The Health-Care Backlash By Peter Wehner Posted: Tuesday, December 22, 2009
There is a growing backlash against the effort to radically change American health care. Barack Obama is inflicting enormous damage on his presidency and his party. And more will follow.
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What Is the Case for the Senate Bill? By Yuval Levin Posted: Wednesday, December 16, 2009
For liberals, the Senate health-care bill is not as good as the bill the Democrats originally proposed, and it is also worse than the status quo -- because it funnels huge amounts of money to the insurance companies they hate so much and doesn't really change the system.
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A Fighting Chance By Peter Wehner Posted: Wednesday, December 2, 2009
President Obama, in a forgettable speech, announced a wise decision on Afghanistan. We now have a fighting chance to win the war.
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An Ideologue Instead of a Statesman By Peter Wehner Posted: Thursday, November 12, 2009
President Obama is showing himself to be an ideologue instead of a statesman. And the ideology the president is peddling is doing great damage to his party, the instrument of his ambitions.
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Republican Civil War? By Peter Wehner Posted: Thursday, November 12, 2009
There is no broad-based effort to tear down the pillars of the modern GOP. The GOP remains a center-right party -- and any effort to make it otherwise would be silly and suicidal.
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Forgetting the Fall They tore down the wall; he tears up his invitation. By George Weigel Posted: Thursday, November 12, 2009
The president's absence bespeaks a woodenheadeness about the history of our times: a woodenheadness likely influenced by the classic left-liberal notion that the Cold War was just an action-reaction cycle between two "great powers", not a moral contest for the human future between imperfect democracies and pluperfect dictatorships.
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