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Tuesday’s Elections and the Democratic Agenda

Democratic enthusiasm for President Barack Obama’s liberal domestic agenda—particularly for a government-run health insurance program—could wane after the results of the gubernatorial elections next Tuesday in Virginia and New Jersey. GOP victories in either state will tell Democrats in red states and districts that support for Obama’s policies is risky to their political health. Continue reading

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The Real Political Divide: Attitudes Toward America

What liberals believe needs to be changed or discarded and apologized for to other nations is precisely what conservatives are dedicating to preserving, reinvigorating and proudly defending against attack. Continue reading

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Where's the Party of Ideas?

Where now is the intellectual center of gravity — the thrill of innovation, the ideological momentum — in American politics? Not in the party of Obama. Continue reading

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Standing on Principle

While Conservatives and Liberals may share a common level of commitment to their core principles, the two camps could not be further apart in the approaches they take to carrying their beliefs into action. Is compromise an option, when America’s survival as a free society hangs in the balance? Continue reading

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McNamara and the Liberals' War

He deserves better from his liberal critics, since his real misfortune was to be the architect of their failed visions. Continue reading

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No More California Dreaming

California’s increasingly severe and largely self-inflicted economic crisis will deepen May 19 if, as is probable and desirable, voters reject most of the ballot measures that were drafted as part of a “solution” to the state’s budget deficit. They would make matters worse. National economic revival is being impeded because one-eighth of the nation’s population lives in a state that is driving itself into permanent stagnation. California’s perennial boast — that it is the incubator of America’s future — now has an increasingly dark urgency. Continue reading

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