This may sound far-fetched. But recall that Woodrow Wilson was re-elected in 1916 on the slogan "He kept us out of war." Then in 1917 he went to war and quickly built the most stringent wartime state -- with private businesses nationalized and political dissenters jailed -- in modern American history. A Wilsonian desire for international order is not inconsistent with aggressive military action. Sometimes the two are compatible.
It would be ironic if the professorial Barack Obama launches a military attack when his supposedly cowboy predecessor George W. Bush declined to do so.
The Daily Caller's latest piece on journalist is up.
"If you were in the presence of a man having a heart attack, how would you respond? As he clutched his chest in desperation and pain, would you call 911? Would you try to save him from dying? Of course you would.
But if that man was Rush Limbaugh, and you were Sarah Spitz, a producer for National Public Radio, that isn’t what you’d do at all."
A 35-year veteran of Congress, former Senate majority leader, and now partner at K Street's most storied lobbying firm, Trent Lott knows the system. And the system has rewarded him richly -- as when Patton Boggs recently wrote a multimillion-dollar check to buy his firm, the Breaux-Lott Leadership Group.
So the last thing Lott needs is a bunch of unwashed, Tea-Partying right-wingers coming to Washington on a wave of anti-establishment, free-market populism, and messing up the good thing he has going.
Democrats are heralding a Senate vote to extend jobless benefits to nearly two years by adding $34 billion to the federal deficit and promised to use Republican calls to finance the package with cuts to other programs against the party this fall.
President Obama, looking to improve ties with America's closest strategic ally, joined British Prime Minister David Cameron in dismissing calls for an investigation into what role BP may have played in releasing the Lockerbie bomber.
The two leaders, in their first formal White House meeting, called each other by their first names, joked about warm beer and untidy children's bedrooms, and spoke warmly of the so-called "special relationship."
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