Articles filed under Krauthammer, Charles
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The right-to-work dilemma
Dec 17, 2012 5:00 AM - Columnist Charles Krauthammer: Right-to-work laws do weaken unions. And de-unionization can lead to lower wages. But there is another factor at play: having a job in the first place. In right-to-work states, the average wage is about 10 percent lower. But in right-to-work states, unemployment also is about 10 percent lower.
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It's nothing but a power play
Dec 10, 2012 5:00 AM - Columnist Charles Krauthammer: What should Republicans do? If Obama remains intransigent, let him be the one to take us over the cliff. And then let the new House, which is sworn in weeks before the president, immediately introduce and pass a full across-the-board restoration of the Bush tax cuts.
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Cliff jumping with Obama
Dec 3, 2012 3:42 PM - Columnist Charles Krauthammer: Why are Republicans playing the Democrats' game that the "fiscal cliff" is all about taxation?
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Why was there war in Gaza?
Nov 25, 2012 5:00 AM - Columnist Charles Krauthammer: Israel has once again succeeded in defending itself. But, yet again, only until the next round, which, as the night follows the day, will come. Hamas will see to that.
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The way forward
Nov 11, 2012 5:00 AM - Columnist Charles Krauthammer: Republicans: No whimpering. No whining. No reinvention when none is needed. Do conservatism, but do it better. There's a whole generation of leaders ready to do just that.
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The great, ideological choice
Nov 4, 2012 6:00 AM - Columnist Charles Krauthammer: Every four years we are told that the coming election is the most important of one's life. This time it might actually be true. At stake is the relation between citizen and state, the very nature of the American social contract.
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Obama stoops, doesn't conquer
Oct 28, 2012 5:00 AM - Columnist Charles Krauthammer: Romney chose to do a Reagan: Don't quarrel. Speak softly. Meet the threshold. We'll soon know whether steady-as-she-goes was the right choice.
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The great gaffe
Oct 21, 2012 5:00 AM - Columnist Charles Krauthammer: The rub for President Obama comes, ironically enough, out of Mitt Romney's biggest flub in the debate, the Libya question. That flub kept Romney from winning the evening outright. But Obama's answer has left him a hostage to fortune. Missed by Romney, missed by the audience, missed by most of the commentariat, it was the biggest gaffe of the entire debate cycle:
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The Big Bird counterattack
Oct 15, 2012 5:00 AM - Columnist Charles Krauthammer: Democrats are shellshocked and left searching for excuses. Start with scapegoats: the hapless John Kerry, Obama's sparring partner in the practice debates, for going too soft on the boss; then the debate moderator for not exerting enough control.
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Go large, Mitt
Sep 30, 2012 5:00 AM - Columnist Charles Krauthammer: Make the case. Go large. About a foreign policy in ruins. About an archaic, 20th-century welfare state model that guarantees 21st-century insolvency. And about an alternate vision of an unapologetically assertive America abroad unafraid of fundamental structural change at home.
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