George Will: No (Political) Experience Required

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No (Political) Experience Required
by George Will
Stiffening their sinews and summoning up their blood, pugnacious liberals and conservatives who relish contemporary Washington’s recurring Armageddons are eager for a summer-long struggle over Barack Obama’s nominee to replace Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens. They should pause and ponder how recently and radically the confirmation process [...]

George Will: Mrs. Jellyby, Stuck in the Sixties

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Mrs. Jellyby, Stuck in the Sixties
by George Will
Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, like many liberals, seems afflicted by Sixties Nostalgia Syndrome, a longing for the high drama and moral clarity of the civil rights era. Speaking in Alabama at Selma’s Edmund Pettus Bridge on the 45th anniversary of the “Bloody Sunday” march, Duncan [...]

George Will: Off-The-Cliff, But Catching On

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Off-The-Cliff, But Catching On
by George Will
You know the foreboding you feel while watching the steamier Greek tragedies, when dynasties are falling and sons are marrying their mothers and everyone is behaving badly and you are thinking: Really, things cannot continue like this.
Washington feels that way on the rare and fleeting occasions when it [...]

George Will: Could a Wave be Building?

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Could a Wave be Building?
by George Will
Demure Delaware was the first state to ratify the Constitution, but since then has not made many waves. It might, however, be part of a political wave a year from now, thanks to a direct descendent of Benjamin Franklin.
The great man’s great-great-great-great-great grandson, Mike Castle, 70, [...]

George Will: Have We Got a Deal For You

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Have We Got a Deal For You
by George Will
“I,” said the president, who is inordinately fond of the first-person singular pronoun, “want to disabuse people of this notion that somehow we enjoy meddling in the private sector.” He said that in March, when the government already owned 80 percent of [...]

George Will: Tincture of Lawlessness

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Tincture of Lawlessness
by George Will
Anyone, said T.S. Eliot, could carve a goose, were it not for the bones. And anyone could govern as boldly as their whims decreed, were it not for the skeletal structure that keeps civil society civil — the rule of law. The Obama administration is bold. It [...]

George Will: Racing Past the Constitution

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Racing Past the Constitution
by George Will
Rampant redistribution of wealth by government is now the norm. So is this: It inflames government’s natural rapaciousness and subverts the rule of law. This degeneration of governance is illustrated by the Illinois Legislature’s transfer of income from some disfavored riverboat casinos to racetracks.
Illinois has [...]

George Will: An Insufficiency of Fear

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An Insufficiency of Fear
by George Will

The president, convinced that the only thing America has to fear is an insufficiency of fear, has warned that “disaster” and “catastrophe” are the certain alternatives to swift passage of the stimulus legislation. One marvels at his certitude more than one envies his [...]

George Will: Toward the Grand Bargain

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Toward the Grand Bargain
by George Will

Days before becoming responsible, in the eyes of a public fixated on the presidency, for almost everything, Barack Obama vowed to convene a “fiscal responsibility summit.” It will consider the economy’s long-term problems, one of which is the growing cost of entitlements in [...]

George Will: American Czars

George Will looks at the concept behind President-Elect Obama’s proposed ‘Car Czar.’ Read the whole story at Townhall.com…
American Czars
by George Will

In 1966, the price of eggs rose to a level that President Lyndon Johnson judged, God knows how, was too high. There were two culprits — supply and demand — and Johnson’s agriculture secretary [...]