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Charles Krauthammer: The last refuge of a liberal
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The last refuge of a liberal
By Charles Krauthammer
Liberalism under siege is an ugly sight indeed. Just yesterday it was all hope and change and returning power to the people. But the people have proved so disappointing. Their recalcitrance has, in only 19 months, turned the predicted 40-year liberal ascendancy [...]
Charles Krauthammer: Obama’s Nuclear Posturing, Part Deux
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Obama’s Nuclear Posturing, Part Deux
by Charles Krauthammer
There was something oddly disproportionate about the just-concluded nuclear summit to which President Obama summoned 46 world leaders, the largest such gathering on American soil since 1945. That meeting was about the founding of the United Nations, which 65 years ago seemed an event of world-historical importance.
But [...]
Charles Krauthammer: Ungovernable? Nonsense.
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Ungovernable? Nonsense.
by Charles Krauthammer
In the latter days of the Carter presidency, it became fashionable to say that the office had become unmanageable and was simply too big for one man. Some suggested a single, six-year presidential term. The president’s own White House counsel suggested abolishing the separation of powers and going to [...]
Charles Krauthammer: The Great Peasant Revolt of 2010
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The Great Peasant Revolt of 2010
by Charles Krauthammer
“I am not an ideologue,” protested President Obama at a gathering with Republican House members last week. Perhaps, but he does have a tenacious commitment to a set of political convictions.
Compare his 2010 State of the Union to his first address to Congress a year earlier. [...]
Charles Krauthammer: Soft on Terror
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Soft on Terror
by Charles Krauthammer
The real scandal surrounding the failed Christmas Day airline bombing was not the fact that a terrorist got on a plane — that can happen to any administration, as it surely did to the Bush administration — but what happened afterward when Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was captured and came [...]
Charles Krauthammer: War? What War?
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War? What War?
by Charles Krauthammer
Janet Napolitano — former Arizona governor, now overmatched secretary of homeland security — will forever be remembered for having said of the attempt to bring down an airliner over Detroit: “The system worked.” The attacker’s concerned father had warned U.S. authorities about his son’s jihadist tendencies. The would-be bomber [...]
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: New Socialism Planning Heist In Copenhagen
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New Socialism Planning Heist In Copenhagen
By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER
In the 1970s and early ’80s, having seized control of the U.N. apparatus (by power of numbers), Third World countries decided to cash in. OPEC was pulling off the greatest wealth transfer from rich to poor in history. Why not them? So in grand U.N. [...]
Charles Krauthammer: A Call To Arms So Ambivalent And Dispiriting
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A Call To Arms So Ambivalent And Dispiriting
By Charles Krauthammer
We shall fight in the air, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields, we shall fight in the hills — for 18 months. Then we start packing for home.
We shall never surrender — unless the war gets [...]
Charles Krauthammer: Kill the Bills. Do Health Reform Right
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Kill the Bills. Do Health Reform Right
by Charles Krauthammer
The United States has the best health care in the world — but because of its inefficiencies, also the most expensive. The fundamental problem with the 2,074-page Senate health-care bill (as with its 2,014-page House counterpart) is that it wildly compounds the complexity by adding [...]
Charles Krauthammer: Medicalizing Mass Murder
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Medicalizing Mass Murder
by Charles Krauthammer
What a surprise — that someone who shouts “Allahu Akbar” (the “God is great” jihadist battle cry) as he is shooting up a room of American soldiers might have Islamist motives. It certainly was a surprise to the mainstream media, which spent the weekend after the Fort Hood [...]