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By Thomas Sowell
Barney Frank was all over the media, pointing the finger of blame at everybody else. When financial analyst Maria Bartiromo asked Congressman Frank who was responsible for the financial crisis, he said, “right-wing Republicans.” It so happens that conservatives were the loudest critics who had warned for years against the policies that Barney Frank pushed, but why let facts get in the way?

Ms. Bartiromo did not just accept whatever Barney Frank said. She said: “With all due respect, congressman, I saw videotapes of you saying in the past: ‘Oh, let’s open up the lending. The housing market is fine.'” His reply? “No, you didn’t see any such tapes.”

“I did. I saw them on TV,” she said. But Barney Frank did not budge. He understood that a good offense is the best defense. He also understands that rewriting history this election year is his best bet for keeping his long political career alive.
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“It’s not that I oppose reciting the Pledge,” Bill Scheurer said. “I opposed having my actions that evening being dictated by a mob.”

Perhaps the “mob” will remember on election day.
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By Debra Saunders
“Political correctness can lead to some kind of paralysis, where you don’t address reality,” Juan Williams observed rather prophetically on Bill O’Reilly’s show Monday night, before he made the comments that got him fired from his assignment as senior news analyst for National Public Radio.
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By Diana West
Since mum really is the word, I picked up on only one pro-war conservative rejoinder to Brokaw’s recent comments. Writing online at Contentions, former Bush White House official Peter Wehner offered his explanation for radio silence on war in this election: “The fact that it (Iraq) has dropped off the radar screen is an indication of the very progress Brokaw himself cannot seem to acknowledge.”

Really? “Progress”? In a week when Iraq’s Nuri al-Maliki was in Tehran seeking Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s favor and alliance with Moqtada al-Sadr while NATO forces were simultaneously themselves ferrying senior Taliban leaders to “peace talks ” in Kabul with Afghanistan’s Karzai, to invoke “progress” is to dodge failure. Maybe it’s no wonder Americans look the other way. Maybe it’s no wonder we don’t see — or see only what we wish to see: nascent democratic bulwarks against jihad, not Sharia-supreme basket cases increasingly dominated by our openly jihadist enemies.

And that’s nothing to stay silent about and ignore.
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By Jonah Goldberg
As far as I am aware, no one has asked President Obama a simple question: If your philosophy is so great, how come the countries that have embraced it for generations are so much poorer than us?

Nor have they asked: If guaranteed health care for everyone will make us so much more “competitive,” how come we’ve been doing so much better than our “competitors” who already have socialized medicine, high tax rates and lavish pensions?

Nor has the president been queried about the incongruity of saying his policies have laid a “new foundation” for economic growth and job creation when the countries he’s trying to emulate are trying to dismantle the very same foundations in order to survive.
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By Argus Hamilton
Chile’s delegation to the United Nations sent a message thanking the world for its support rescuing the miners last week. It provoked some. Chile’s president specifically thanked Jesus, Great Britain and U.S. private enterprise–the entire anti-Obama coalition.
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By Ken Blackwell
Conservatives in Congress need to move quickly to staunch the flow of blood, literally, in our military. The Fort Hood shootings proved convincingly that political correctness is lethal. Army Chief of Staff Gen. George Casey ran to the Sunday talk shows to say it would be a “tragedy” if our diversity were a casualty of this incident. No, General, it was your misguided approach to diversity that led scores of officers to look the other way as Nidal Hasan breathed mutiny and sedition daily—for years.

This administration found one program it could cut: the D.C. Opportunity Scholarships for poor children in Washington, D.C. That was a mere $13 million. But it says it can find $900 million for “humanitarian aid” to the PLO. Most of those millions will be stolen. The rest will go to schools named for suicide bombers and to hospitals used to store rockets. Cut off aid to the PLO.

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By Michelle Malkin
My column today is a rejoinder to Maureen Dowd’s plaintive wail about Republican Mean Girls in the NY Times on Sunday. I’ll take a GOP mama grizzly who wants government to leave you alone over a Democrat bully bureaucrat any day. As yesterday’s failed attacks on Sarah Palin, Christine O’Donnell, and Sharron Angle showed, the ladies of the Right have the harridans of the Left in a frenzy. If you’re catching flak, you’re over the target.
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By Arnold Ahlert
The way the world actually is underscores the fatal conceit of multiculturalism: if all cultures are equally viable, then why are we witnessing massive movements of people away from some countries and cultures towards other ones? Why for example, if Mexico and the United States are merely “two sides of the same coin,” do we have millions upon millions of Mexicans sneaking into the United States, and virtually no Americans sneaking into Mexico? Why are millions of Arabs abandoning their ostensibly worthwhile lifestyles in the Middle East and Africa and emigrating to Europe?

Could it be that such concepts as freedom, democracy, economic viability and equal rights for women are more attractive than religiously-inspired totalitarianism, ingrained misogyny and/or corrupt economic systems that yield little hope for advancement?
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