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The Clintons Just Won't Learn
via RealClearPolitics - Articles by (author unknown) on February 26, 2008
Whether one likes, dislikes, loves, hates, admires, fears, despises, or envies them, every Clinton watcher has this in common: They are dumbfounded both by the incompetence with which Hillary has run for president and her intransigence at sticking to a failed message. In a demonstration of inability and inflexibility reminiscent of her healthcare debacle of 1993-94, Mrs. Clinton seems destined to...
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Truth About Nationalized Health Care
via RealClearPolitics - Articles by (author unknown) on February 26, 2008
... Dennis Kucinich had a plan, Bill Richardson had a plan. Because we're Democrats ..." Clinton said.But Obama, in his Bob the Builder campaign designed to appeal to the toddler in every American, offers a plan that is all gain and no pain: subsidized health insurance for anyone who wants to buy it, whenever they want to buy it. More money, more choice, no cost. Gee, what's not to like?
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The Suicide of Emma Beck and Silence No More
via RealClearPolitics - Articles by (author unknown) on February 26, 2008
She didn't have to die. And neither did her unborn children. Over the weekend, London newspapers reported on the 2007 suicide of 30-year-old Emma Beck, a young British artist who hung herself after the abortion of her twin babies. Perhaps the retelling of her suffering can prevent more needless deaths. The agony and loneliness in Emma Beck's suicide note resonate across the...
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Guns Save Lives
via RealClearPolitics - Articles by (author unknown) on February 26, 2008
It's all too predictable. A day after a gunman killed six people and wounded 18 others at Northern Illinois University, The New York Times criticized the U.S. Interior Department for preparing to rethink its ban on guns in national parks. The editorial board wants "the 51 senators who like the thought of guns in the parks -- and everywhere else, it seems -- to realize that the...
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Congress Punishes American Oil
via RealClearPolitics - Articles by (author unknown) on March 06, 2008
In a relentless resolve to craft national energy policy, House Democrats last week passed an energy tax bill for the third time and the bill is headed to the Senate. With oil clearing the $100 benchmark and ongoing instability in key oil producing regions of the globe, politicians in Washington want credit for some form of energy legislation, even if it is wrong for the country. What Congress...
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The Myth of America's Unpopularity
via RealClearPolitics - Articles by (author unknown) on March 06, 2008
WASHINGTON -- The one goal that unites and explains the Democratic approach to foreign policy is this: America must try -- urgently and desperately -- to be more popular in the world. "The world was with us after 9/11," explains Hillary Clinton. "We have so squandered that good will and we've got to rebuild it." Barack Obama has said that the "single most important issue" of the current...
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Moral Claims: Clinton vs. Obama
via RealClearPolitics - Articles by (author unknown) on March 06, 2008
Clinton: I've won all the big states except Illinois, my opponent's home state. I've also won most of the delegates in states that were seriously contested. Obama played a clever game, but I'm clearly the nominee with the greater support.Obama: That's ridiculous. If you don't fight in Virginia, that doesn't mean Virginia doesn't count. And you did fight in...
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Buckley, Legal Drugs & My Evolving View
via RealClearPolitics - Articles by (author unknown) on March 09, 2008
When William F. Buckley died Feb. 27, I thought a tribute column would be in order. But rather than walk in the footsteps of others who have sung his praises, I decided to do something that genuinely invokes his legacy of lively debate: a hard look at one of the most controversial views he held.Mr. Buckley was a conservative's conservative, a modern icon of what it means to favor less...
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Al-Qaida's Fading Victory: The Madrid Precedent
via RealClearPolitics - Articles by (author unknown) on March 11, 2008
Al-Qaida's terror attacks on March 11, 2004 (just prior to Spain's national elections), sought to establish the "Madrid Precedent," a strategic extension of what al-Qaida's planners in their "Letters to the Africa Corps" had called the examples of Mogadishu, Somalia, and Beirut, Lebanon. Stated crudely, Beirut (U.S. Marine barracks, 1983) and Mogadishu ("Blackhawk Down," 1993) told...
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Worlds Apart Morally
via RealClearPolitics - Articles by (author unknown) on March 13, 2008
When the sirens wail in the southern Israeli town of Sderot, residents have just 16 seconds to reach shelter before the rockets fall. In the last month, the sirens have been sounding almost continuously as Sderot and (in the last several weeks) nearby Ashkelon, a city of 117,000 that traces its history back to the Canaanites, have been targeted by 50 rockets a day. The elderly, who cannot sprint...
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