Michael Gerson
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A founding document for a new ChinaMay 15, 2011 12:00 am - Over the last five Sundays, more than 100 members of the Shouwang Church in Beijing have been detained to prevent them from meeting. It is a confrontation between state ...
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A visit to PaulsvilleMay 10, 2011 2:00 am - Before last week’s South Carolina Republican debate, Ron Paul supporters complained that their candidate was not getting the first-tier attention his polling and fundrai...
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Peering onto the New Hampshire tea leavesMay 05, 2011 2:00 am - MANCHESTER, N.H. — The sudden end of Osama bin Laden’s career of homicide does not ensure President Obama’s re-election. But it does remove an obstacle. On foreign polic...
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Author of the earthquakeMay 02, 2011 11:00 pm - On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, with President Bush visiting Florida, I was working from home in Alexandria, Va., on some forgotten domestic speech the president never...
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Who's passing, who's failing the deficit testApr 28, 2011 12:00 am - The deficit debate, now fully engaged, is also an evaluation of political seriousness. House Republican leaders have passed the test, supporting a politically risky bud...
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Ayn Rand's adult-onset adolescenceApr 25, 2011 12:00 am - The movie “Atlas Shrugged,” adapted from Ayn Rand's 1957 novel by the same name, is a triumph of cinematic irony. A work that lectures us endlessly on the moral superior...
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Inspection season in IowaApr 21, 2011 12:00 am - DES MOINES, Iowa — This state, about 10 months from its caucuses, is a flat, fertile, friendly political vacuum. The Republican candidates who finished first and second ...
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Obama’s grand repositioningApr 18, 2011 1:00 am - Intentional or not, it sizzled with symbolism that President Obama announced his re-election campaign the same day his administration threw in the towel on the closing o...
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Budget cuts with consequencesApr 08, 2011 12:00 am - So far in the budget debate, the Obama administration has drawn few bright lines, preferring to blur distinctions with concessions. But last week, a neon line was drawn ...
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Cornered GOP braces for more important fightApr 05, 2011 12:00 am - If there were any doubts about the political skills of the new White House team under Chief of Staff William Daley, they have now been satisfied. Recently, the Congress...