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"Russia‘s not going to attack Europe."

This is from President Bush's attempt to calm tempers between Russia and the West.

I know he doesn't read newspapers but jeez. I would love to know what leads him to conclude this.

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Representative Tom Tancredo of Colorado said he had witnessed, in the course of his campaign, candidates move to more conservative positions on guns, abortion and immigration. “You know it’s beginning to sound like a Baptist tent revival meeting here,” Mr. Tancredo said. “And I’m glad to see these conversions. But I must tell you, I trust those conversions when they happen on the road to Damascus and not on the road to Des Moines.”

From the NYT

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To mainstream Protestants and Mass-attending Catholics, the virtual mob against Romney because of his LDS faith may seem like someone else’s problem, but it is really another step down the road toward the naked public square. Legitimizing bigotry by refusing to condemn it invites not only its repetition, but its spread to new targets.

Hugh Hewitt

Reich on Pills

The current Democratic bill [that allows the federal government to negotiate pill prices] is calculated to make everyone happy. It allows Democrats to tell seniors and the all-important AARP that they're forcing Medicare to negotiate with drug companies. And it also allows Democrats to turn around and tell Big Pharma not to worry because the negotiations won't have any real teeth in them. Their drugs will still be approved, regardless of price.

But the bill won't make anyone happy.

Robert Reich

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feminists should be happy [about Nancy Pelosi becoming speaker]. Who was it who said that “real equality is when a mediocre woman can go as far as a mediocre man”? Looks like we’re there.

Lisa Schiffren

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If the parsons of the Beltway had wanted to avoid this ethics problem, they would have resisted helping the U.S. government become so crucially important--for example, FCC rules--to every nook and cranny of American life. Too late now.

Daniel Henninger