As I write this, President Barack Obama has just recently concluded his big, televised summit with congressional Republicans and Democrats. The idea was pitched as a way to move forward with health care reform, but both sides had staked out their positions in advance, so it’s no great surprise that nothing really unexpected happened. The […]
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Within the past year President Barack Obama gave speeches about a world without nuclear weapons. Iran, some people are arguing, seems intent on going in the other direction, based on their experiments with uranium and other moves on their part. Russia and Germany are encouraging the Iranians to change course. The United States is pushing
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In the last few weeks several prominent Democratic politicians have announced that they will not be seeking re-election. Senator Evan Bayh of Indiana, Representative Patrick Kennedy of Rhode Island, Senator Christopher Dodd of Connecticut, Senator Byron Dorgan of North Dakota, and several others have decided to pursue other options. Why? The simple, though not entirely accurate,
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I read multiple articles in the Washington Post recently where writers sought to examine an alleged problem among liberals. These writers pointed out that some influential liberals have a tendency to dismiss conservative ideas because these liberals assume that conservative thought has no validity. Thus, the argument goes, whenever anyone is advocating a conservative cause
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I remember watching a TV series called “Space: 1999” when I was a kid in the 1970s. It had this great vision of what life would be like in what was then the future–we would have a moon base and Martin Landau would be in charge of it. What could be better? Well, in real
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