Even if everything Secretary of State John Kerry says about chemical weapons in Syria were true, the evidence would prove only that Bashar al-Assad committed crimes against civilians. It would […]
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Stop and frisk
Two recent law-enforcement decisions illustrate yet again that when government sets out to solve a problem it created, things get much worse. Attorney General Eric Holder announced that the Justice […]
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Obama speaks with forked tongue on surveillance
It’s bad enough the federal government spies on us. Must it insult our intelligence too? The government’s response to Edward Snowden’s leaks about the National Security Agency’s secret monitoring of […]
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Republican reconsideration of immigration
“Those are my principles. If you don’t like them I have others.” — Groucho Marx Apparently Groucho has been elected chairman of the Republican National Committee. Mitt Romney’s loss to […]
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The only way to get money out of politics
The recent Supreme Court ruling striking down the ban on corporate and union spending at election time is both blessing and curse. On the one hand, removing a legal barrier […]
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Strange health care bedfellows
One thing can be said in behalf of the health-insurance overhaul currently shaping up in Washington: it has revealed the curious bedfellows that politics creates. Congress almost certainly will pass […]