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TODAY'S CONSERVATIVE, REPUBLICAN, POLITICAL OPINION

TODAY'S CONSERVATIVE, REPUBLICAN, POLITICAL OPINION

Fri Dec 25, 2009
By Hugh Hewitt
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Michelle Malkin : Nanny State Gone Wild: Defining Dependency Up
Mona Charen : National Organization for Irresponsible Women
Suzanne Fields : Feats of Clay, Exposed
David R. Stokes : Christmas Coming In From the Cold
Oliver North : Christmas Present
Rich Tucker : Blind to Bias
Linda Chavez : Recommended Reading
Ken Connor : The Wonder of the Incarnation
Salena Zito : Almost Home
Charles Krauthammer : 2009: The Year of Living Fecklessly
Pat Buchanan : Of Christmas, War and Peace
George Will : Rome's Call: "Come on Over"
Michael Reagan : Passage By Pork Rather Than Good Public Policy
Debra J. Saunders : The Year of Living in Everybody's Face
Hans A. von Spakovsky : A Christmas Tale - 1944
Ross Mackenzie : Christmas Reflections: Amid the Wreckage, the Message From the Manger Echoes Still
Michael Barone : When Legerdemain Is Used to Pass an Unpopular Bill
Emmett Tyrrell : War Is Hell, Not Litigation
Patrick Basham : In Defense of Santa
Brent Bozell : Deconstructing Christmas
Today's Editorial and Political Cartoons and Funnies
* Brian Farrington - Thursday, December 24, 2009
* Steve Kelley - Thursday, December 24, 2009
* Glenn McCoy - Thursday, December 24, 2009
* Larry Wright - Thursday, December 24, 2009
* Michael Ramirez - Thursday, December 24, 2009
* Chip Bok - Thursday, December 24, 2009
* Dana Summers - Thursday, December 24, 2009
* Nate Beeler - Wednesday, December 23, 2009
* Gary Varvel - Wednesday, December 23, 2009

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12/25/2009 Vick remains sporting world's Rorschach test
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12/25/2009 Christmas Coming In From the Cold
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12/24/2009 In Defense of Santa
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12/24/2009 A Christmas Tale - 1944
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12/22/2009 Obama's Forgotten Health Care Promises
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12/22/2009 The Department of Injustice
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12/22/2009 Failing Public Schools Cost Us All
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12/21/2009 The War on Christmas: It's a Commie Thing
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12/21/2009 A Strategy for Freedom
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12/21/2009 West Virginia Story is Important to EFCA Debate
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12/21/2009 Bribing and Blackmailing for Historic Change
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12/21/2009 King of the Blacks
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12/21/2009 Banking on Job Growth
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12/21/2009 Time for a Separation of Science and State
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12/21/2009 America's Survival Is At Stake
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12/19/2009 Life in a box
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12/18/2009 Reading This Column While Driving is Dangerous
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12/18/2009 High Court Rejects Challenge to NRA’s Signature Law
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12/18/2009 Gifts Under The Tree: There's something for nearly everyone this gift-giving season.
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12/18/2009 Class Warfare: Government vs. Everybody Else
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12/17/2009 Schwarzenegger's Costly War on Climate Change
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12/17/2009 Insanity, Defined
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12/17/2009 ObamaCare’s HSA Promise – and Peril
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12/15/2009 How to Defend an Indefensible “Safe Schools Czar”
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12/15/2009 Obama's Great Temptation
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12/15/2009 David Brooks, Economics & Liberal Conservatism at the New York Times
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12/14/2009 Scientific Fascism at Copenhagen
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12/14/2009 O' Unity Tree, O' Unity Tree
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12/14/2009 Economic Relay Race
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12/14/2009 Congress Needs a Little Fiscal Discipline
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12/14/2009 Have Yourself a Very Jihad Christmas
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12/12/2009 Al Gore and the Wizards of Climategate
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12/11/2009 Media Blows Climate Change Story
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12/11/2009 Your Basic Right to Travel is at Stake
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12/11/2009 Time for an Immigration Moratorium
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12/10/2009 Republican Policy Committee: Helping the People Stay Wide Awake
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12/10/2009 The Speech Obama Should Give in Oslo
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12/9/2009 The Privatization of the First Amendment
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12/8/2009 Hold Your Breath Texas
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12/8/2009 The Real History of Civil Rights
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12/8/2009 The Tiger in You
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12/7/2009 The Administration’s Phantom Immigration Enforcement Policy
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12/7/2009 The Quiet Family Killer: Pornography and Marriage
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12/3/2009 KSM In N.Y.C. Is Bad for America
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12/2/2009 Real Common Ground: Keep Abortion Out of Health Care
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11/26/2009 Thanksgiving Revisited
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11/25/2009 Time for an Alternative to PelosiCare
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11/25/2009 Is Marriage a Good Thing?
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11/24/2009 Blunderer in Chief
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11/23/2009 We Have Been Betrayed
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11/23/2009 The SEIU Thugocracy
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11/20/2009 Who's Legislating Morality Now?
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11/20/2009 Palin-Hating 101
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11/20/2009 Reverse the Vote, Save Our Country
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11/19/2009 Huey Long, ACORN & Obama: Share The Wealth
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11/19/2009 Permanent Politicians and Tenured Professors
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11/18/2009 Battling Malaria in Uganda
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11/17/2009 A Get Out of Jail Free Card for Terrorists?
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11/17/2009 Galileo Silenced Again
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11/13/2009 ObamaCare Is Not Pro-Choice – for Anyone
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11/13/2009 Congress' Shoe Problem
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11/10/2009 Way to Go, Planned Parenthood
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11/9/2009 Obama Court Nominee Looks to Extend More "Empathy"
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11/9/2009 The Swine Flu Boogeyman
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11/7/2009 The Cost of Health Care Reform
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11/5/2009 Changing the Debate: From Energy to Jobs and Economic Strength
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11/3/2009 Exclusive: Glenn Beck Talks To Townhall Magazine
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11/3/2009 How Will Obamacare Affect the Average American?
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11/2/2009 Harry Reid & Your Health Care
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11/2/2009 Is the Republican Label Irrelevant?
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10/31/2009 Republicans Are Offering Better Solutions to Lower Health Care Costs
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10/31/2009 Taxing the Middle Class with Soda Taxes
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10/29/2009 Obamacare: Startling New Revelations Scare Public
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10/29/2009 Government Takeovers: Is Charity Next?
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10/28/2009 Mainstream Media Ignores Juicy ACORN Nuggets
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10/28/2009 A Personal Touch to President Bush
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10/26/2009 Next Generation of Conservative Leaders Line Up for Hoffman
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10/26/2009 The Road to Success in Afghanistan
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10/23/2009 Kill the Diagnosis, Not the Patient
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10/21/2009 Cuba-Style Indoctrination in Store for U.S.?
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10/19/2009 Illegals Are Not “Dying in the Street”
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10/16/2009 Living in Fear
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10/16/2009 Deafening Silence on Real Climate Change
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10/16/2009 Capitalism: Still Popular, Despite the Bad PR
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10/12/2009 Help Obama? No, Help America
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10/9/2009 Life and Death Medical Challenges in Maui
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10/8/2009 What France Is Debating While America Tackles Health Care
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10/5/2009 “Cap” Industrial Competitiveness and “Trade” Domestic Manufacturing Jobs Abroad
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10/5/2009 Voters Seeing Red Over ACLU Attack
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9/30/2009 Brazil Threatens Americans' Free Speech
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9/28/2009 A NeW Direction for Female Happiness
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9/25/2009 An Executive Privilege
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9/25/2009 Obama’s Retreats Send the Wrong Message to Iran
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9/24/2009 Senate Finance Committee: Skating on Potomac River Ice in Middle of a "Snowe" Storm
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9/22/2009 The Best Health Reform May Be to Kill Cap-and-Trade
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9/19/2009 Baby 'Bigots'
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9/18/2009 Are the News Media Scared of ACORN
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9/17/2009 Obama: Don't Reward French Cheating With Taxpayer Money
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9/16/2009 Joe Wilson's Victory on Illegal Immigration
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9/16/2009 TH Mag Exclusive: Back-to-School Patriotism
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9/14/2009 The Current Recession versus the Great Depression
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9/14/2009 Not So Peachy Advice
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9/10/2009 ACORN Exposed: Stealing Democracy
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9/10/2009 Goshen Grievances
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9/9/2009 At the Danger Point in the Obamacare Debate
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9/9/2009 Obama's Unwise Education Investment
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9/8/2009 Republicans Get Rolled...And Deservedly So
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9/7/2009 Labor Day - I'm Not Celebrating
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9/3/2009 National Health Control is Neither Moral Nor Ethical
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8/31/2009 Who Really Speaks for Consumers in the Arbitration Debate?
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8/31/2009 A Cash for Clunkers Program for the Air Force
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8/28/2009 Health Care Reform Could Tax Veterans
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8/28/2009 Where Have All the Ladies Gone?
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8/28/2009 Liberty and Gunpowder
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8/28/2009 Just War Theory and Enhanced Interrogation: How Christians Can Think about the Unthinkable
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8/28/2009 Academia's Red Light District
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8/27/2009 Laus Deo
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8/21/2009 What Women Want?
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8/19/2009 Petition: Pelosi’s Drought, Breadbasket Goes Hungry
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8/18/2009 The Prince of Darkness as a Beacon of Dissent
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8/17/2009 Three-Headed Bully: Three-Judge Panel Mandates Release of Thousands of Calif. Criminals
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8/17/2009 Supreme Sonia: Fear What She Will Do Outside of the Court, Not Inside
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8/17/2009 The One Lesson Democrats Never Learn
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8/15/2009 Contemplating Joe McCarthy, Socialized Medicine, Brothels & Whiskey
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8/14/2009 Obama’s Money Mantra Hurts National Defense
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8/8/2009 Cash for Clunkers
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8/5/2009 Forget August, Pelosi And Company should be worried about September.
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8/3/2009 The Triumph of Hope over Experience
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8/3/2009 Medicare Advantage cuts: Not the change we need
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7/28/2009 Two Shocking Silver Charts
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7/27/2009 Lessons in Democracy from Walt Disney
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7/24/2009 President Obama: Hypocrite or Just a Flip-Flopper?
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7/23/2009 It's Time to De-Fund Planned Parenthood
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7/22/2009 No Surprise: More Spending Doesn't Mean Better Care
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7/22/2009 GOP Leaders to Counter Obama Tonight
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7/17/2009 July Most Ridiculous Lawsuit Poll: The “How Dare You Have the Same Name as I” Edition
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7/16/2009 A Real Choice on Climate Change: Do Nothing
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7/14/2009 Far From United
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7/14/2009 California Crack-Up
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7/14/2009 Obama Blocks New Energy Exploration
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7/13/2009 Grist for the Grill: To Question Sotomayor
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7/10/2009 Democrats' Health Care "Reform": The Next Job Killer
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7/9/2009 Obama's Irrelevant War Rhetoric
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7/1/2009 The Death of Dialogue?
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6/29/2009 Waxman-Markey Is Hilarious, but the Joke Is on Us
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6/26/2009 The World Will Know - The Stoning of Soraya M.
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6/24/2009 NRA Members Must Oppose Sotomayor
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6/24/2009 Yes Sir, Senator Boxer
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6/13/2009 The Era of Bipartisan Support for Israel is Over
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6/9/2009 Judge Sotomayor and the Second Amendment
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6/6/2009 Clear Skies Over Normandy
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6/5/2009 Dear Mr. President, What Does ‘Health Reform’ Mean?
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6/3/2009 Missing the Point on the Hate Crimes Bill
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6/1/2009 Now is a Once-in-a-Lifetime Opportunity for Income Investors
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6/1/2009 Can Andrew Breitbart Save Hollywood?
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5/28/2009 Get Ready to Buy
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5/26/2009 Sotomayor Doesn't Live Up to Obama's Word
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5/25/2009 A Closer Look at Climate Change
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5/18/2009 Tar Heel Boys
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5/14/2009 Obama Doomed to Repeat Failures of Past
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5/12/2009 Proportionality Comes to High Schools
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5/7/2009 Immigration: Stretching Statistics
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5/4/2009 The Threat at Home
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5/4/2009 Why “Daffy Duck” Is Obama’s Obvious Choice To Replace Justice Souter
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4/29/2009 In Education, 100 Days of Rhetoric and Not a Minute of Real Reform
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4/29/2009 Those Republican Apostates
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4/27/2009 In Time of Victory, Why is the Left So Angry?
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4/27/2009 Charity and Obama's "Progressive" Ideas
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4/26/2009 Today Is Debt Day
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4/23/2009 Setting a Startling New Course for America
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4/23/2009 Oblivion for Firearm Freedom?
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4/16/2009 Special Report: Global Warming Gloom and Doom Cools Off
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4/16/2009 Can the GOP Take Congress Back in 2010?
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4/16/2009 An Age-Old False Choice on Energy
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4/15/2009 Keep the Embargo, O
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4/13/2009 Savoring the Original Boston Tea Party
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4/13/2009 The Newest Needless "Car"
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4/9/2009 Three Ways to Protect Yourself From the Coming Chaos
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4/7/2009 Obama Should Stand By Our Military
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4/7/2009 The Canadian System Failed Natasha Richardson
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4/7/2009 Promises Made, Promises Broken: The Tale of the 2010 Budget
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4/2/2009 Is All "Fair" With the Obama Agenda?
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4/1/2009 Good News From Washington, D.C.
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3/30/2009 Conscientious Objections
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3/26/2009 Johnsen's Radical Views Will Alienate Pro-Life Americans
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3/18/2009 Lesson from AIG: Time to Stop the Bailout Stampede
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3/13/2009 How to buy gold now with a proven track record
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3/11/2009 The World Wildlife Fund's Polar Bear Lies
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3/6/2009 The Power of Sixty
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2/27/2009 Keeping the Promise of a Quality Education for Every American Student
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2/26/2009 Maybe We Are in Oz
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2/23/2009 Medicaid for Millionaires
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2/23/2009 Obama's Schadenfreude
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2/12/2009 Nothing to Fear but Fear Itself?
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2/11/2009 Stimulating Obama's Long-Term "Green" Agenda
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2/10/2009 Strategy and Tactics
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2/9/2009 Why I Vote "No" On the Stimulus
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2/4/2009 Globalization: the Synchronization of Failure?
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2/3/2009 Daschle's Hypocrisy
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1/28/2009 Sorry for the Fringe on Top?
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1/26/2009 Team of Idols
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1/17/2009 Why Norm Coleman Will Win
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1/12/2009 Driving on the Wrong Side of the Road
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1/12/2009 Transcript: George W. Bush's Final Press Conference
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