Charles Krauthammer
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The Norquist mythNov 28, 2011 4:01 am - Democrats are unanimous in charging that the debt-reduction supercommittee collapsed because Republicans refused to raise taxes. Apparently, Republicans are in the thral...
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Pipeline decision favors election calendarNov 20, 2011 4:01 am - In 2008, the slogan was “Yes We Can.” For 2011-12, it’s “We Can’t Wait.” What happened in between? Candidate Obama, the vessel into which myriad dreams were poured, met ...
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The 2011 elections: split decisionNov 11, 2011 3:01 am - The 2011 off-year elections are a warning to Republicans. The 2010 party is over. 2012 will be a struggle. To be sure, Tuesday was not exactly the Democrats’ night. They...
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Who lost Iraq?Nov 06, 2011 5:01 am - Barack Obama was a principled opponent of the Iraq War from its beginning. But when he became president in January 2009, he was handed a war that was won. The surge had ...
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An execution to warn other dictatorsNov 01, 2011 6:01 am - You’ve got your Mexican standoff, your Russian roulette, your Chinese water torture. And now, your Libyan crossfire. That’s when a pistol is applied to the head and a bu...
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Punch-out in the Vegas desertOct 23, 2011 11:37 am - On Tuesday night, seismologists at the Las Vegas Oceanographic Institute reported the first recorded movement of a hair on Mitt Romney’s head. Although it was only one f...
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The scapegoat strategyOct 17, 2011 5:01 am - What do you do if you can’t run on your record -- on 9 percent unemployment, stagnant growth and ruinous deficits as far as the eye can see? How to run when you are aske...
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Shaking the foundations of modern physicsOct 09, 2011 8:44 pm - “We don’t allow faster-than-light neutrinos in here,” says the bartender. A neutrino walks into a bar. #8212; Joke circulating on the Internet The worl...
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Why Abbas went to the U.N.Oct 03, 2011 4:01 am - While diplomatically inconvenient for the Western powers, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ attempt to get the U.N. to unilaterally declare a Palestinian st...
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The return of the real ObamaSep 24, 2011 4:01 am - In a 2008 debate, Charlie Gibson asked Barack Obama about his support for raising capital gains taxes, given the historical record of government losing net revenue as a ...