Rubio's False Bio: Why It Matters

The more I think about the Rubio scandal , the more I am troubled by it. It's not just that having lived in the Soviet Union for a quarter century, I find it offensive when people falsely claim themselves or their families to have been victims of Communist oppression. I am really concerned about …

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Written by Andrew Pavelyev on Monday October 24, 2011

Why Defend Exaggeration?

Breaking ... Jimmy Carter was not actually a nuclear engineer, and Ronald Reagan did not actually witness the liberation of concentration camps. Like a lot of politicians, President Obama very much included, Marco Rubio shaded his biography to make his life story slightly more compelling. …

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Written by David Frum on Friday October 21, 2011

The Ugly Truth About the American Dream

The promise of upward economic mobility is central to the American Dream. Marco Rubio invoked it at CPAC in 2010 with  stirring language: [America is] the only place in the world where it doesn't matter who your parents were or where you came from. You can be anything you are willing to work …

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Written by Noah Kristula-Green on Friday September 16, 2011

Marco Rubio Bashes Republicans

I'll have more to say later about Marco Rubio's very interesting and very important speech at the Reagan Library from August the 24th. For now, just one point: You know, we at the Frum Forum take a certain amount of heat for the offense of "bashing fellow Republicans." My defense: part …

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Written by David Frum on Thursday August 25, 2011