enhanced Interrogation Techniques

August 25, 2009 – 2:11 pm

We have some evidence, as reported by Ed Morrissey, that EITs were useful in getting information from detainees, a point reinforced by a statement from former Vice President Cheney.

By Pejman Yousefzadeh | Posted in Blogs, Chequer-Board | Also tagged Ali Soufan, Barack Obama, Bush Administration, Dick Cheney, Ed Morrissey, foreign policy, Interrogation Policy, National Security, Obama Administration, Terrorism, torture, War, Waterboarding | Comments

Potential Upheaval At The CIA

August 24, 2009 – 1:26 pm

So reports ABC News, indicating that Leon Panetta is tired of reporting through Admiral Dennis Blair, angry about reports that CIA officials may get prosecuted by the Obama Justice Department, and angry as well about other aspects of his job.

By Pejman Yousefzadeh | Posted in Blogs, Chequer-Board | Also tagged Barack Obama, Bush Administration, CIA, Dennis Blair, Director of Central Intelligence, Hillary Clinton, Intelligence Reforms, James Jones, Leon Panetta, National Intelligence Director, National Security, Obama Administration, Robert Gates | Comments

Summarizing Joe Biden

July 30, 2009 – 8:13 am

There is good news for the Vice President:

By Pejman Yousefzadeh | Posted in Blogs, Chequer-Board | Also tagged Dick Cheney, Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, Politics, The Unbearable Lightness Of Being Joe Biden | Comments

Barack Obama’s Press Conference

July 23, 2009 – 8:24 pm

I didn’t see the President’s press conference, so I cannot testify as to whether the critiques of the President’s emotional presentation, as offered by Ben Smith were accurate. However, we can look to the transcript to examine the President’s arguments.

By Pejman Yousefzadeh | Posted in Blogs, Chequer-Board | Also tagged Barack Obama, Ben Smith, Blue Dog Democrats, Bush Administration, CBO, Congress, Democrats, Economic Ignorance, economy, health care, Health Care Policy, Health Care Reform, Higher Taxes, Iraq, Massachusetts, Mayo Clinic, Medicare, Nancy Pelosi, Obama Administration, Rationing, Status Of Forces Agreement, tax policy, taxes | Comments

Anna Schwartz Speaks Out

July 20, 2009 – 10:09 pm

Via the great and good Academic Elephant, I am made aware of the fact that the great and good Anna Schwartz is speaking out against a whole host of economic policies that are being implemented to combat the recession, and channeling Milton Friedman to do so.

By Pejman Yousefzadeh | Posted in Blogs, Chequer-Board | Also tagged Anna Schwartz, Barack Obama, Ben Bernanke, Big Government, Economic Ignorance, economy, Federal Reserve, Henry Paulson, Milton Friedman, Obama Administration, Private Sector, Timothy Geithner | Comments

Agreeing With Paul Krugman

July 10, 2009 – 3:06 pm

Yeah, doesn’t it suck when people compare politicians to Hitler and Nazis?

By Pejman Yousefzadeh | Posted in Blogs, Chequer-Board | Also tagged Democrats, Godwin's Law, Paul Krugman, Politics, Republicans | Comments

North Korea’s Terror

July 1, 2009 – 2:25 am

In our dealings with North Korea, we’ve paid a terrible price for the North Koreans’ well-founded conclusion that our words and warnings mean nothing in practice. Backing our diplomacy with principle comes with a cost in short-term expediency, to be sure, but the long-term cost of its absence has been much greater. From it, North Korea has inferred a license to disregard both our demands and its own commitments.

By Joshua Stanton | Posted in Features, Politics | Also tagged Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Kim Jong Il, North Korea, United Nations | Comments

Through the Looking Glass With Andrew Sullivan

June 23, 2009 – 10:47 am

Is Andrew Sullivan our Mahdi? A fellow traveler, stumbling with the rest of the column as he tries to follow in the dust of a great leader? A future poet laureate? A batty anti-Semite with a bad tendency to obsessiveness, an unhealthy fascination with genitalia, and miserable taste in music, incapable of even a minimal understanding of basic theological texts? Or just a very Mad Hatter?

By Christopher Badeaux | Posted in Features, Politics | Also tagged Andrew Sullivan, Anti-Semitism, Barack Obama, Catholic Church, Iran, Neoconservatives, Sarah Palin, The Atlantic, Trigg Palin | Comments

Barack Obama Is President Now . . .

June 12, 2009 – 9:22 am

And George W. Bush isn’t, which means that the days of blaming George W. Bush for everything that goes wrong in the Obama Administration are soon coming to an end.

By Pejman Yousefzadeh | Posted in Blogs, Chequer-Board | Also tagged Barack Obama, Bush Administration, Obama Administration, Politics | Comments

Miranda Rights for Terrorists? Neighborhood Watch on Terror

June 11, 2009 – 9:43 am

By broadening the extraconstitutional Miranda holding and all of the rights it promises to encompass men who are definitionally committing war crimes by pretending to be noncombatants while fighting the United States, the Obama Administration is teaching these men that a criminal process is underway in which they will be cared for, represented, and have a much higher likelihood of returning to the field of battle.

By Christopher Badeaux | Posted in Features, Politics | Also tagged Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Eric Holder, Geneva Convention, Mike Rogers, Miranda, War on Terror | Comments

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