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John Tabin

John Tabin is a frequent contributor to The American Spectator online.
by | Jan 10, 2012

CONCORD, New Hampshire — If today’s primary is a poker game, Mitt Romney is sitting on the tall stack and folding every hand. His extremely risk-averse strategy — he holds well-choreographed rallies but rarely takes questions, either from voters or…

by | Jan 9, 2012

Manchester, New Hampshire — Yesterday in Meredith, NH, Ron Paul shook a hand that shook Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s hand. The hand belonged to Yisroel Dovid Weiss, an activist rabbi who leads a branch of Neturei Karta, a small and very odd sect…

by | Jan 9, 2012

Manchester, New Hampshire — Yesterday in Meredith, NH, Ron Paul shook a hand that shook Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s hand. The hand belonged to Yisroel Dovid Weiss, an activist rabbi who leads a branch of Neturei Karta, a small and very odd sect…

by | Jan 8, 2012

Manchester, New Hampshire — “I think this was the fourteenth or so debates, and I think this was Mitt Romney’s best debate,” said a Romney campaign surrogate in the spin room after tonight’s debate. He praised Romney for “taking the…

by | Jan 8, 2012

Manchester, New Hampshire — “I think this was the fourteenth or so debates, and I think this was Mitt Romney’s best debate,” said a Romney campaign surrogate in the spin room after tonight’s debate. He praised Romney for “taking the…

by | Jan 7, 2012

Manchester, New Hampshire — At 8 AM this morning, Mitt Romney was scheduled to appear at a gym at Pinkerton Academy in Derry, NH. This was the scene outside, where a contingent of Ron Paul fans had also shown up:…

by | Jan 7, 2012

Manchester, New Hampshire — At 8 AM this morning, Mitt Romney was scheduled to appear at a gym at Pinkerton Academy in Derry, NH. This was the scene outside, where a contingent of Ron Paul fans had also shown up:…

by | Jan 5, 2012

Egyptian government officials promised the US ambassador in Cairo that material seized in last week’s raids on non-governmental organizations, including US democracy-building groups, would be returned. That hasn’t happened: Egyptian officials still have not returned property or cash seized in…

by | Jan 5, 2012

Egyptian government officials promised the US ambassador in Cairo that material seized in last week’s raids on non-governmental organizations, including US democracy-building groups, would be returned. That hasn’t happened: Egyptian officials still have not returned property or cash seized in…

by | Jan 4, 2012

That’s the word according to Iowa’s Republican Party chairman. Obviously this is functionally a tie, and, as Aaron and Jim say, a moral victory for Santorum. But the technical first-place showing does matter to Romney’s narrative; if his commanding lead…

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