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Krauthammer: Overreach – Obamacare vs. the Constitution

Give him points for cleverness. President Obama’s birth control “accommodation” was as politically successful as it was morally meaningless. It was nothing but an accounting trick that still forces Catholic (and other religious) institutions to provide medical insurance that guarantees … Continue reading

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Krauthammer: Obama flees the fallout of his ill-starred actions

In the first month of his presidency, Barack Obama averred that if in three years he hadn’t alleviated the nation’s economic pain, he’d be a “one-term proposition.” When three-quarters of Americans think the country is on the “wrong track” and … Continue reading

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Krauthammer: The Pipeline Sellout (1)

Obama puts politics over nation, again. 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 the reality of governance. His … Continue reading

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Krauthammer: A Palestinian invitation to suicide

While diplomatically inconvenient for the western powers, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ attempt to get the UN to unilaterally declare a Palestinian state has elicited widespread sympathy. After all, what choice did he have? According to the accepted narrative, Middle … Continue reading

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Krauthammer: The System Works (2)

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 political system is working well (I make no such claims for our economy), indeed, … Continue reading

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Krauthammer: White House fumbles towards debt disaster (4)

WASHINGTON — Here we go again. An approaching crisis. A looming deadline. Nervous markets. And then, from the miasma of gridlock, rises the president, calling upon those unruly congressional children to quit squabbling, stop kicking the can down the road … Continue reading

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Krauthammer: The irrelevance of START

It’s a lame-duck session. Time is running out. Unemployment is high, the economy is dangerously weak and, with five weeks to go, no one knows what tax anyone will be paying on everything from income to dividends to death when … Continue reading

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Krauthammer: The great campaign of 2010 (5)

In a radio interview that aired Monday on Univision, President Obama chided Latinos who “sit out the election instead of saying, ‘We’re gonna punish our enemies and we’re gonna reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are … Continue reading

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Krauthammer: Obama Underappreciation Syndrome (1)

Democrats can call their opponents paranoid, but that won’t save them in November. In an increasingly desperate attempt to develop a narrative for the coming Democratic collapse, the Democrats have indulged themselves in what for half a century they’ve habitually … Continue reading

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