Charles Krauthammer
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The great Ponzi debateSep 19, 2011 6:01 am - The Great Social Security Debate, Proposition 1: Of course it’s a Ponzi scheme. In a Ponzi scheme, the people who invest early get their money out with dividends. But t...
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The 9/11 ‘overreaction”? Nonsense.Sep 12, 2011 12:01 am - The new conventional wisdom on 9/11: We have created a decade of fear. We overreacted to 9/11 — al-Qaida turned out to be a paper tiger; there never was a second attack ...
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The best show in townSep 06, 2011 3:50 am - In that fleeting interval between earthquake/hurricane and the president’s 57th (or so) major national address next Thursday, I can finally devote a summer column to the...
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King, in word and stoneAug 29, 2011 5:16 am - It is one of the enduring mysteries of American history — so near-providential as to give the most hardened atheist pause — that it should have produced, at every hinge ...
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Back luck? Bad faith?Aug 22, 2011 5:01 am - “We had reversed the recession, avoided a depression, got the economy moving again. ... But over the last six months, we’ve had a run of bad luck.” — President Obama, De...
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The system’s not broken — it worksAug 15, 2011 4:01 am - Of all the endlessly repeated conventional wisdom in today’s Washington, the most lazy, stupid and ubiquitous is that our politics is broken. On the contrary. Our politi...
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Three stages to U.S. budget solutionAug 08, 2011 4:45 am - Conventional wisdom holds that the congressional super-committee established by the debt-ceiling deal to propose further deficit reduction will go nowhere. I’m not so su...
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The great divideJul 31, 2011 5:01 am - We’re in the midst of a great four-year national debate on the size and reach of government, the future of the welfare state, indeed, the nature of the social contract b...
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Dare Obama to veto ‘half-trillion plan’Jul 24, 2011 5:01 am - The debt ceiling looms. Confusion reigns. Schemes abound. We are deep in a hole with, as of now, only three ways out: the McConnell plan, the G6 plan and the Half-Trilli...
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Now is the time to call Obama’s bluffJul 15, 2011 3:01 am - President Obama is demanding a big long-term budget deal. He won’t sign anything less, he warns, asking, “If not now, when?” How about last December, when he ignored hi...