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			<title><![CDATA[Charles Krauthammer on the perverse logic of Attorney General Eric Holder]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ F or 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. <br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/>
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			<title><![CDATA[Charles Krauthammer on the media coverage of the Fort Hood shooting]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ What a surprise -- that someone who shouts "Allahu Akbar" (the "God is great" jihadist battle cry) as he is shooting up a room of American soldiers might have Islamist motives. It certainly was a surprise to the mainstream media, which spent the weekend after the Fort Hood massacre playing down Nidal Hasan's religious beliefs. <br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/>
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			<title><![CDATA[Charles Krauthammer on the realignment myth of 2008]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ 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 great realignment myth of 2008. <br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/>
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			<title><![CDATA[Charles Krauthammer on Obama's Afghanistan 'drift']]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ Old Soviet joke:<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4720121239476" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4720121239476" border="0" vspace="5"></a> <br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/>
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			<title><![CDATA[Charles Krauthammer on the White House vs. Fox News]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ Rahm Emanuel once sent a dead fish to a live pollster. Now he's put a horse's head in Roger Ailes's bed. <br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/>
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			<title><![CDATA[No Nobel Results From Obama Foreign Policy]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ 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 worthiness would have been universally acknowledged. <br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/>
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			<title><![CDATA[Obama Indecisive About Afghan Strategy]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ 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. <br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/>
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			<title><![CDATA[Sarkozy Snubs Obama on Nuclear Threat Stance]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ "President Obama, I support the Americans' outstretched hand. But what did the international community gain from these offers of dialogue? Nothing."<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4720121244605" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4720121244605" border="0" vspace="5"></a> <br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/>
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			<title><![CDATA[Irving Kristol: A Great Good Man]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ After the plain pine box is lowered into the grave, the mourners are asked to come forward -- immediate family first -- and shovel dirt onto the casket. Only when it is fully covered, only when all that can be seen is dust, is the ceremony complete. <br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/>
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			<title><![CDATA[Obama, Too Subtle to Lie, Misleads on Health Reform]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ You lie? No. Barack Obama doesn't lie. He's too subtle for that. He . . . well, you judge. <br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/>
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			<title><![CDATA[Linking Bush to 9/11 Is Why Van Jones Had to Go]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ So Van Jones, the defenestrated White House green-jobs czar, once called Republicans "assholes." 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). <br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/>
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			<title><![CDATA[Obama's Magic Evaporates in the Heat of the Health-Reform Debate]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ What happened to President Obama? His wax wings having melted, he is the man who fell to earth. What happened to bring his popularity down further than that of any new president in polling history save Gerald Ford (post-Nixon pardon)?<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4720121256094" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4720121256094" border="0" vspace="5"></a> <br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/>
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			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charles Krauthammer]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[A Strategy to Save Obamacare, But at What Cost]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ Obamacare Version 1.0 is dead. The 1,000-page monstrosity that emerged in various editions from Congress was done in by widespread national revulsion not just at its expense and intrusiveness but also at the mendacity with which it is being sold. You don't need a PhD to see that the promise to expand coverage and reduce costs is a crude deception, or that cutting $500 billion from Medicare without affecting care is a fiction. <br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/>
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			<title><![CDATA[Honest Debate Needed on End-of-Life Talk]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ Let's see if we can have a reasoned discussion about end-of-life counseling. <br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Preventive Care Isn't the Magic Bullet for Health Care Costs]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ In the 48 hours of June 15-16, President Obama lost the health-care debate. First, a letter from the Congressional Budget Office to Sen. Edward Kennedy reported that his health committee's reform bill would add $1 trillion in debt over the next decade. Then the CBO reported that the other Senate bill, being written by the Finance Committee, would add $1.6 trillion. The central contradiction of Obamacare was fatally exposed: From his first address to Congress, Obama insisted on the dire need for restructuring the health-care system because out-of-control costs were bankrupting the Treasury and wrecking the U.S. economy -- yet the Democrats' plans would make the problem worse. <br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/>
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			<title><![CDATA[A Better Plan for Health-Care Reform]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ In 1986, Ronald Reagan and Bill Bradley created a legislative miracle. They fashioned a tax reform that stripped loopholes, political favors, payoffs, patronage and other corruptions out of the tax system. With the resulting savings, they lowered tax rates across the board. Those reductions, combined with the elimination of the enormous inefficiencies and perverse incentives that go into tax sheltering, helped propel a 20-year economic boom.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4720121301673" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4720121301673" border="0" vspace="5"></a> <br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/>
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			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charles Krauthammer]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Obama Will Settle for Less on Health Care]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ 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. <br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/>
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			<title><![CDATA[Why Obamacare Is Sinking]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ 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. <br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/>
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			<title><![CDATA[40 Years After Apollo 11, America's Retreat From the Moon]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ Michael Crichton once wrote that if you 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, I quoted these lines expressing Crichton's incredulity at America's abandonment of the moon. It is now 2009 and the moon recedes ever further. <br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/>
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			<title><![CDATA[Obama's Nuclear Arms Deal With Russia Is Plumage -- But at a Price]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 20:53:55 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ The signing ceremony in Moscow was a grand affair. For Barack Obama, foreign policy neophyte and "reset" man, the arms reduction agreement had a Kissingerian air. A fine feather in his cap. And our president likes his plumage.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4720121306294" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4720121306294" border="0" vspace="5"></a> <br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/>
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			<title><![CDATA[Ricci Decision Moves Toward Equal Protection]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ The Supreme Court's ruling in Ricci v. DeStefano -- that white firefighters 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. While overturned on Ricci, she is protected by the four dissenting justices who upheld the side of the case she had taken as an appeals court judge. Sotomayor was additionally helped by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's insistence on reading her dissent from the bench, as if to emphasize the legitimacy of her position -- and, by implication, Sotomayor's. <br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/>
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			<title><![CDATA[Iran's Revolution Needs a Leader]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ Iran today is a revolution in search of its Yeltsin. Without leadership, demonstrators will take to the street only so many times to face tear gas, batons and bullets. They need a leader like Boris Yeltsin: a former establishment figure with newly revolutionary credentials and legitimacy, who stands on a tank and gives the opposition direction by calling for the unthinkable -- the abolition of the old political order. <br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/>
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			<title><![CDATA[Obama Misses the Point With Iran Response]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ 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 America is on their side. <br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/>
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			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charles Krauthammer]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Barack Obama Surveys the World]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ "And the Spirit of God hovered upon the face of the waters"<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4720121313329" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4720121313329" border="0" vspace="5"></a> <br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/>
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			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charles Krauthammer]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Barack Obama's Israeli Settlements Canard]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ President Obama repeatedly insists that American foreign policy be conducted with modesty and humility. Above all, there will be no more "dictating" to other countries. We should "forge partnerships as opposed to simply dictating solutions," he told the G-20 summit. In Middle East negotiations, he told al-Arabiya, America will henceforth "start by listening, because all too often the United States starts by dictating." <br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/>
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			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charles Krauthammer]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[A Republican Response to Sonia Sotomayor: Criticize, Then Confirm]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ Sonia Sotomayor has a classic American story. So does Frank Ricci. <br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/>
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			<title><![CDATA[Obama Adopts the Bush Approach to the War on Terrorism]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ "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." ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charles Krauthammer]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[The Torture Debate, Continued]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ 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 opposition that were, shall we say, spirited.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4720121318251" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4720121318251" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charles Krauthammer]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[The Hamas 'Peace' Gambit]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ "Apart from the time restriction (a truce that lapses after 10 years) and the refusal to accept Israel's existence, Mr. Meshal's terms approximate the Arab League peace plan . . ." ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charles Krauthammer]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[The Use of Torture and What Nancy Pelosi Knew]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ Torture is an impermissible evil. Except under two circumstances. The first is the ticking time bomb. An innocent's life is at stake. The bad guy you have captured possesses information that could save this life. He refuses to divulge. In such a case, the choice is easy. Even John McCain, the most admirable and estimable torture opponent, says openly that in such circumstances, "You do what you have to do." And then take the responsibility. ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charles Krauthammer]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Obama: The Grand Strategy]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ Unified theory of Obamaism, fifth (final?) installment: ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charles Krauthammer]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Barack Obama's 'New Foundation' - a Sting in Four Parts]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ Franklin Roosevelt gave us the New Deal. John Kennedy gave us the New Frontier. In a major domestic policy address at Georgetown University this week, Barack Obama promised -- eight times -- a "New Foundation." For those too thick to have noticed this proclamation of a new era in American history, the White House Web site helpfully titled its speech excerpts "A New Foundation."<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4720121322965" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4720121322965" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charles Krauthammer]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[It's Your Country Too, Mr. President]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ In his major foreign policy address in Prague committing the United States to a world without nuclear weapons, President Obama took note of North Korea's missile launch just hours earlier and then grandiloquently proclaimed: ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charles Krauthammer]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Obama's Ultimate Agenda ]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ Five minutes of explanation to James Madison, and he'll have a pretty good idea what a motorcar is (basically a steamboat on wheels; the internal combustion engine might take a few minutes more). Then try to explain to Madison how the Constitution he fathered allows the president to unilaterally guarantee the repair or replacement of every component of millions of such contraptions sold in the several states, and you will leave him slack-jawed. ]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Bonfire of the Trivialities]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ A $14 trillion economy hangs by a thread composed of (a) a comically cynical, pitchfork-wielding Congress, (b) a hopelessly understaffed, stumbling Obama administration, and (c) $165 million. ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charles Krauthammer]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[President Obama and Stem Cells -- Science Fiction]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ Last week, the White House invited me to a signing ceremony overturning the Bush (43) executive order on stem cell research. I assume this was because I have long argued in these columns and during my five years on the President's Council on Bioethics that, contrary to the Bush policy, federal funding should be extended to research on embryonic stem cell lines derived from discarded embryos in fertility clinics.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4720121329023" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4720121329023" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Obama's Radical Agenda]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ Forget the pork. Forget the waste. Forget the 8,570 earmarks in a bill supported by a president who poses as the scourge of earmarks. Forget the "2 trillion dollars in savings" that "we have already identified," $1.6 trillion of which President Obama's budget director later admits is the "savings" of not continuing the surge in Iraq until 2019 -- 11 years after George Bush ended it, and eight years after even Bush would have had us out of Iraq completely. ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charles Krauthammer]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[The Obamaist Manifesto]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ Not a great speech, but extremely consequential. If Barack Obama succeeds, his joint address to Congress will be seen as historic -- indeed as the foundational document of Obamaism. As it stands, it constitutes the boldest social democratic manifesto ever issued by a U.S. president. ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charles Krauthammer]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Obama's 'Kick Me' Diplomacy]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ The Biden prophecy has come to pass. Our wacky veep, momentarily inspired, predicted in October that "it will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama." Biden probably had in mind an eve-of-the-apocalypse drama like the Cuban missile crisis. Instead, Obama's challenges have come in smaller bites. Some are deliberate threats to U.S. interests, others mere probes to ascertain whether the new president has any spine. ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charles Krauthammer]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Election Day in Iraq -- Landslide for the U.S.]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ Preoccupied as it was poring over Tom Daschle's tax returns, Washington hardly noticed a near-miracle abroad. Iraq held provincial elections. There was no Election Day violence. Security was handled by Iraqi forces with little U.S. involvement. A fabulous bazaar of 14,400 candidates representing 400 parties participated, yielding results highly favorable to both Iraq and the United States.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4720121334232" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4720121334232" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charles Krauthammer]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[The Fierce Urgency of Pork]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ "A failure to act, and act now, will turn crisis into a catastrophe." ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charles Krauthammer]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Obama Distorts America's Stance on Muslims]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ Every new president flatters himself that he, kinder and gentler, is beginning the world anew. Yet, when Barack Obama in his inaugural address reached out to Muslims by saying "to the Muslim world, we seek a new way forward, based on mutual interest and mutual respect," his formulation was needlessly defensive and apologetic. ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charles Krauthammer]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[The Obama Inaugural: Hail Washington -- Not Lincoln]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ Fascinating speech. It was so rhetorically flat, so lacking in rhythm and cadence, one almost has to believe he did it on purpose. Best not to dazzle on Opening Day. Otherwise, they'll expect magic all the time. ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charles Krauthammer]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Exit Bush, Shoes Flying]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ Except for Richard Nixon, no president since Harry Truman has left office more unloved than George W. Bush. Truman's rehabilitation took decades. Bush's will come sooner. Indeed, it has already begun. The chief revisionist? Barack Obama.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4720121340130" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4720121340130" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Endgame in Gaza]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ Israel's leaders have purposely obscured their war aims in Gaza. But there are only two possible endgames: (A) a Lebanon-like cessation of hostilities to be supervised by international observers, or (B) the disintegration of Hamas rule in Gaza. ]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Moral Clarity in Gaza]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ Late Saturday, thousands of Gazans received Arabic-language cell-phone messages from the Israeli military, urging them to leave homes where militants might have stashed weapons. ]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[No Inheritance in Senate]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charles Krauthammer]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Obama's Plan for a Domestic Transformation]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ Barack Obama has garnered praise from center to right -- and has highly irritated the left -- with the centrism of his major appointments. Because Obama's own beliefs remain largely opaque, his appointments have led to the conclusion that he intends to govern from the center.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4720121344867" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4720121344867" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[A Quiet Earthquake in Baghdad]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ The barbarism in Mumbai and the economic crisis at home have largely overshadowed an otherwise singular event: the ratification of military and strategic cooperation agreements between Iraq and the United States. ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charles Krauthammer]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[From Market Economy to Political Economy]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ In the old days -- from the Venetian Republic to, oh, the Bear Stearns rescue -- if you wanted to get rich, you did it the Warren Buffett way: You learned to read balance sheets. Today you learn to read political tea leaves. If you want to make money on Wall Street (or keep from losing your shirt), you do it not by anticipating Intel's third-quarter earnings but by guessing instead what side of the bed Henry Paulson will wake up on tomorrow. ]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[A Lemon of a Bailout]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ Finally, the outlines of a coherent debate on the federal bailout. This comes as welcome relief from a campaign season that gave us the House Republicans' know-nothing rejectionism, John McCain's mindless railing against "greed and corruption," and Barack Obama's detached enunciation of vacuous bailout "principles" that allowed him to be all things to all people. ]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[The Campaign Autopsy]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ In my previous life, I witnessed far more difficult postmortems. This one is easy. The patient was fatally stricken on Sept. 15 -- caught in the rubble when the roof fell in (at Lehman Brothers, according to the police report) -- although he did linger until his final, rather quiet demise on Nov. 4.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4720121350148" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4720121350148" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[McCain for President, Part II]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ Last week I made the open-and-shut case for John McCain: In a dangerous world entering an era of uncontrolled nuclear proliferation, the choice between the most prepared foreign policy candidate in memory vs. a novice with zero experience and the wobbliest one-world instincts is not a close call. ]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ Contrarian that I am, I'm voting for John McCain. I'm not talking about bucking the polls or the media consensus that it's over before it's over. I'm talking about bucking the rush of wet-fingered conservatives leaping to Barack Obama before they're left out in the cold without a single state dinner for the next four years. ]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Who's Playing the Race Card?]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ Let me get this straight. A couple of agitated yahoos in a rally of thousands yell something offensive and incendiary, and John McCain and Sarah Palin are not just guilty by association -- with total strangers, mind you -- but worse: guilty according to the New York Times of "race-baiting and xenophobia." ]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Obama & Friends: Judge Not?]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ Convicted felon Tony Rezko. Unrepentant terrorist Bill Ayers. And the race-baiting Rev. Jeremiah Wright. It is hard to think of any presidential candidate before Barack Obama sporting associations with three more execrable characters. Yet let the McCain campaign raise the issue, and the mainstream media begin fulminating about dirty campaigning tinged with racism and McCarthyite guilt by association.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4720121354918" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4720121354918" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Hail Mary vs. Cool Barry]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ Krauthammer's Hail Mary Rule: You get only two per game. John McCain, unfortunately, has already thrown three. The first was his bet on the surge, a deep pass to David Petraeus who miraculously ran it all the way into the end zone. ]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Catharsis, Then Common Sense]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson went to Capitol Hill seeking $700 billion. He got an earful. Now, $700 billion is a serious sum, and Congress has the fiduciary responsibility to make sure the money it appropriates goes for a good cause. But from the indignant congressional demands for a laundry list of quid pro quos, you would have thought Paulson wanted it for his personal use. ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charles Krauthammer]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[History Will Judge]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ For the past 150 years, most American war presidents -- most notably Lincoln, Wilson and Roosevelt -- have entered (or reentered) office knowing war was looming. Not so George W. Bush. Not so the war on terror. The 9/11 attacks literally came out of the blue. ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charles Krauthammer]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Charlie Gibson's Gaffe]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 13 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ "At times visibly nervous . . . Ms. Palin most visibly stumbled when she was asked by Mr. Gibson if she agreed with the Bush doctrine. Ms. Palin did not seem to know what he was talking about. Mr. Gibson, sounding like an impatient teacher, informed her that it meant the right of 'anticipatory self-defense.' "<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4720121400036" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4720121400036" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charles Krauthammer]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Obama's Altitude Sickness]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ The Democrats are in a panic. In a presidential race that is impossible to lose, they are behind. Obama devotees are frantically giving advice. Tom Friedman tells him to "start slamming down some phones." Camille Paglia suggests, "be boring!" ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charles Krauthammer]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Palin's Problem]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ "There are two questions we will never have to ask ourselves, 'Who is this man?' and 'Can we trust this man with the presidency?' " ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charles Krauthammer]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[The Perfect Stranger]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ Barack Obama is an immensely talented man whose talents have been largely devoted to crafting, and chronicling, his own life. Not things. Not ideas. Not institutions. But himself. ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charles Krauthammer]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[NATO Meows]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ Read the first five paragraphs of the NATO statement on the Russian invasion of Georgia and you will find not a hint of who invaded whom. The statement is almost comically evenhanded. "We deplore all loss of life," it declared, as if deploring a bus accident. And, it "expressed its grave concern over the situation in Georgia." Situation, mind you.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4720121404850" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4720121404850" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charles Krauthammer]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[How to Stop Putin]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ The Russia-Georgia cease-fire brokered by France's president is less than meets the eye. Its terms keep moving as the Russian army keeps moving. Russia has since occupied Gori (appropriately, Stalin's birthplace), effectively cutting Georgia in two. The road to the capital, Tbilisi, is open, but apparently Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has temporarily chosen to seek his objectives through military pressure and Western acquiescence rather than by naked occupation. ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charles Krauthammer]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[No Will To Drill]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ Let's see: housing meltdown, credit crunch, oil shock not seen since the 1970s. The economy is slowing, unemployment growing and inflation increasing. It's the sixth year of a highly unpopular war, and the president's approval rating is at 30 percent. ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charles Krauthammer]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Pelosi: Save the Planet, Let Someone Else Drill]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ House Speaker Nancy Pelosi opposes lifting the moratorium on drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and on the Outer Continental Shelf. She won't even allow it to come to a vote. With $4 gas having massively shifted public opinion in favor of domestic production, she wants to protect her Democratic members from having to cast an anti-drilling election-year vote. Moreover, given the public mood, she might even lose. This cannot be permitted. Why? Because, as she explained to Politico: "I'm trying to save the planet; I'm trying to save the planet." ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charles Krauthammer]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[Maliki Votes for Obama]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ In a stunning upset, Barack Obama this week won the Iraq primary. When Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki not once but several times expressed support for a U.S. troop withdrawal on a timetable that accorded roughly with Obama's 16-month proposal, he did more than legitimize the plan. He relieved Obama of a major political liability by blunting the charge that, in order to appease the MoveOn left, Obama was willing to jeopardize the astonishing success of the surge and risk losing a war that is finally being won.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4720121408137" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=4720121408137" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[The Audacity of Vanity]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ Barack Obama wants to speak at the Brandenburg Gate. He figures it would be a nice backdrop. The supporting cast -- a cheering audience and a few fainting frauleins -- would be a picturesque way to bolster his foreign policy credentials. ]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[How Hostages, And Nations, Get Liberated]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[ On the day the Colombian military freed Ingrid Betancourt and 14 other long-held hostages, the Italian Parliament passed yet another resolution demanding her release. Europe had long ago adopted this French-Colombian politician as a cause celebre. France had made her an honorary citizen of Paris, passed numerous resolutions and held many vigils. ]]></description>
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