David Frum
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ObamaCare's stealth assault on small business
feature An obscure provision in the new health-care law will require entrepreneurs to spend a great deal more time filling out tax forms. It’s not the sort of change that should have been sneaked through
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In defense of Arizona
feature The state's new law targeting illegal immigrants isn't racist. It's an effort to ease the worst effects of a problem that's grown intolerable.
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Angry GOP voters flirt with danger in Kentucky
feature Rand Paul is poised to be the GOP senate nominee in Kentucky. Republicans there are determined to send a message — even if it hurts.
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Will Republicans learn from Cameron Conservatives?
feature Tory leader David Cameron has promised not to deliver more conservatism than the electorate will bear. The GOP would do well to study his method
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Poland makes peace with its Jews
feature Outside of Israel, I've never seen Jewish history commemorated the way it is in Poland
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Drilling without illusions
feature President Obama's flip-flop on off-shore oil drilling is good news. But it won't end our dependence on foreign supplies and it will be accompanied by a new round of regulatory entanglements. There's a better way.
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Not so fast, Tea Partiers
feature Why a big win in November will only strengthen the case for moderate reform of the Republican Party
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Dine and dash?
feature Politicians are jockeying for advantage as the bill comes due on our gaping national debt. But without an agreement soon, we'll all be stuck with the check
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Get rich slow
feature A cheap U.S. dollar is no fun, but it will get the job done
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The GOP's health-care dilemma
feature Coverage for all: We do it, why not say it?
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What the GOP can — and can't — learn from Canada's Conservatives
feature Canada's right-wing party won control of Parliament this month — but their strategy on immigration and hardline Tea Party-types wouldn't work in the U.S.
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Obama's doomed green jobs plan
feature Just tax oil and let markets do the rest
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It's hard out there for a pimp
feature Who was James O'Keefe really punking?
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Soaking the super rich
feature Some Democrats have begun contemplating a new tax rate to apply exclusively to the super rich. It's a terrible idea
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Mubarak's bid to hold power 7 months longer can only provoke
feature America needs a new plan
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A budget that can't budge
feature The Ryan Plan won't become law. So what's it for?
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We don't need another Churchill to win in Afghanistan
feature Pundits have dismissed Obama's West Point speech as pedestrian and uninspiring. Is there something wrong with that?
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What Obama should say in his Nobel speech
feature Obama's speech in Oslo Thursday has as many potential pitfalls as his speech at West Point last week. Here's what he should—and shouldn't— say.
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Is Obama a brute or a pushover?
feature Republicans keep seeing double when they look at the president. For a clearer view, they should watch less Glenn Beck and more Saturday Night Live.
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How Shelby's hold exposes Obama's failure
feature The White House broke GOP Sen. Richard Shelby's hold on appointees in hours. Why can't it break a GOP filibuster of health care legislation?
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An alternate history of Obamacare
feature With a little less partisan zeal and a little more humility, the president could have earned the popular support he needed to pursue the liberal Holy Grail.
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