Charles Krauthammer
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European-style sales tax on its wayAug 06, 2010 2:13 pm - As the night follows the day, the VAT cometh. With the passage of Obamacare, creating a vast new middle-class entitlement, a national sales tax of the kind near-univers...
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The Biden incidentAug 06, 2010 2:38 pm - Why did President Barack Obama choose to turn a gaffe into a crisis in U.S.-Israeli relations? And a gaffe it was: the announcement by a bureaucrat in the Interior Mini...
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In praise of the rotation of powerAug 06, 2010 3:02 pm - As the Afghanistan War intensifies - Marja, soon Kandahar, and the steady arrival of 30,000 new American troops - it has come to be seen as Obama's war. Not so. It's bec...
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Onward, he said, regardlessAug 06, 2010 3:51 pm - So the yearlong production saw the curtain raised one last time. Obamacare lives. After 34 speeches, three sharp electoral rebukes and a seven-hour seminar, the presiden...
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Toyota and the price of modernityAug 06, 2010 4:40 pm - Amazingly, the congressional hearings on Toyota were relatively civilized. This was remarkable given the drama of some of the testimony, such as that from a tearful Rhon...
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Ungovernable? It's not the people's faultAug 16, 2010 10:51 am - 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 si...
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Closing the new frontierAug 16, 2010 12:01 pm - "We have an agreement until 2012 that Russia will be responsible for this," says Anatoly Perminov, head of the Russian space agency, about ferrying astronauts from other...
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The meaning of BrownAug 16, 2010 2:31 pm - On Jan. 14, five days before the Massachusetts special election, President Obama was in full bring-it-on mode as he rallied House Democrats behind his health care reform...
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The Gitmo obsessionAug 16, 2010 4:01 pm - Nigerian would-be bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was indicted by a Michigan grand jury for attempted murder and sundry other criminal charges. The day before, the Stat...
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War? What war?Aug 16, 2010 4:40 pm - 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 a...