BY TONY BLANKLEY
Reprinted from the Washington Times
 
President Obama’s post-Labor Day “jobs” speech will be his last chance to launch an economic policy with any chance of manifesting its effect – both economic and political – before the November 2012 elections. He has three options. In order of descending likelihood, they are: a timid hodgepodge of [...]

BY RICH GALEN
Reprinted from Mullings.com
National polls measuring support during the primary season are suspect because we don’t have national primaries. We have state-by-state primaries and caucuses. A national poll measuring support five months ahead of the first caucus is beyond suspect. It is meaningless.
Having started out with that warning let me make another assertion: No [...]

BY MICHAEL S. JOHNSON
My daughter was in Canada recently and went into a gift shop to buy a souvenir.  She handed the clerk U.S. dollars and the clerk called the manager over to get the most recent exchange rate. “We don’t take American money anymore,” the manager said. “Things are so unpredictable down there, we [...]

BY RICH GALEN
Reprinted from Mullings.com
Just went through a 5.9 earthquake. We who live along the Potomac River are on flood watch. The Libyans can’t find Moammar Gaddhafi and, more importantly, don’t have any idea how to run the country even if they do. And, Hurricane Irene is taking dead aim at the Eastern coast of [...]

BY RICH GALEN
Reprinted from Mullings.com
No one in the Obama Administration was hanging a “Mission Accomplished” sign in front of the White House yesterday as it became obvious that the Libyan rebels had all but taken complete control of the country.
But, this isn’t a game of “capture the flag.” The rebels now have control of nearly [...]

BY MYRA MILLER
Reprinted from Winstongroup.com
Last week I went to Iowa for the Ames Straw Poll and State Fair. Here are ten things I observed during my time there.

 BY TONY BLANKLEY
Reprinted from Townhall.com
In the weeks during and since the debt-ceiling debate, the media, pushed by the Democratic Party, has peddled the propaganda that our government is broken — because the Republicans in the House of Representatives negotiated a better deal than the liberals wanted.

BY RICH GALEN
Reprinted from mullings.com
Rick Perry has been in this race for about 12 minutes and has been deemed the frontrunner; the man who has the best chance of knocking Mitt Romney out of his frontrunner status; the guy who will knock / has knocked Michelle Bachmann out of second place; the man who will [...]

By MICHAEL S. JOHNSON
 Item One:  Unsavory Nature of Political Campaigns
 What I saw of the Iowa Republican Presidential primary debate, and it wasn’t much, brought to mind two unsavory aspects of American political campaigns that politicians, the press and the public ought to try to temper before we go full throttle into the 2012 races.
The first was [...]

 BY RICH GALEN
Rerprinted from mullings.com
NOTE: This is the second MULLINGS coming out of the Iowa Straw Poll yesterday. It was written partially in Ames, Iowa; in Detroit, Michigan;and, finally finished at home in Alexandria, Virginia.
How can this happen? How can a successful Governor hire a group of really smart people, spend more than a year, [...]