Ms Marcus Meet Mr. Hanson

Ruth Marcus, Washington Post, is puzzled:

It was a jarring moment from an ordinarily smooth pol. Haley Barbour, governor of Mississippi, chairman of the Republican Governors Association and 2012 presidential prospect — which helped explain the big turnout

An interesting John Hawkins interview with Victor Davis Hanson:

Victor Davis Hanson: I think that’s just part of what it means to be a privileged Westerner. It means that you’re going to be wracked by self doubt and you’re going

Obama’s vision problem, Victor Davis Hanson, RCP:

Not being George W. Bush while apologizing for America’s purported sins is not a foreign policy

[…]

But what exactly does Barack Obama wish to accomplish abroad?

In interviews and speeches,

Confessed child rapist, confesses to being fugitive from justice, by Roman Polanski, (NFL)

It is true: 33 years ago I pleaded guilty, and I served time at the prison for common law crimes at Chino, not in a VIP prison. 

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• KENNEDY SENATE SEAT TO A REPUBLICAN?  MAYBE….Scott Rasmussen and his people are reporting that State Attorney General Martha Coakley is

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• MORE ANITA DUNN:  Victor Davis Hanson, on Saturday:
  

  I am not a big fan of saying that officials should resign

[M]ost Americans not only do not know what the administration [health care] plan is, but sense that their president does not either.

Health care is stalled and insidiously undermining the presidency of Obama precisely because the public senses he has

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This is The “Stop Look and Listen” Edition

• KRUGMAN GETS A DOSE OF REALITY ON HEALTHCARE:  >I wonder if it’ll take.

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This is the “Road to where?” edition

• That sucks: As a social conservative, I found this piece by Dennis Praeger to be

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This is the “Future Camper” Edition

• I have the POWER…. So now Arlen Specter is willing to compromise on “Card Check”?  I

Memo to The One: Pretty words alone will not do.  Video:

Hat tip: Gateway Pundit

Meanwhile away from Obamaland, back in the real world,

MOMBASA, Kenya (AP) – Undeterred by U.S. and French hostage rescues that killed five

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This is the Towtruck edition. Seems to be the Naional car has quit, and is sitting at the sid eof the road.

Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, warns of the coming meltdown of Barack Obama:

If [Barack Obama] doesn’t quit the messianic style and perpetual campaign mode, and begin humbly governing, then he will devolve into Carterism-angry that the once-fawning press

Hanson:

“I don’t know why Obama’s supporters object to the airing of these quotes. His past views, his tax plan, and other spontaneous offerings (‘Spread the wealth around’) are a fair enough representation of a European socialist view of how

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