For late-19th-century anarchists, terrorism was the "propaganda of the deed." And the most successful propaganda-by-deed in history was 9/11 - not just the most destructive, but the most spectacular and telegenic.
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Sure, Election Day 2009 will scare moderate Democrats and make passage of Obamacare more difficult. Sure, it makes it easier for resurgent Republicans to raise money and recruit candidates for 2010. But the most important effect of Tuesday's elections is historical. It demolishes the grea…
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Rahm Emanuel once sent a dead fish to a live pollster.
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About the only thing more comical than Barack Obama's Nobel Peace Prize was the reaction of those who deemed the award "premature," as if the brilliance of Obama's foreign policy is so self-evident and its success so assured that if only the Norway Five had waited a few years, his Nobel w…
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The genius of democracy is the rotation of power, which forces the opposition to be serious - particularly about things like war, about which until Jan. 20 of this year Democrats were decidedly unserious.
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"President Obama, I support the Americans' outstretched hand. But what did the international community gain from these offers of dialogue? Nothing."
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WASHINGTON - You lie? No. Barack Obama doesn't lie. He's too subtle for that. He ... well, you judge.
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WASHINGTON - So Van Jones, the defenestrated White House green-jobs czar, once called Republicans "a-holes." Big deal. I've said worse about Democrats. I've said worse about Republicans. I've said worse about members of my family (you know who you are).
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WASHINGTON - Let's see if we can have a reasoned discussion about end-of-life counseling.
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WASHINGTON - In the 48 hours of June 15-16, President Barack Obama lost the health-care debate. First, a letter from the Congressional Budget Office to U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy reported that his health committee's reform bill would add
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WASHINGTON - Yesterday, Barack Obama was God. Today, he's fallen from grace, the magic gone, his health-care reform dead. If you believed the first idiocy - and half the mainstream media did - you'll believe the second. Don't believe either.
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WASHINGTON - What happened to Obamacare? Rhetoric met reality. As both candidate and president, the master rhetorician could conjure a world in which he bestows upon you health-care nirvana: more coverage, less cost.
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WASHINGTON - Michael Crichton once wrote that if you had told a physicist in 1899 that within a hundred years humankind would, among other wonders (nukes, commercial airlines), "travel to the moon, and then lose interest ... the physicist would almost certainly pronounce you mad." In 2000…
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WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court's ruling on the Ricci case - that white firemen suffered illegal discrimination when a promotional test on which they did well was thrown out because not enough blacks did well - will have no effect on Sonia Sotomayor's nomination to the Supreme Court.
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WASHINGTON - Millions of Iranians take to the streets to defy a theocratic dictatorship that, among its other finer qualities, is a self-declared enemy of America and the tolerance and liberties it represents. The demonstrators are fighting on their own, but they await just a word that Am…
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When President Obama returned from his first European trip, I observed that while over there he had been “acting the philosopher-king who hovers above the fray mediating” between America and the world. Now that Obama has returned from his “Muslim world” pilgrimage, even the left a…
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WASHINGTON — Sonia Sotomayor has a classic American story. So does Frank Ricci.
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“We were able to hold it off with George Bush. The idea that we might find ourselves fighting with the Obama administration over these powers is really stunning.”
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Earlier this month, I wrote a column outlining two exceptions to the no-torture rule: the ticking time bomb scenario and its less extreme variant in which a high-value terrorist refuses to divulge crucial information that could save innocent lives. The column elicited protest and oppositi…
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Charles Krauthammer is a medical doctor who earned a distinguished reputation in psychiatry before embarking on a political career in the Carter administration. His journalistic career began in 1981 at the New Republic. His commentary for the Washington Post won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize. Now he is syndicated in more than 200 newspapers and is a frequent on-air contributor for Fox News.
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