George Will
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The ghosts of Watergate returnFeb 25, 2012 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON — In 1960, when Thomas Mallon was in the fourth grade, he wore his Nixon-Lodge button to school and warned classmates that John Kennedy was too inexperienced ...
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Reasons to like (and honor) IkeFeb 20, 2012 11:00 pm - Two coming developments, one dismal and one excellent, pertain to America’s memory of a great man. One of several oversight panels soon will consider a proposed memorial...
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GOP’s murky rhetoric on national defenseFeb 10, 2012 4:00 am - Through 11 presidential elections, beginning with the Democrats’ nomination of George McGovern in 1972, Republicans have enjoyed a presumption of superiority regarding n...
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Bailing an ocean with a thimbleFeb 05, 2012 4:00 am - The worst day of Sugar Bear’s 55 years was one of the days — there have been many of them — when he got out of prison. In the early 1990s, in a prison where persons whos...
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Onward civilian soldiersJan 31, 2012 4:00 am - War, said James Madison, is “the true nurse of executive aggrandizement.” Randolph Bourne, the radical essayist killed by the influenza unleashed by World War I, warned,...
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The odd new positives for RomneyJan 25, 2012 4:00 am - An Illinois lawyer who had a way with words once characterized a particular argument as weaker than soup made from the shadow of a pigeon that died of starvation. The ar...
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Running competitiveness agroundJan 18, 2012 4:00 am - CHARLESTON, S.C. — Thanks to globalization, and to containerized shipping that began in 1956 and makes globalization work, commodities swiftly move vast distances around...
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The redistributionist behemothJan 08, 2012 5:24 am - Liberals have a rendezvous with regret. Their largest achievement is today’s redistributionist government. But such government is inherently regressive: It tends to dist...
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Ringing in a conservative yearJan 03, 2012 4:00 am - Although they have become prone to apocalyptic forebodings about the fragility of the nation’s institutions and traditions under the current president, conservatives sho...
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Testing the waters of economic libertyDec 18, 2011 4:47 am - In 1927, seven years before the board game was created, Washington state decided to play monopoly. It gave a private interest the exclusive right to operate a ferry on 5...