Featured Articles — November 3, 2009

November 3, 2009 by Jonathan Movroydis | Filed Under Featured Articles 

Interesting takes from home and abroad:

Major Congressional Reforms Demand Bipartisan Support By Fred Barnes, The Wall Street Journal
ObamaCare would be an exception to the historical rule of large social legislation.

Frank Rich’s Paranoid Style By Peter Wehner, Commentary
Here’s a stunning development: the New York Times’s theater-critic-turned-political-columnist Frank Rich is foot-stompin’ mad.

3 Contests on Election Day Could Signal Political Winds By Adam Nagourney, The New York Times
In this supposedly quiet off-year election, three contests taking place Tuesday are filling the void. Voters in New Jersey and Virginia will elect governors, while voters in upstate New York are filling a vacant House seat in a race with national implications.

Angela Merkel’s Quiet Revolution By Anne Applebaum, Slate
She speaks very softly and doesn’t seem to carry a stick.

In Iowa, Second Thoughts on Obama By Jeff Zeleney, The New York Times
Pauline McAreavy voted for President Obama. From the moment she first saw him two years ago, she was smitten by his speeches and sold on his promise of change. She switched parties to support him in the Iowa caucuses, donated money and opened her home to a pair of young campaign workers.

Pre-Olympic Games By Reuben F. Johnson, The Weekly Standard
Rio de Janeiro’s perennial problems with crime.

Hollow Victory By John Mearsheimer, Foreign Policy
According to the Republicans, the United States is once again at the crossroads of losing another critical war because of feckless Democrats. Only this time it’s Afghanistan.

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