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EDITORIAL
The Future Is Bright
by Fred Barnes

SCRAPBOOK
Pelosi's Victory, and Other Election News

ARTICLES
Painting Virginia Red
by Jennifer Rubin

Barack Obama's Leading Indicator
by Jules Crittenden

Next, Locusts?
by Elliott Abrams

Dictatorships and Double Standards
by Stephen F. Hayes

The Swedish Way
by Mark P. Lagon

FEATURES
As We Stand Down, Can They Stand Up?
by Max Boot

France on the Hudson
by Fred Siegel and Harry Siegel

The Palin Persuasion
by Matthew Continetti

BOOKS & ARTS
The Ayn and Only
by Katherine Mangu-Ward

Closing Time
by Martin Morse Wooster

Paint By Numbers
by Martha Bayles

Ghost Patrol
by Andrew Nagorski

Unthriller
by John Podhoretz

CASUAL
Keep Hope Alive
by Victorino Matus

PARODY
Headlines amid GOP victories


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Obama Blames America

On Fox News yesterday, Obama, asked about Iran, said:

"The fact that we have not talked to them means that they have been developing nuclear weapons, funding Hamas, funding Hezbollah."

This statement goes to the very heart of what's wrong with Obama's foreign policy view, and the leftward swing of the Democratic party back toward the orthodoxies of McGovern and Carter. The fact is, the Iranians have not been developing nuclear weapons and funding terrorist proxies across the Middle East because "we" won't talk to them. They are doing these things because their country is run by a fanatical, revolutionary regime that wants to dominate the Middle East.

But, as Jeane Kirkpatrick once said, "They always blame America first."

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