David Frum
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Afghanistan—a quagmire worth fighting for
opinion George Will may be right that Afghanistan is not the Good War. But it's a "good enough" war, and despite all the travails, the U.S. can't afford to lose it.
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A false lesson on climate change
feature The conduct of climate scientists at the U.K.'s Climate Research Institute was scandalous. But what does that tell us about the validity of climate change?
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The many failures of Obama's Teddy Roosevelt speech
feature The president's diagnosis of our economic ailments is spot on. But his prescription is quack medicine
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Abraham Lincoln's Thanksgiving lessons
feature Sure, things look bad now. But compare today's plight to what our Civil-War-ravaged nation faced during the first official Thanksgiving in 1863
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Do you believe in magic?
feature The House speaker's debt-ceiling proposal is smoke and mirrors. That's what's good about it
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Obama's ugly campaign plan
feature Team Obama's supposed plan to mount a "ferocious personal assault" against Mitt Romney may just be an attempt to goad the Republican into damaging himself
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Lessons learned from the Palin debacle
feature How to avoid another disastrous Republican national nomination
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The debt deal's biggest losers
feature America's commitment to national security — and to our own poor, unemployed, and sick — should be called into question after this puzzling deal
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Lockerbie: The scandal of the decade?
feature The WikiLeaks cables offer more evidence the British government was complicit in the release of the Pan Am bomber
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A DREAM bill that's more like a nightmare
feature Harry Reid's legislation to provide amnesty for illegal aliens has no chance of passage. Here's why that's good news
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Give them something to say
feature The Republican presidential candidates need a good script to win over the public in 2012
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Why No Labels makes sense
feature I'm proud to remain a Republican. The object is to address the issues that can't be reduced to party dogma
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If I were a presidential candidate...
feature A look at what the GOP field should have been asked — and how the candidates should have responded — at Saturday's big foreign policy debate
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How Ryan set up Obama's comeback
feature The Republican plan to cut taxes and slash government health care spending gives the president prime opportunities for political victory
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The end of birtherism
feature Even fringe conspiracy theorists will have to abandon their birther delusions after Obama releases his birth certificate
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Life in the real world
feature On Main Street, it looks like there aren't any politicians willing to stand up for America's middle class
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The stimulus roundabout
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Obama's selective blindness
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Playing the odds on airport terrorism
feature A new book offers key insights on controlling crime. Can we apply itslessons to thwarting terrorists, too?
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Has the GOP learned its lesson too?
feature Scott Brown won in Massachusetts with a big-tent Republican campaign. Perhaps the GOP is coming to recognize that victory doesn't wear an ideological straitjacket.
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Obama chickens out on energy
feature Obama promised to break our addiction to foreign oil. A carbon tax would do that. What Obama proposes in his budget doesn't come close.
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Does Rand Paul understand his own conspiracy theories?
feature Rand Paul has strong beliefs. He's just too muddled to figure out what they might mean
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Obama at Gettysburg
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Obama's cynical Afghan ploy
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