David Frum
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The real Jane Harman scandal
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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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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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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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Obama's stimulus: Cheap politics, costly consequences
opinion Perhaps results would have been better had the stimulus been directed at the economy instead of at the 2010 campaign.
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The reckless Right courts violence
opinion Hysterical talk from TV and radio hosts may be a cynical marketing exercise. But it's getting too dangerous to ignore.
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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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Jack Kemp's gift—and curse—to GOP
opinion Unfortunately, while [his] positive legacy goes for the moment unclaimed, Kemp’s negative legacy has been eagerly embraced. Like some of his political heirs, Kemp not only hoped for the best, too often he was willing to gamble the futu
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Terrorists should keep their citizenship
feature If the goal is to expedite the interrogation and punishment of terrorists, this is precisely the wrong way to achieve it
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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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Qaddafi's gift to Obama
opinion The hero's welcome given to the convicted Lockerbie bomber in Tripoli diverted media attention from embarrassing questions about the bomber's release to the much easier issue of the bomber's reception. ... President Obama is unlikely now to have
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How to rebuild the GOP
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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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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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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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Lessons learned from the Palin debacle
feature How to avoid another disastrous Republican national nomination
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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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Obama's cynical Afghan ploy
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The trillion-dollar tedium of health reform
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Helen Thomas and other weapons of mass distraction
feature Cast alongside a preening, camera-ready White House press corps, Helen Thomas was different. But she certainly wasn't "tough."
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