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Charles Krauthammer is a syndicated columnist from the Washington Post.
Charles Krauthammer
Arrogance, Intolerance Filters Down From Dear Leader
May 23, 2013
"Horrible customer service." That's what the newly fired IRS commissioner averred was the agency's only sin in singling out conservative political groups for discriminatory treatment.
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Obama's White House Creates Credibility Crisis
May 17, 2013
Let the facts speak for themselves. They are damning enough. Let Gregory Hicks, the honorable, apolitical second-in-command that night in Libya, movingly and grippingly demolish the president's Benghazi mantra that "every piece of information that we got, as we got it, we laid it out for the American people."
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Obama's Wavering Red Line Over Syria
May 9, 2013
You know you're in trouble when you can't even get your walk-back story straight. Stung by the worldwide derision that met President Barack Obama's fudging and fumbling of his chemical-weapons red line in Syria, the White House leaked to The New York Times that Obama's initial statement had been unprepared, unscripted and therefore unserious.
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Obama Defeated On Gun Control, Sequester
May 2, 2013
Fate is fickle, power cyclical and nothing is new under the sun. Especially in Washington, where after every election the losing party is sagely instructed to confess sin, rend garments and rethink its principles lest it go the way of the Whigs. And where the victor is hailed as the new Caesar, facing an open road to domination.
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History Shows George W. Bush Kept Us Safe
April 25, 2013
Clare Boothe Luce liked to say that "a great man is one sentence." Presidents, in particular. The most common "one sentence" for George W. Bush (whose legacy is being reassessed as his presidential library opens) is: "He kept us safe."
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Finally, Israeli Settlements Off The Table
March 28, 2013
"I honestly believe that if any Israeli parent sat down with those [Palestinian] kids, they'd say I want these kids to succeed."
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Limiting Deductions Cornerstone Of Great Deal
March 22, 2013
The proposition that entitlement curbs are the key to maintaining national solvency is widely accepted, though not by many congressional Democrats. President Barack Obama, however, has endorsed it on various occasions. And he could make it happen.
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Rand Paul Is Right About Drones
March 14, 2013
Rand Paul's now legendary Senate filibuster was a stroke of political genius. The topic was, ostensibly, very narrow: Does the president have the constitutional authority to put a drone-launched Hellfire missile through your kitchen — you, a good citizen of Topeka to whom POTUS might have taken a dislike — while you're cooking up a pot roast?
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U.S. Foreign Aid Must Have Strings Attached
March 7, 2013
Sequestration is not the best time to be doling out foreign aid, surely the most unpopular item in the federal budget. Especially when the recipient is President Mohamed Morsi of Egypt.
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Sealing Border Key To Immigration Reform
February 21, 2013
The president suggested he would hold off introducing his own immigration bill as long as bipartisan Senate negotiations were proceeding apace — until his own immigration bill mysteriously leaked precisely as bipartisan Senate negotiations were proceeding apace.
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Republicans Finally Have Leverage To Cut Spending
February 7, 2013
For the first time since Election Day, President Barack Obama is on the defensive. That's because on March 1, automatic spending cuts ("sequestration") go into effect — $1.2 trillion over 10 years, half from domestic (discretionary) programs, half from defense.
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Unions Losing Power In Global Economy
December 13, 2012
For all the fury and fistfights outside the Lansing Capitol, what happened in Michigan this week was a simple accommodation to reality. The most famously unionized state, birthplace of the United Auto Workers, royalty of the American working class, became "right-to-work."
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GOP Must Never Bend To Obama Power Play
December 6, 2012
Let's understand President Obama's strategy in the "fiscal cliff" negotiations. It has nothing to do with economics or real fiscal reform. This is entirely about politics. It's Phase 2 of the 2012 campaign. The election returned him to office. The fiscal cliff negotiations are designed to break the Republican opposition and grant him political supremacy, something he thinks he earned with his landslide 2.8-point victory margin on Election Day.
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Republicans Must Be Willing To Risk Fiscal Cliff
November 29, 2012
Why are Republicans playing the Democrats' game that the "fiscal cliff" is all about taxation?
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Israel Defends Itself, Hamas Regroups
November 21, 2012
Why was there an Israel-Gaza war in the first place? Resistance to the occupation, say Hamas and many in the international media.
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Republicans Must Hew To Conservative Core
November 8, 2012
They lose and immediately the chorus begins. Republicans must change or die. A rump party of white America, it must adapt to evolving demographics or forever be the minority.
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Romney Played Passive Card In Third Debate
October 25, 2012
"L'etat, c'est moi."
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Romney Will Wins Monday's Debate On Libya Lies
October 19, 2012
Fight night at Hofstra. The two boxers, confined within a ring of spectators — circling, feinting, taunting, staring each other down — come several times, by my reckoning, no more than one provocation away from actual fisticuffs, of the kind that on occasion so delightfully break out in the Taiwanese parliament. Think of it: The Secret Service storming the ring, pinning Mitt Romney to the canvas as Candy Crowley administers the 10 count.
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Obama's Big Bird Counterattack Doesn't Fly
October 11, 2012
No mystery about the trajectory of this race. It was static for months as President Barack Obama held a marginal lead. Then came the conventions. The Republicans squandered Tampa; the Democrats got a 3- to 4-point bounce out of Charlotte.
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Romney Over Obama By Two Touchdowns
October 4, 2012
It was the biggest rout since Agincourt. If you insist, since the Carter-Reagan debate. With a remarkable display of confidence, knowledge and nerve, Mitt Romney won the first 2012 debate going away.
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Time For Romney To Go Big Or Go Home
September 27, 2012
In mid-September 2008, Lehman Brothers collapsed and the bottom fell out of the financial system. Barack Obama handled it coolly. John McCain did not. Obama won the presidency. (Given the country's condition, he would have won anyway. But this sealed it.)
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Obama's Middle East Policy In Tatters
September 20, 2012
In the week following 9/11/12 something big happened: the collapse of the Cairo Doctrine, the centerpiece of President Barack Obama's foreign policy. It was to reset the very course of post-9/11 America, creating, after the (allegedly) brutal depredations of the Bush years, a profound rapprochement with the Islamic world.
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Obama's Iran Inaction Casts Israel Adrift
September 13, 2012
There are two positions one can take regarding the Iranian nuclear program: (a) it doesn't matter, we can deter them; or (b) it does matter, we must stop them.
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Deterring Iran A Fantasy Foreign Policy
August 30, 2012
There are few foreign-policy positions more silly than the assertion without context that "deterrence works." It is like saying air power works. Well, it worked for Kosovo; it didn't work over North Vietnam.
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Preparing Strike On Iran May Avoid War
August 24, 2012
Either Israel is engaged in the most elaborate ruse since the Trojan Horse or it is on the cusp of a pre-emptive strike on Iran's nuclear facilities.
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Ryan Poised To Be GOP's Leader Of The Future
August 16, 2012
Vice presidential picks are always judged by their effect on the coming election. They rarely have any.
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Romney Should Be Running On Ideology
August 10, 2012
There are two ways to run against Barack Obama: stewardship or ideology. You can run against his record or you can run against his ideas.
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After Opening Gaffe, Romney Had A Great Trip
August 3, 2012
At the outset of his recent foreign trip, Mitt Romney committed a gaffe. In answer to a question about the Olympics, he expressed skepticism about London's preparations. The response confounded and agitated Romney supporters because it was such an unforced error. The question invited a simple paean to Olympic spirit and British grit, not the critical analysis of a former Olympic organizer.
