Political Commentary
- Our View: Last chance to step back from quagmire
- Karzai re-election gives Obama reason to scale back, rather than escalate, in Afghanistan
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- The electoral outcome has caused almost all concerned to avert their eyes, pretend not to remember the unseemly events that led up to Hamid Karzai securing a second term as president of Afghanistan, and declare that in lieu of a possibly even... Full story
- Our View: About those 'created' stimulus jobs
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- Washington claims 640,000 to 1.5 million jobs have been created or saved by the $787 billion economic stimulus plan. With only about 15 percent of the money spent so far by those intended to receive it, at this rate America might implausibly end up... Full story
- Thomas D. Elias: 'Tis the season to just say no
- By Thomas D. Elias
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- The winter holidays are fast approaching, and with them the advent of a long season of being confronted by initiative petition circulators outside almost every big box store, grocery emporium and shopping mall in California.
That's nothing unusual.... Full story
- Our View: Time for Obama to take charge
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- As he continues to stretch out the timetable on a decision about whether to escalate the U.S. commitment to the war in Afghanistan, President Barack Obama has asked for a province-by-province assessment of the tribal and other local leaders in that... Full story
- Our View: White House vs. Fox News
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- Eventually, it seems, every president since George Washington has become impatient with the media, with loyal aides, especially, acting as if any questioning of the sublime wisdom and prudent actions of the chief executive is tantamount to treason,... Full story
- Ron Hart: How to win an Obama Award
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- I predicted it three columns ago, but I was still shocked when Barack Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize only nine months into an accomplishment-free presidency. Tellingly, this is his biggest achievement so far, if you don't count choosing a... Full story
- Our View: A curious Peace Prize selection
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- Well, President Barack Obama is not the first, shall we say, nonobvious and, indeed, rather eccentric choice by the Norwegian Nobel Committee to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Nobody knows exactly what guided the five-member committee selected by... Full story
- Our View: Afghanistan options: no easy outs
- More troops or not, regime still unsupported
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- Based on statements from various officials, it seems that our preferred approach to Afghanistan — pulling out most U.S. military forces from that country and focusing on al-Qaida, which is not operating in Afghanistan and is unlikely to secure... Full story
- Our View: Government puts fish above farmers
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- Finally acknowledging that there is a significant government-created crisis in the San Joaquin Valley, the Interior Department convened a public hearing Sept. 30, and Sen. Dianne Feinstein has announced she has asked her staff to begin assembling a... Full story
- Robert Scheer: Saving the ‘Obama Revolution’
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- The Obama Revolution, and there was the hope of one, might still succeed. But only if Barack Obama follows the model of the incredibly successful Reagan revolution and heeds the political base that made his presidency possible.
Love him or not,... Full story
