Charles Krauthammer
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The selective modesty of Barack ObamaAug 09, 2010 4:41 pm - Remember NASA? It once represented to the world the apogee of American scientific and technological achievement. Here is President Obama's vision of NASA's mission, as e...
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Candor - and terrorAug 09, 2010 5:11 pm - The Fort Hood shooter, the Christmas Day bomber, the Times Square attacker. On May 13, the following exchange occurred at a hearing of the House Judiciary Committee: Re...
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The Afghan conundrumAug 09, 2010 5:43 pm - President Obama was fully justified in dismissing Gen. Stanley McChrystal. The firing offense did not rise to the level of insubordination - this was no MacArthur underm...
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Obama and the vision thingAug 09, 2010 6:06 pm - Barack Obama doesn't do the mundane. He was sent to us to do larger things. You could see that plainly in his Oval Office address on the Gulf oil spill. He could barely ...
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The myth of Iran's 'isolation'Aug 03, 2010 6:41 pm - In announcing the passage of a U.N. Security Council resolution imposing sanctions on Iran, President Obama stressed not once but twice Iran's increasing "isolation" fro...
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Modernizing Miranda: a new consensus?Aug 04, 2010 1:00 pm - It's not often that I agree with Attorney General Eric Holder. But, then again, it's not often that Holder publicly embraces an anti-terrorism measure I proposed 48 hour...
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Miranda and public safetyAug 04, 2010 1:51 pm - "(Law enforcement) interviewed Mr. Shahzad ... under the public safety exception to the Miranda rule. ... He was eventually ... Mirandized and continued talking." - John...
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The joy of losingAug 11, 2010 4:11 pm - Among my various idiosyncrasies, such as (twice) driving from Washington to New York to watch a world championship chess match, the most baffling to my friends is my ste...
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Nuclear posturing, part deuxAug 11, 2010 4:50 pm - There was something oddly disproportionate about the just-concluded nuclear summit to which President Obama summoned 46 world leaders, the largest such gathering on Amer...
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Nuclear posturing, Obama styleAug 11, 2010 5:31 pm - Nuclear doctrine consists of thinking the unthinkable. It involves making threats and promising retaliation that is cruel and destructive beyond imagining. But it has it...