Michael Gerson
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Sneaking fringe bigotry into national conversationSep 23, 2015 1:00 am - What is the proper response from a prospective president to the question: Is being a Muslim disqualifying for the presidency? Ben Carson answered that he "would not adv...
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Iran thumbs its nose at the U.S.Sep 16, 2015 1:00 am - Since the Iran nuclear deal was announced in mid-July, the world has been treated to an unusual historical spectacle. As President Obama was busy twisting congressional ...
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gerson.clm 0913Sep 13, 2015 1:00 am - Fourteen grim anniversaries separated from Sept. 11, 2001, some memories still come in high definition, like flashes of a strobe light. An email from my deputy I read a...
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Obama's largest failure - Syria's graveyard of American credibilitySep 10, 2015 1:00 am - One little boy in a red T-shirt, lying face down, drowned, on a Turkish beach, is a tragedy. More than 200,000 dead in Syria, 4 million fleeing refugees and 7.6 million ...
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Kim Davis is no Rosa ParksSep 08, 2015 1:00 am - Rosa Parks is an American hero, but her case was not an accident. Other African-Americans had shown similar defiance (ask Claudette Colvin, who refused to give up her se...
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The GOP's Trump dilemma: How to overcome futilitySep 02, 2015 1:00 am - "I don't want it to be about me," Donald Trump explained at a recent event in Nashville. In other news: War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength. The Trum...
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Hunting for a miracle on global warmingAug 18, 2015 1:00 am - In recognition that Internet questionnaires get more eyeballs than earnest columns on energy policy, here is today's quiz on obscure presidential history: When President...
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Help Trump marginalize himselfAug 12, 2015 1:00 am - In the first Republican debate, the klieg light that Donald Trump always carries around with him revealed four or five presidential candidates who, under the right circu...
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Help Trump marginalize himselfAug 12, 2015 1:00 am - In the first Republican debate, the klieg light that Donald Trump always carries around with him revealed four or five presidential candidates who, under the right circu...
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A great deal -- for IranAug 05, 2015 1:00 am - The realist's argument for the Iran nuclear agreement is that it is the least bad deal that a conflict-weary America could secure. Now, with the nuclear issue parked (at...