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Rich Lowry (Dec 31, 2007)
KNOXVILLE, Iowa -- John Edwards is angry, and he wants people to know it. Republicans complain of Democratic class warfare all the time. It's usually an overwrought charge.... more
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Rich Lowry (Dec 27, 2007)
The roll call of U.S. allies in the Middle East and its neighborhood has always read like a target list: Maliki, Karzai, Sistani, Musharraf. One bullet or one suicide blast... more
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Rich Lowry (Dec 24, 2007)
It is the curse of Clintonism that it is associated with the Clintons.
A centrist-oriented Democratic politics that is pragmatic and economically literate is better than... more
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Rich Lowry (Dec 20, 2007)
If getting a real Christmas tree seems too much trouble, consider the case of Frederick Dominguez and his three kids. After church on Sunday, they headed into the Northern... more
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Rich Lowry (Dec 17, 2007)
The National Intelligence Estimate arguing that Iran gave up its nuclear-weapons program back in 2003 went public two weeks ago, instantly lessening the urgency of the... more
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Rich Lowry (Dec 13, 2007)
The ghost of Howard Dean haunts the pundit class. As soon as a candidate of either party spikes up in the polls, he is compared with Dean, who had a spectacular boomlet... more
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Rich Lowry (Dec 11, 2007)
Barack Obama found the perfect
booster in Oprah Winfrey. Not only
can she fill a football stadium with
30,000 adoring people and put a
hammerlock on a news cycle,... more
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Rich Lowry (Dec 06, 2007)
Mitt Romney has run a textbook presidential campaign, and, at the same time -- given his overwhelming resources, organization and TV advertising -- he has underperformed.... more
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Rich Lowry (Dec 03, 2007)
Mike Huckabee is not running a substance-free campaign based on biography and applause lines. No, the former Arkansas governor has the distinction of advocating the... more
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Rich Lowry (Nov 29, 2007)
We haven't lacked recently for congressmen who have disgraced Congress. Now, we've lost one who ennobled it.
Henry Hyde has died at age 83. He represented a suburban... more
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Rich Lowry (Nov 26, 2007)
The "sideshow" has become the main event. For years, we've been told that only stem-cell research that destroys human embryos is worth pursuing. Everything else is a... more
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Rich Lowry (Nov 22, 2007)
MEDELLIN, Colombia-- In what was once the most dangerous neighborhood of this, the world's most notorious city, a Sunday afternoon is a bustling, joyful affair. The... more
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Rich Lowry (Nov 15, 2007)
In the early 1990s, few right-wing bugaboos loomed as large as Hillary Clinton's secret health-care task force. Conservatives who still routinely invoke the task force can... more
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Rich Lowry (Nov 12, 2007)
Forget the briefings from generals, the intelligence evaluations and the Pentagon status reports. There is a handy indicator for whether the war in Iraq is going well -- its... more
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Rich Lowry (Nov 08, 2007)
Rudy Giuliani's downfall in the Republican primary fight has been much predicted, but little in evidence. He just got the endorsement of the Christian conservative leader Pat... more
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Rich Lowry (Nov 05, 2007)
The sound you hear in Pakistan is a couple of pillars of Bush administration foreign policy crumbling away.
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf -- the army chief... more
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Rich Lowry (Nov 01, 2007)
Would someone be fit to be attorney general of the United States if he had once said, "I think there are probably very few people in this room or in America who would say... more
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Rich Lowry (Oct 29, 2007)
When it comes to self-reflection, Barack Obama is an overachiever. At age 46, he has already written two memoirs when most people in public life -- sometime at the end of... more
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Rich Lowry (Oct 25, 2007)
When disaster strikes, there's no substitute for effective government.
Whipped up by 100 mph gusts of the Santa Ana winds and burning so hot that firefighters at... more
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Rich Lowry (Oct 22, 2007)
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee told a gathering of social conservatives in Washington last weekend, in a boffo speech that received repeated standing ovations, that... more
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Rich Lowry (Oct 18, 2007)
Democrats are altogether too modest in the claims they make for the SCHIP children's health-insurance program. They talk only about what it does to cover needy families with... more
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Rich Lowry (Oct 15, 2007)
The Ottoman Empire died an ignominious death 85 years ago in the aftermath of World War I. Democrats are nonetheless intent on rebuking it for the mass killing of... more
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Rich Lowry (Oct 11, 2007)
Is this it? That's the question that hangs over the Republican presidential field, and the answer is, "Yes, this is it -- no shining conservative on a white horse, no new... more
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Rich Lowry (Oct 08, 2007)
BAGHDAD -- A war has probably never been so debated and so little understood as the one in Iraq. "The domestic political debate has nothing to do with what we're doing... more
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Rich Lowry (Oct 04, 2007)
BAGHDAD -- "What do you do when Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson offer to put down their arms?"
That's the rhetorical question posed by an officer of the 2nd... more
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Rich Lowry (Oct 01, 2007)
If only Clarence Thomas weren't a black conservative, his new memoir, "My Grandfather's Son," would be hailed as a kind of classic, a powerful, moving tale of a black... more
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Rich Lowry (Sep 27, 2007)
When Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice opened a White House conference on global warming by saying, "We must cut the Gordian knot of fossil fuels," it's a wonder she could... more
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Rich Lowry (Sep 24, 2007)
When five American soldiers were killed at an Iraqi government building in Karbala in January, Democratic Sens. Chris Dodd and John Kerry erupted in outrage. They both knew... more
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Rich Lowry (Sep 20, 2007)
Global capitalism has long lacked for a ringing slogan like "workers of the world unite." It's never too late to find one, and a good candidate -- with apologies to the... more
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Rich Lowry (Sep 17, 2007)
When it comes to health care, Hillary Clinton is never going to let her name be associated with the words "radical overhaul" ever again. Or, if she can help it, with massive... more
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Rich Lowry (Sep 13, 2007)
Welcome to Washington, Gen. Petraeus. You had better get used to being called a liar.
Even before Gen. David Petraeus testified before Congress, Democrats launched... more
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Rich Lowry (Sep 04, 2007)
There is an easy way for a Republican senator to burst from semiobscurity to the front pages -- offer a compromise plan on Iraq.
Sens. John Warner (Virginia), Dick Lugar... more
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Rich Lowry (Aug 27, 2007)
Alberto Gonzales became intimately familiar with what departing White House adviser Karl Rove calls "the mob" -- the howling mass of Democratic members of Congress, bloggers... more
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Rich Lowry (Aug 23, 2007)
The new report from the CIA's inspector general about the spy agency's pre-9/11 failings could be titled, "What We Did During Our Holiday From History." The stretch between... more
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Rich Lowry (Aug 21, 2007)
Francois de La Rochefoucauld had a point when he said, in his frequently quoted formulation, that hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue. In the case of John... more
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Rich Lowry (Aug 16, 2007)
In September 1898, an outnumbered British-led army battled the forces of a Muslim fanatic in Omdurman, Sudan. The Brits unleashed machine-gun fire and artillery on the... more
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Rich Lowry (Aug 14, 2007)
Karl Rove loomed so large in our politics that no one could see him clearly. He was both underestimated and overestimated, and he leaves the White House with both significant... more
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Rich Lowry (Aug 02, 2007)
From a distance of nearly 50 years, the liberalism of 1960 is hardly recognizable. It was comfortable with the use of American power abroad, unabashedly patriotic and... more
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Rich Lowry (Jul 30, 2007)
A majority is a terrible thing to waste. That's not stopping congressional Democrats.
When not trying to force a pullout from Iraq, their main effort has been chasing... more
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Rich Lowry (Jul 26, 2007)
Hillary Clinton has led in almost every national poll among the Democratic presidential candidates, usually by double digits. She has turned in a solid, self-assured... more
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Rich Lowry (Jul 23, 2007)
If you see something, hire a lawyer. Then, perhaps, you can say something.
That would be the new mantra for passenger vigilance -- replacing the ubiquitous "If you see... more
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Rich Lowry (Jul 19, 2007)
For President Bush, one controversial act of clemency shouldn't be enough. Justice demands that he follow up his commutation for former Dick Cheney chief of staff I. Lewis... more
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Rich Lowry (Jul 16, 2007)
WASHINGTON -- This is the center of the storm in the debate over the Iraq War, George W. Bush's White House. The president is meeting in the Roosevelt Room with nine... more
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Rich Lowry (Jul 12, 2007)
Michael Moore set out to make a movie attacking the American insurance industry and ended up attacking the American character. By the end of his movie "SiCKO," his plaint is... more
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Rich Lowry (Jul 09, 2007)
"America good! Al-Qaida bad!" -- A trader in the Qatana bazaar, Ramadi, Iraq
This is a sentiment that the Iraqi trader felt safe to utter as a visiting U.S. general passed... more
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Rich Lowry (Jul 05, 2007)
Practically everything else in American life has been dumbed down, so why not constitutional crises? The braying over President Bush's commutation of Vice President Dick... more
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Rich Lowry (Jul 02, 2007)
For decades, the bald eagle's most favorable habitat seemed to be The Presidential Seal. Devastated by human encroachment and then the pesticide DDT, the bird itself was on a... more
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Rich Lowry (Jun 29, 2007)
Beware of an aroused citizenry. It's an admonition that should be ingrained in the brain of any run-of-the-mill politician, let alone someone who has ascended to the United... more
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Rich Lowry (Jun 25, 2007)
Rush Limbaugh, the conservative talk-radio pioneer, has been called many nasty things before, but never a "structural imbalance." That's the fancy term a liberal think tank... more
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Rich Lowry (Jun 21, 2007)
The conceit of New York is, as the song goes, that if you can make it there, you can make it anywhere. If he goes through with an independent presidential run, Mayor Michael... more
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Rich Lowry (Jun 18, 2007)
In the 16th and 17th centuries, the West was convulsed by religious wars that, in the words of historian Paul Johnson, "were without redeeming features and were destructive... more
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Rich Lowry (Jun 18, 2007)
Journalists spent months explaining how Sen. John McCain's stalwart support of the Iraq War would sink him in the Republican presidential primaries -- and it didn't. Then,... more
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Rich Lowry (Jun 11, 2007)
In five years, we built the Hoover Dam. From 1931 to 1936, the Colorado River was diverted with tunnels blasted into the Black Canyon walls, a town was built to house a... more
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Rich Lowry (Jun 07, 2007)
Before the bombing of the USS Cole in 2000, al-Qaida targeted another U.S. destroyer. It wanted to hit the USS The Sullivans. But as recounted in Lawrence Wright's Pulitzer... more
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Rich Lowry (Jun 04, 2007)
Supporters of a lax immigration policy love to hurl the charge of "Know-Nothingism" against their critics. But, oddly enough, it is the Senate immigration bill that... more
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Rich Lowry (May 31, 2007)
Hillary Clinton has identified a grievous flaw in the contemporary American economy: It leaves "it all up to the individual." This hateful individualism is allegedly driving... more
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Rich Lowry (May 29, 2007)
Americans have arrived at an answer to high gas prices and concerns about global warming -- buy more cars. According to a report in The New York Times, households with a... more
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Rich Lowry (May 24, 2007)
America as we know it might not exist without the battles of Saratoga and Yorktown, without Gettysburg and Antietam. The world the United States shaped so decisively in the... more
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Rich Lowry (May 21, 2007)
Is all that ails the U.S. health-care system that it's not run by a communist dictatorship? That has long been a premise of apologists for Fidel Castro who extol the virtues... more
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Rich Lowry (May 18, 2007)
The U.S. has now constructed .286 percent of the 700 miles of fencing on the southern border provided for in 2006's Secure Fence Act. That is sufficient for a bipartisan... more
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Rich Lowry (May 14, 2007)
For once, the media aren't so thrilled by a "first." Usually being the first African-American, woman, Latino or anything else to run for a major office gives a campaign a... more
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Rich Lowry (May 11, 2007)
It is the strange fate of retiring British Prime Minister Tony Blair to be called a lackey for adhering to his own deep-felt foreign-policy vision.
Long before President... more
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Rich Lowry (May 09, 2007)
The front-runners in the Democratic presidential race have discovered the power of an idea whose time has passed: socialism in women's wages. Its power is in pandering to... more
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Rich Lowry (May 08, 2007)
Rudy Giuliani is supposed to be the candidate of authenticity, the tough-talking former New York City mayor who sticks to his beliefs no matter what. But he is repeating a... more
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Rich Lowry (May 08, 2007)
Rudy Giuliani is supposed to be the candidate of authenticity, the tough-talking former New York City mayor who sticks to his beliefs no matter what. But he is repeating a... more
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Rich Lowry (May 03, 2007)
Time, time, and more time. That’s what a senior Army officer in Iraq (speaking on background) pleaded for in a recent meeting with supporters of the war in Washington in the... more
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Rich Lowry (Apr 30, 2007)
George Tenet is a man of passion. One of the things he is most passionate about is never seeing unflattering portrayals of himself in the press. Hence he managed to be the... more
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Rich Lowry (Apr 26, 2007)
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid had a bright, shining moment of honesty when he said that the war in Iraq is lost.
He unburdened himself of what he and many of his... more
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Rich Lowry (Apr 24, 2007)
France has often, for better or worse, led the way during its history: in state-building, when Louis XIV created the modern French monarchy; in proto-totalitarian politics,... more
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Rich Lowry (Apr 20, 2007)
In early 21st-century America, what do you do when you encounter a severely mentally ill person?
Anyone who lives in the city knows the answer to that question — you step... more
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Rich Lowry (Apr 16, 2007)
In "A Beautiful Mind," her bestselling biography of mathematician John Nash, Sylvia Nasar describes the process whereby he went mad. He spun coincidences and unrelated... more
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Rich Lowry (Apr 13, 2007)
Don Imus has to wonder where all his friends went. Just yesterday, his radio/TV show was the favorite venue of the journalistic and political elite, who delighted -- or... more
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Rich Lowry (Apr 09, 2007)
Not all incremental progress is equal in the eyes of President Bush. When it occurs in Iraq, it is a sign that we need to forge ahead despite all difficulties. When it occurs... more
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Rich Lowry (Apr 05, 2007)
It is growing in strength and boldness. It is not a political party or a cohesive movement. But it is on the verge of becoming the most significant force in the West, one... more
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Rich Lowry (Apr 02, 2007)
Spinach might not seem to have anything to do with military operations. But there it is, in an emergency supplemental bill to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan: $25... more
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Rich Lowry (Mar 30, 2007)
Iran wants to quit the international community, but the international community won't let it. No act of warfare against the civilized world, no defiance of the United... more
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Rich Lowry (Mar 27, 2007)
For now, the Federal Election Commission doesn’t have YouTube entirely in its officious grasp, and that’s a wonderful thing. It helps make the video-sharing website a... more
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Rich Lowry (Mar 23, 2007)
Maybe the next Al Gore film should be called "How to Profit From the Coming Global Meltdown." The former vice president told Congress during his star-turn there that, in the... more
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Rich Lowry (Mar 20, 2007)
When President Bush announced a surge of troops into Baghdad in January, Democrats pounded him for the folly of putting U.S. troops in the "middle of a civil war." Two months... more
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Rich Lowry (Mar 16, 2007)
"What do I need to do? What can we do to end this?” That was Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’s plaint a couple of weeks ago as the controversy about the U.S. attorney... more
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Rich Lowry (Mar 13, 2007)
Rudy Giuliani has made a strategic choice in the Republican primary contest. He will stay pro-choice on the issue of abortion, and thus avoid the flip-flopper label that has... more
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Rich Lowry (Mar 13, 2007)
The verdict is in: Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, Lewis "Scooter" Libby, should be pardoned. At least according to two of the jurors who found him guilty... more
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Rich Lowry (Mar 06, 2007)
Rudy Giuliani might have been an inspiration in the days after 9/11, but what relevance does that have now? He might have cleaned up New York City, but why should most... more
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Rich Lowry (Mar 02, 2007)
Behold, the self-styled friends of American labor. They are now trying to relieve the American worker of what they consider the unreasonable burden of the secret ballot,... more
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Rich Lowry (Feb 27, 2007)
While Al Gore was winning an Oscar for his film "An Inconvenient Truth," the people he once inhabited the White House with were showing the power of the convenient... more
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Rich Lowry (Feb 23, 2007)
How does a society vanquish a social ill that is deeply ingrained, that benefits the economy and that directly harms only the utterly powerless?
That is the question... more
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Rich Lowry (Feb 20, 2007)
While other House Democrats were pretending that their nonbinding resolution against the Iraq troop surge was of great import, anti-war champion Rep. John Murtha spoke the... more
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Rich Lowry (Feb 16, 2007)
You know you're at a Barack Obama rally when there is a student in the front waving a "Liberals Are Sexy" sign.
A couple thousand people are packed in the University of... more
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Rich Lowry (Feb 13, 2007)
Back during the 2000 presidential campaign, George W. Bush and Dick Cheney promised that "help was on the way" for the U.S. military. It was supposedly overstretched by the... more
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Rich Lowry (Feb 09, 2007)
Sophisticated people in Western societies don't stand in public and shout, "The end is near!" the way a nutty preacher does. They don't cut their scalps the way Shia Muslims... more
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Rich Lowry (Feb 06, 2007)
At the Winter Meeting of the Democratic National Committee, in a ballroom of the Washington Hilton packed with hundreds of Democratic activists, Rep. Rahm Emanuel seems a... more
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Rich Lowry (Feb 02, 2007)
High executive pay hasn't quite reached that status of a bipartisan "crisis," but it's approaching it. The Democratic senator from Virginia, Jim Webb, fulminated against it... more
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Rich Lowry (Jan 30, 2007)
The perjury trial of Vice President Dick Cheney’s former chief of staff Lewis “Scooter” Libby is not exactly Jarndyce and Jarndyce, the case in the Charles Dickens novel... more
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Rich Lowry (Jan 30, 2007)
When Hillary Clinton announced her presidential exploratory committee while sitting on a couch in her living room, she didn't project warmth so much as a sense that she was... more
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Rich Lowry (Jan 26, 2007)
A funny thing happened to convention-defying political courage, at least in the case of Sen. John McCain. It used to be that McCain's willingness to boldly follow his... more
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Rich Lowry (Jan 23, 2007)
When Hillary Clinton announced her presidential exploratory committee while sitting on a couch in her living room, she didn't project warmth so much as a sense that she was... more
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Rich Lowry (Jan 19, 2007)
If a weak, sectarian-tinged government is struggling to maintain itself in the midst of an intensifying insurgency, Democrats are eager to help. So long as that government is... more
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Rich Lowry (Jan 19, 2007)
If a weak, sectarian-tinged government is struggling to maintain itself in the midst of an intensifying insurgency, Democrats are eager to help. So long as that government is... more
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Rich Lowry (Jan 19, 2007)
If a weak, sectarian-tinged government is struggling to maintain itself in the midst of an intensifying insurgency, Democrats are eager to help. So long as that government is... more
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Rich Lowry (Jan 17, 2007)
Democrats hate that Republicans are willing, on the issue of embryonic stem-cell research, to let their straitened moral views supposedly stand in the way of medical... more
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Rich Lowry (Jan 11, 2007)
President Bush didn't talk about the yearning of the human heart for freedom in his latest Iraq speech. Such reductive anthropology used to be a staple of his pronouncements... more
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Rich Lowry (Jan 08, 2007)
The nation is on the verge of an honest debate on Iraq. On one side are those who believe that the Iraq War is unwinnable and we should begin pulling out our troops soon; on... more
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Rich Lowry (Jan 04, 2007)
The "do-nothing Congress" is dead. Long live the "do-nothing Congress." Such should be the proclamation upon the ascension of Democrats to control of Congress, with Nancy... more
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Rich Lowry (Jan 02, 2007)
As the nation mourns the late President Gerald Ford, the muses of history must be smiling. They have proven again that their wisdom eclipses that of contemporary... more