George Will
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Subprime college educationsJun 12, 2012 5:00 am - Many parents and the children they send to college are paying rapidly rising prices for something of declining quality. This is because “quality” is not synonymous with ...
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Wisconsin’s temper tantrumJun 05, 2012 5:00 am - I’ll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up. No sir, Not I, Not me, So there! -- “Peter Pan” the musical, 1954 WAUWATOSA, Wis. -- This state, the first to let...
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A liberal squeeze playMay 30, 2012 5:00 am - In one of his characteristic conniptions about people who frustrated him, Theodore Roosevelt, progressivism’s first president, said of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, “I ...
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The menace of bipartisanshipMay 20, 2012 5:00 am - Bipartisanship, the supposed scarcity of which so distresses the high-minded, actually is disastrously prevalent. Since 2001, it has produced No Child Left Behind, a cou...
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The American dream in an automobileMay 14, 2012 12:00 pm - “You have a Prius. ... You probably compost, sort all your recycling, and have a reusable shopping bag for your short drive to Whole Foods. You are the best! So, do we r...
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Taking a scythe to the Bill of RightsMay 08, 2012 11:49 am - Controversies can be wonderfully clarified when people follow the logic of illogical premises to perverse conclusions. For example, two academics recently wrote in the B...
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Jon Will’s giftMay 03, 2012 1:00 am - When Jonathan Frederick Will was born 40 years ago — on May 4, 1972, his father’s 31st birthday — the life expectancy for people with Down syndrome was about 20 years. T...
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For Illinois, the bills come dueApr 27, 2012 1:00 am - After trying to tax Illinois to governmental solvency and economic dynamism, Pat Quinn, a Democrat who has been governor since 2009, now says “our rendezvous with realit...
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Cruel and unusual: a test caseApr 24, 2012 5:00 am - In the summer of 1787, just 94 years after the Salem witch trials, as paragons of the Enlightenment such as James Madison, George Washington and Benjamin Franklin delibe...
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Judging, the cosmic wayApr 20, 2012 1:00 am - Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III, a Reagan appointee to the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, is a courtly Virginian who combines a manner as soft as a Shenandoah breeze w...