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February 22, 2013

Argentina Doesn't Want the Truth

We're going to need a new term to describe the tribunal established by Iran and Argentina to investigate the 1994 bombing of the Jewish community center. An untruth commission perhaps?
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Published on February 22, 2013 08:00

The GOP Should Stop Worrying About Income Taxes (For Now)

It's still not 1980 anymore, and if the GOP wishes to rebuild a formidable coalition on the level of Reagan's Revolution, we'll need more just a cosmetic makeover.
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Published on February 22, 2013 05:10

How Will Republicans Win in 2024?

Vox Populi, Georgetown University's weekly newsmagazine, wrote up my recent visit with the school's College Republicans:
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Published on February 22, 2013 04:30

February 21, 2013

How Can We Help the Boys?

Christina Hoff Sommers and Michael Kimmel, in the latest for the Huffington Post's "Let's Talk" feature, seem to agree that men are falling behind women, but view the issues from opposing perspectives.
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Published on February 21, 2013 15:43

Playboy's Slide Into Irrelevance

The Wall Street Journal reports today on the (not totally unwelcome) decline Playboy Enterprises.
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Published on February 21, 2013 12:31

Home News, Part 2

I'll be talking my fool head off at public events these coming two weeks. I'm heading this weekend to Warsaw to join the celebrations of the 50th birthday of Radek Sikorski, Polish foreign minister and the husband of my wife's co-author, Anne Applebaum.
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Published on February 21, 2013 12:00

Don't Bail Out the States

The state of Illinois faces the worst pension fund shortfall in the nation. Terrifying as are the state's unfunded liabilities, however, it also counts one imposing asset: an Illinois president in the White House. Will President Obama say "yes" when Illinois comes asking? Not if he listens to Brett Joshpe at Forbes.com:
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Published on February 21, 2013 10:59

What Comes After the Tea Party?

The Claremont Review of Books has been hosting an interesting discussion of new books by Geoffrey Kabaservice and me that deal with the past and the future of the Republican party.
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Published on February 21, 2013 10:22

It's All in the (Jackson) Family

As Jesse Jackson Jr. likely heads to prison, let's recall the sordid business career of the founder of the family dynasty.
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Published on February 21, 2013 08:53

The South's 'Original Sin'

Michael Lind warns of the spread to the whole United States of a distinctly Southern labor model.
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Published on February 21, 2013 07:45

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