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She needs to seem tough, and whatever Hillary's weaknesses, tough is a pretty good word to describe her.

The great mystery is why robots come off so well in science-fiction films when the human characters are often so astoundingly wooden.

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The most passionately anti-Obama Republican politicians and activists consider themselves the truest and purest of conservatives, and often unleash their scorn and fury on others who also call themselves conservative but differ on strategy and tactics.

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She needs to seem tough, and whatever Hillary's weaknesses, tough is a pretty good word to describe her.

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Obama learned from Ronald Reagan that it helps to strike an optimistic tone. But genuine optimism deriving from American exceptionalism, it turns out, does not come naturally to him.

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Obama has seen to the passage of the most radical legislation in recent American history and so-called 'progressives' should be thanking him for it - even as many of the rest of us rear in horror from its implications.

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Conservatives must avoid the siren song of schism, or all is lost.

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Memories of the last nine years have turned Ground Zero from a site of horror, to a reminder of grief, to an occasion for ludicrous artistic posturing - and now to something very close to parody.

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Unquestionably, American political rhetoric can be repugnant, and the Right can certainly be as guilty as the Left.

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Obama's victory in November 2008 was a historic political accomplishment.

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For the record, I am not an admitted homosexual, nor am I a homosexual, though I do know the lyrics to every show tune ever written, which might perhaps account for the confusion.

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One strange quality of writing about political campaigns is that it's a little like writing about a baseball game inning by inning. We presume we can say something about the final result from the state of play a third of the way through. You can when a game is a colossal blowout, but you can't when it's close.

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Nixon in 1968, unlike Obama 2008, was elected as a minority president with only 43 percent of the vote. Yet, in 1972, he won what, in some measures, was the most lopsided election in American history with 61 percent.

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Newt Gingrich has a restless and outsized intelligence that is tragically unleavened by any kind of critical sensibility.

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As a matter of policy, increasing taxes on the most economically productive group, which already generates 60 percent of the nation's federal revenues, during a sustained period of economic doldrums is a wretched idea.

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We must say something, even when we know nothing.

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Here's a very good rule of thumb in politics: losing begets losing.

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America may be in a dour condition, but it is not going to elect a dour president.

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Obama's presidency hasn't been dedicated to achieving economic growth in the short term, or about creating jobs.

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Insulting the electorate and accusing it of spiritual weakness and sinfulness are not the ways to get yourself the job of president.

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You want a political culture that works to create conditions under which an economy can thrive? Since signing the Oslo Accords with the Palestinians, Israel has spent two decades working to unshackle its economy from its socialist roots, with remarkable results.

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Every great political campaign rewrites the rules; devising a new way to win is what gives campaigns a comparative advantage against their foes.

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The presidency is not an entry-level electoral job.

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While in Israel, Mitt Romney said something every sane person knows to be true: There is great cultural and political meaning in the fact that Israel has prospered while the Palestinians have festered.

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Back in 1995, Bill Gates himself didn't understand that the internet was the direction computing was going.

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I was wholeheartedly attracted to the conservative atmosphere that permeated the city of Washington.

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Romney is a good, intelligent, extraordinarily generous man who put on a great fight. But he didn't understand the country or the people he sought to lead, and that is why he lost.

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Romney is right that the Obama vision is too centered on government. But his is too centered on the promotion of business and wealth creation at the expense of everything else.

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Obama is defining himself in a way that will destroy him.

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In the Democratic primary in 2008, the Obama team devised a strategy to use the caucuses and a complicated system of awarding delegates in the state primaries to sneak up on Hillary Clinton and establish a lead Obama never surrendered.

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Electoral contests have nothing but polls, which is why people have grown so obsessed with them; we're desperate for an objective rendering of what is happening and what may happen.

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The Middle East Media Research Institute has spent decades detailing the diseased messages emanating from Palestinian TV and textbooks, instructing children in the glories of suicide terrorism against innocent Israelis.

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When Obama was inaugurated, he and his team had an insight - though whether the insight was conscious or not I don't know. But it was this: The TARP $700 billion price tag was a new kind of model.

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You'd think experienced political professionals would know better than to place their trust in exit polls, notoriously inaccurate surveys that had John Kerry winning the 2004 election by five points when he actually lost by three.

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Whatever Romney's failings, he certainly doesn't suggest that the United States is teetering on the brink of a moral cesspool.

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The idea that the rest of the world was somehow being held hostage by the Arab-Israeli conflict once had a minimal basis in reality. In the first 20 years of Israel's existence, every Arab country was in an active state of war with the Jewish state.

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I look at 'The New York Review of Books.' It's what it has been for 35 or 40 years, which is a highly sophisticated vehicle for anti-American self-hatred.

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