George Will
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JFK’s Berlin blunderAug 17, 2011 5:00 am - Fifty years ago, a metaphor became concrete. Beginning on Aug. 13, 1961, along West Berlin’s 27-mile border, the Iron Curtain became tangible in a wall of precast slabs ...
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Economic stress across the pondAug 11, 2011 12:00 am - LONDON — The chancellor of the exchequer has a dry, sly sense of humor. George Osborne, 40, says Britain escaped the sort of housing bubble and crash that staggered Amer...
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A clarifying debateAug 04, 2011 12:00 am - The story is that as Mark Twain and novelist William Dean Howells stepped outside one morning, a downpour began and Howells asked Twain, “Do you think it will stop?” Twa...
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Note to tea party: Don’t help ObamaJul 22, 2011 2:00 am - The tea party, the most welcome political development since the Goldwater insurgency in 1964, lacks only the patience necessary when America lacks the consensus required...
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Warming up for Alibi IkeJul 13, 2011 12:00 am - “If he popped up in the pinch he should of made a base hit and the reason he didn’t was so-and-so. And if he cracked one for three bases he ought to had a home run, only...
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The dream of home ownership gone awryJul 07, 2011 12:00 am - “The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.” — Emerson The louder they talked about the disadvantaged, the more money they made. And the m...
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First Amendment showdown on campaign financeJul 03, 2011 12:00 am - The fate of Arizona’s Clean Elections Act, which the Supreme Court last week declared unconstitutional, was foreshadowed March 28, during oral arguments. Lawyers defend...
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A Texan’s ‘exceptionalism’Jun 28, 2011 12:00 am - In the 1850s, on the steps of the Waco courthouse, Wallace Jefferson’s great-great grandfather was sold. Today, Jefferson is chief justice of Texas’ Supreme Court. The g...
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Libya and the Potemkin allianceJun 21, 2011 12:00 am - America’s intervention in Libya’s civil war, the most protracted and least surreptitious assassination attempt in history, was supposed to last “days, not weeks,” but is...
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Hispanics and the GOP’s futureJun 15, 2011 12:00 am - DALLAS — For a conservative Texan seeking national office, it could hardly get better than this: In a recent 48-hour span, Ted Cruz, a candidate for next year’s Republic...