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Healthcare Status Quo is Not an Option

Right now, convincing the system that you've got a disability and dropping out of the workforce is a surer path to long-term health insurance than getting up and going to work every day. I have read all day about the democratic process in action in Massachusetts. I'm a little puzzled that one …

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Written by M. Scott on Friday January 22, 2010

Obama Must Learn from Clinton

If the Democrats are smart, they will take a page from Dick Morris’ winning formula for Clinton’s resurgence and pull Obama back to the center. As Yogi Berra would say, is this political déjà vu all over again?  If so, then despite their recent major setbacks, all is not lost for the …

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Written by Brad Schaeffer on Friday January 22, 2010

Obama Must Learn from Clinton

If the Democrats are smart, they will take a page from Dick Morris’ winning formula for Clinton’s resurgence and pull Obama back to the center. As Yogi Berra would say, is this political déjà vu all over again?  If so, then despite their recent major setbacks, all is not lost for the …

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Written by Brad Schaeffer on Friday January 22, 2010

GOP Should Take Lead in Championing Disability Rights

In the 2008 elections, both parties released disability policy statements but the issues that concern the disability community have never been fully addressed. Let the shameful wall of exclusion finally come tumbling down. –George H. W. Bush on the signing of the Americans with Disabilities …

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Written by Dana Commandatore on Friday January 22, 2010

GOP Should Take Lead in Championing Disability Rights

In the 2008 elections, both parties released disability policy statements but the issues that concern the disability community have never been fully addressed. Let the shameful wall of exclusion finally come tumbling down. –George H. W. Bush on the signing of the Americans with Disabilities …

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Written by Dana Commandatore on Friday January 22, 2010

Tax the Banks? Who’s Obama Kidding?

UPDATED: Yesterday, President Obama announced his plans for new restrictions on financial firms. The President is right to insist that taxpayers recoup their investment in the TARP program, but as I pointed out last week, the administration should reconsider the proposed bank tax. Yesterday, …

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Written by David Frum on Friday January 22, 2010

Tax the Banks? Who’s Obama Kidding?

UPDATED: Yesterday, President Obama announced his plans for new restrictions on financial firms. The President is right to insist that taxpayers recoup their investment in the TARP program, but as I pointed out last week, the administration should reconsider the proposed bank tax. Yesterday, …

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Written by David Frum on Friday January 22, 2010

U.S. Air Reaction to Praying Jew Understandable

Some rabbis have criticized a US Air crew for religious insensitivity when it diverted a plane and called in a bomb squad to investigate a Jewish teen who turned out to be... praying . However, the reaction of the staff was very much understandable. Some rabbis have criticized a US Air crew for …

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Written by Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld on Friday January 22, 2010

U.S. Air Reaction to Praying Jew Understandable

Some rabbis have criticized a US Air crew for religious insensitivity when it diverted a plane and called in a bomb squad to investigate a Jewish teen who turned out to be... praying . However, the reaction of the staff was very much understandable. Some rabbis have criticized a US Air crew for …

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Written by Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld on Friday January 22, 2010

SCOTUS: No Means No

The Supreme Court must be wondering: When will you blockheads get the message? Limits on political giving are OK. Limits on political spending are not. The Supreme Court has again and again struck speech restrictions to the ground, only to be confronted with ever new attempts to control speech. …

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Written by David Frum on Thursday January 21, 2010

SCOTUS: No Means No

The Supreme Court must be wondering: When will you blockheads get the message? Limits on political giving are OK. Limits on political spending are not. The Supreme Court has again and again struck speech restrictions to the ground, only to be confronted with ever new attempts to control speech. …

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Written by David Frum on Thursday January 21, 2010

More Fun Venezuela Facts: Anti-Semitism

Driving through an older part of Caracas, graffiti everywhere, most of it copies of 1990s U.S. gang tags. But also saw this, in letters 2 feet high : a star of David, and a slogan: "Israel, cause of all our misery." Entrance to a Caracas synagogue. Pedestrian access blocked, auto only, through a …

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Written by David Frum on Thursday January 21, 2010

More Fun Venezuela Facts: Anti-Semitism

Driving through an older part of Caracas, graffiti everywhere, most of it copies of 1990s U.S. gang tags. But also saw this, in letters 2 feet high : a star of David, and a slogan: "Israel, cause of all our misery." Entrance to a Caracas synagogue. Pedestrian access blocked, auto only, through a …

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Written by David Frum on Thursday January 21, 2010

RNC to Offer Members Alternative to "Purity Test"

FF Exclusive: The Republican National Committee is backing away from a controversial "litmus test" for GOP candidates and will offer members a significantly watered-down version to vote upon at its annual conference next week, Frum Forum has learned. The Republican National Committee is …

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Written by Tim Mak on Thursday January 21, 2010

RNC to Offer Members Alternative to "Purity Test"

FF Exclusive: The Republican National Committee is backing away from a controversial "litmus test" for GOP candidates and will offer members a significantly watered-down version to vote upon at its annual conference next week, Frum Forum has learned. The Republican National Committee is …

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Written by Tim Mak on Thursday January 21, 2010

Has the GOP Learned its Lesson Too?

Scott Brown won in Massachusetts with a big-tent Republican campaign. Perhaps the GOP is coming to recognize that victory doesn't wear an ideological straitjacket. Congratulations Scott Brown! Yah-boo to the defeated Democrats. But now the challenge returns to the GOP: Can we learn the right …

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Written by David Frum on Thursday January 21, 2010

Has the GOP Learned its Lesson Too?

Scott Brown won in Massachusetts with a big-tent Republican campaign. Perhaps the GOP is coming to recognize that victory doesn't wear an ideological straitjacket. Congratulations Scott Brown! Yah-boo to the defeated Democrats. But now the challenge returns to the GOP: Can we learn the right …

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Written by David Frum on Thursday January 21, 2010

Edwards' Confession

John Edwards will acknowledge today that he has lied for more than a year about the paternity of his child with Rielle Hunter. It's a pathetic end to a squalid story. John Edwards will acknowledge today that he has lied for more than a year about the paternity of his child with Rielle Hunter. It's …

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Written by David Frum on Thursday January 21, 2010

Edwards' Confession

John Edwards will acknowledge today that he has lied for more than a year about the paternity of his child with Rielle Hunter. It's a pathetic end to a squalid story. John Edwards will acknowledge today that he has lied for more than a year about the paternity of his child with Rielle Hunter. It's …

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Written by David Frum on Thursday January 21, 2010

Palin's Bunker Mentality

To Sarah Palin, every media figure -- even those like Glenn Beck who support her -- has become the enemy. Let's start off with a fact: America doesn't elect victims to the White House.  Michael Dukakis did not become our 41st chief magistrate by complaining about the worst ads he'd seen in 25 …

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Written by Zac Morgan on Thursday January 21, 2010