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As Should Be Obvious
I’ve been around the political debate long enough to know the game people like Keith Olbermann like to play, and to refuse to play it with them.
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Better Tool for Portability
Health care portability is an important goal. But COBRA isn’t the right way to do it, subsidy or not.
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Ship of State
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On Kids At Liberty
To enjoy this television series, you don’t even have to watch it in long stretches, with a winter storm raging outside.
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‘Holmes’ Movie Not Worthy of Conan Doyle Canon
It is a watchable and even enjoyable film for fans of Doyle’s characters, but with the original Holmes concentrated, enhanced, and caffeinated for the American market, any trace of intellect or nuance is gone in favor of beautifully choreographed fight scenes and big-budget spectacle. While large box office receipts and plentiful hooks for a Moriarty-centered sequel all but guarantee a successor, this blockbuster reboot of the series adds nothing worthwhile to the canon.
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Paul Johnson’s Churchill Concise, Enjoyable, and a Joy to Read
The man who would be Britain's first lord of the admiralty in World War I and prime minister in World War II held an officer's commission in both conflicts and commanded troops in the trenches personally. He modernized the Royal Navy, invented the tank, championed the Royal Air Force when others would not, and warned England of the threat of Nazism for years while all others declared both him and Hitler crackpots. The same year he slipped away from the Afrikaners he was elected to Parliament, at the age of 26, where he served for five and a half decades. As a journalist, author, and statesman, he may have put as many as 10 million words in print.
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Griswold: Trade Not Job-Loss Culprit
Griswold’s final recommendation: National leaders should extol the benefits of competition from imports. Free trade is a matter of good economics, justice, fairness, and social equity, he concludes. After reading his book and examining the data, you may find it harder to disagree.
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Stay the course
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Opportunity Costs: The Sacrifice of the Road Not Traveled
During his State of the Union address, the president unwittingly underscored the importance of considering both “seen” and “unseen” consequences of political choices.
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North Carolina Stimulus Spending Stimulated Government
RALEIGH -- In 2008 the federal government launched a bailout program unlike any seen since the Great Depression. The government borrowed more money, increasing the national debt. Americans were given tax rebate checks to get the economy moving.
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