Questionnaire and answer on the topic of troop surge | Chron.com – Houston Chronicle

William F Buckley Jr has an article on the thought process behind a vote on “the Surge” that starts like this…  You are a Republican legislator, retiring after this, your fifth

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Richard Cohen – Irrational Is as Irrational Does – washingtonpost.com

Today’s Washington Post Editorial by Richard Cohen goes a long way in making me understand the “inner” Bush that has seemed so out of touch with reality. Mr. Cohen gets

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A Heckuva Claim – washingtonpost.com

 This Washington Post Editorial touches on a number of points about the Bush tax cuts, most of which are not in the President’s favor. PRESIDENT BUSH wrote in a Wall

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David S. Broder – Suggester in Chief – washingtonpost.com

Just don’t “suggest” to the “decider” that he can’t do what he wants…He may pick up his ball and go home…  After an election in which war-weariness was a motivating force

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George F. Will – A Retreat on Rationing Free Speech? – washingtonpost.com

I read George Will’s column last evening and couldn’t wrap my mind around his argument. I revisited it this morning and find his bait and switch tactics perverse. A three-judge federal court

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RIP – Political Respect

Even in a holiday season, politics requires that politicians put in an appearance. Presidential funerals don’t happen often, when they do, you go. Nothing shows the depth of a man

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Robert D. Novak – Losing to the Greens – washingtonpost.com

 From the parallel universe of Robert Novak. “Environmentalists’ well-financed propaganda operation”…Does the man live in this universe? Industry has been spending many times the amounts the environmentalists have but the

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Charles Krauthammer – In Baker’s Blunder, A Chance For Bush – washingtonpost.com

 Isn’t this just so like the American cliche that the rest of the world sees…We don’t like the results of this messy thing called democracy so lets change the government

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