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As Obama Blunders, Romney Implodes

If Barack Obama wins reelection, as current polling trends predict he will — perhaps resoundingly — we can expect to hear in the weeks that follow endless analytical wisdom from the usual chorus of...

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Romney’s Closing Argument: See What Sticks

We can never know whether a more populist Republican presidential nominee — Mike Huckabee, say, or Rick Santorum, or even Rick Perry — might have been able to successfully frame the 2012 election as a...

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Secession, Imaginary and Real

SBA73 / Flickr Since the reelection of President Obama, there’s been a surge of interest in secession. A petition on the White House webpage requesting that Washington allow Texas to secede has...

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The Retrovirus of Upper-Income Tax Cuts

Pete Spiliakos has a smart post pushing back against the idea that Republicans embrace upper-income tax cuts as a sop to rich donors. He looks at the primary campaigns of Tim Pawlenty, Ron Paul, Rick...

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A B.A. in Three Years?

Degrees at American universities take too long to complete, cost too much money, and don’t reliably indicate the acquisition of knowledge or skills. On these points, almost all observers of higher...

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Government ‘Revel’-ing in Private-Sector Investment

lotos_leo / Flickr.com President Obama is not a closet socialist or cunningly patient radical. What he is—or what he fancies himself—is a neo-Whig. The Henry Clay of the 21st century. He never tires of...

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CPAC: The Conservative Case for Criminal Justice Reform

If only Nixon could go to China, then, in the opinion of Grover Norquist, only conservatives can reform the criminal justice system. The president of Americans for Tax Reform joined Texas Governor Rick...

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WSJ Overhypes Story of ‘Scrambling’ over Health Exchange Uncertainty

At first glance, I thought my informal bet—that a red-state governor will soon claim he stood up to the Obama administration over the formation of health exchanges, despite knowing full well that his...

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