George Will
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Is this really the best McCain can do?Nov 05, 2021 3:24 pm - Time was, the Baltimore Orioles manager was Earl Weaver, an irascible, Napoleonic figure who, when cranky, would shout at an umpire, "Are you going to get any better or ...
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Bailout decision will help define next presidencyNov 05, 2021 1:00 pm - Members of Congress are being exhorted to stampede, like lemmings in reverse, away from a postulated cliff. But some of the economic geographers who say they know that t...
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McCain on same road as SchwarzeneggerNov 04, 2021 11:02 pm - WASHINGTON - If John McCain becomes president, he will be confronted by a Congress with significantly larger Democratic majorities than today's - majorities furious abou...
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Obama's financial ideals too idealisticNov 04, 2021 10:09 pm - WASHINGTON - Barack Obama has made his economic thinking excruciatingly clear, so it also is clear that his running mate should have been not Joe Biden, but Rumpelstilts...
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Georgian crisis elevates presidential raceNov 04, 2021 8:24 pm - Asked in 1957 what would determine his government's course, Harold Macmillan, Britain's new prime minister, replied, "Events, dear boy, events." Now, into America's triv...
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Not much substance to Obama's eloquenceNov 04, 2021 7:30 pm - As the presidential candidates enter the three-month sprint to November, Barack Obama must be wondering: If that did not do it, what will? The antecedent of the pronoun ...
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Immigration policy that works against economic growthNov 04, 2021 1:25 pm - PALO ALTO, Calif. -- Fifty years ago, Jack Kilby, who grew up in Great Bend, Kan., took the electrical engineering knowledge he acquired as an undergraduate at the Unive...
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Is it time to take video replay cameras to the old ball game?Nov 04, 2021 12:42 pm - "Baseball is the only thing besides the paper clip that hasn't changed." -- Bill Veeck One must say it ain't so. Think of the designated hitter, which illustrates why...
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McCain needs to do some homework on habeas corpus rulingNov 04, 2021 11:33 am - The day after the Supreme Court ruled that detainees imprisoned at Guantanamo are entitled to seek habeas corpus hearings, John McCain called it "one of the worst decisi...
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Putting Clinton on his ticket would be a bad move by ObamaNov 04, 2021 10:30 am - An axiom. When voters watch a presumptive presidential nominee considering this or that running mate, they think: What if the president dies? When the presumptive nomine...