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Barack Gatsby

Written by Clark S. Judge
Appearing in HughHewitt.com / Published 08/25/2008

As the Democratic National Convention gets underway in Denver, the media is full of profiles of the party’s soon-to-be nominee.  Who is Barack Obama? they ask, an odd question.  After 19 months of campaigning shouldn’t they know?  But reading the stories, it is clear that those covering him – despite the worshipful reporting -- are not finding the answer all that easy to pin down.&nbs...

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Back-handed democracy win

Written by G. Philip Hughes
Appearing in The Washington Times / Published 08/22/2008

Quick question: When does a 63 percent election victory constitute a setback for the winner? Answer: When it happens in Bolivia.

On Sunday, Aug. 10, Bolivians - who've been going to the polls a lot lately - voted in one of Latin America's strangest elections yet: a recall referendum involving the president, vice president and eight of the country's nine prefects (governors). President Evo Morales, Bolivia'...

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Let the Contest Begin

Written by Clark S. Judge
Appearing in HughHewitt.com / Published 08/18/2008

By Monday next week, all eyes will be turned to Denver and the Russian roulette convention that the Clintons have now forced on Team Obama.  The GOP presidential nominating meeting starts the following Monday.  So this is the last week of the long primary and post-primary season before the traditional campaign begins.  How does the race for the White House look today?
 
Going into this ...

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Battling for the Hispanic Vote

Written by G. Philip Hughes
Appearing in elNuevoHerald.com / Published 08/12/2008

(This article was originally published in Spanish and that version is available below.)

This article was co-authored by G. Philip Hughes and J. Paul Johnson.

    The U.S. Hispanic population, at 15% already the largest minority in the U.S. population, is also its fastest growing segment, increasing by 3% between 2006 and 2007.  No wonder th...

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New Face for the Veepstakes

Written by Clark S. Judge
Appearing in HughHewitt.com / Published 08/11/2008

    Following a Thursday Wall Street Journal editorial sizing up the field, the GOP veepstakes is now officially in full swing.  According to the Journal, no obvious candidate is to be found.  Maybe that’s because the editors weren’t looking in the right place.
    
    In the Journal’s assessment, Louisiana governor Bobby Jinda...

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Obama’s Bad Trip

Written by Clark S. Judge
Appearing in HughHewitt.com / Published 08/05/2008

In the Reagan speechwriting shop, we had a rule about what today is called the mainstream media: The media does not just get things wrong; they get it EXACTLY wrong.  Barack Obama’s recent overseas trip is an example.

Widely reported as a triumph, the tour in fact marked the worst week in the Democratic candidate’s long campaign.  Despite saturation coverage unlike any presidential as...

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Is The GOP Kitsch Or Clueless?

Written by Mark W. Davis
Appearing in The Wall Street Journal / Published 08/02/2008

The Reagan era was the last time the Republican Party had broad, idealistic appeal among America's youth. Subsequent cohorts -- Gen X and Gen Y -- have come to know the GOP by inarticulate voices and information irrelevant to their lives. This isolation of the Republican Party is only going to get worse as the GOP itself grows generationally irrelevant.

How big is the gap between the party and young America?...

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McCain's Latin America Gambit

Written by G. Philip Hughes
Appearing in The Washington Times / Published 07/09/2008

This article was co-authored by G. Philip Hughes and J. Paul Johnson

Pity John McCain.  Back when he was "Maverick John McCain," breaking ranks with his party on issues like campaign finance reform and challenging George W. Bush for the Republican nomination in 2000 he achieved the rank of media darling.

Now that he's the presumptive Republican presidential nominee and the ...

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Enemies, A Love Story

Written by Daniel Casse
Appearing in The Wall Street Journal / Published 06/06/2008

The Pact

By Steven M. Gillon

(Oxford, 342 pages, $24.95)

In "The Pact," Steven M. Gillon focuses on the two current Washington figures whose political reputations are most in need of rehabilitation. The first is Bill Clinton, the only president in modern times to have been impeached and, more recently, the gaffe-prone spouse of a presidential contender. The second i...

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Despite Raúl Castro's reforms, Cuba still source of oppression

Written by G. Philip Hughes
Appearing in The Orlando Sun-Sentinel / Published 06/05/2008

G. Philip Hughes co-authored this article with J. Paul Johnson

The human rights focus in the May 21 observance of Cuba Solidarity Day was very apposite — but also a little ironic. In February, Cuba signed two UN human rights covenants: The Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. Soon thereafter, Raúl Castro announced several much-p...

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The Marketing of Thirst

Written by Matthew Rees
Appearing in The Wall Street Journal / Published 05/23/2008

Bottlemania
By Elizabeth Royte
(Bloomsbury, 248 pages, $24.99)

Two years ago, the upscale bottled-water company Fiji published a cheeky ad that read: "The label says Fiji because it's not bottled in Cleveland." The ad writers were no doubt making a watery allusion to the pollutant-fueled fire on Cleveland's Cuyahoga River back in 1969, an episode that severely stained the ...

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Raúl: more of the same?

Written by J. Paul Johnson
Appearing in The Guardian / Published 05/21/2008

Despite 'Raúlistroika' and the signing of two key UN charters, Cuba remains a long way from granting its citizens full human rights

During Soviet times factory workers reportedly quipped: "They pretend to pay us, and we pretend to work." This axiom applies well to current events in Cuba, modified as: "The Castros pretend to give us freedom, and we pretend to be free." However, di...

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Dealing with the D-Word

Written by Clark S. Judge
Appearing in National Review Online / Published April, 2008

Two days after the 1988 Democratic National Convention, President Reagan tagged the GOP’s opponents with the “L-word” — the unutterable, to the Democrats, name “liberal” — and more or less ended Michael Dukakis’s race for the presidency as it began. This year the Democrats are on their way to attaching to themselves a new fatal letter label: the D-word, dysfunctional.


Their biggest problem, of co...

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Why I Will Vote for McCain

Written by Daniel Oliver
Appearing in National Review Online / Published 02/19/2008

John McCain is not a conservative, but I will vote for him anyway.

After all, in 1952, conservatives, grumbling that Ohio senator Robert “Mr. Republican” Taft had not been nominated, voted for Eisenhower because he was clearly the better alternative to Adlai Stevenson. And they voted for Ike again over Stevenson in 1956.

In 1971, a Who’s Who of conservatives, including the...

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The McCain Fiscal Record

Written by Kevin Stach
Appearing in The Wall Street Journal / Published 02/14/2008

After sweeping the Potomac primary, John McCain is now the de facto Republican nominee for president. But while Mr. McCain's fight for the nomination is all but over, Mike Huckabee's strong showing in Virginia suggests that Mr. McCain's battle to unify the Republican Party is just beginning. One major task is to secure the GOP's right flank, which remains cool to Mr. McCain over issues including taxes and ec...

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