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Oregon
Makes Some History
By: Mark Shields
In politics, the winners get to write the history.
When Republican Scott Brown, in an authentic upset on Jan. 19,
won the special election to fill the Massachusetts Senate seat
held for 47 years by the late Ted Kennedy, the victors told us
that the Brown victory unmistakably proclaimed the electorate's
anger with one, or more, of the following: President Obama, his
health care plan, the recession, Washington and its condescending
indifference to ordinary citizens, Big Government, Big Deficits,
Big Taxes, bailouts, Democrats and liberalism.
Don't
Ask, Don't Tell
By: Susan Estrich I don't get it.
Since 1993, more than 13,000 soldiers have been discharged from the military
under the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" (DADT) policy. Countless others
are effectively denied access to mental health and other services because they
can't tell.
In 2006, a blue ribbon commission concluded that the policy -- at that point
-- had cost the military some
Special
Elections Can Really Be Special
By: Mark Shields
Special elections are politically freaky. They are
hostage to the whim of unpredictable voter turnout on some random
date. At least, that's how some quivering Democrats, still reeling
from the jolt of Republican Scott Brown's smashing victory in the
special Massachusetts Senate election, are consoling themselves.
Not to be mean, but let's look at the history books.
Just
Another Joe Wilson to Love
By: Mary Lyon
I love Joe Wilson. Again! Which sets me up here
and now to make sure a critical distinction is made. Joe Wilson
is not Joseph Wilson, the former ambassador whom I really do love
for the devotion and fiery outrage he’s displayed in nonstop
defense of his wife, outed CIA undercover agent Valerie Plame.
The other Joe Wilson, by contrast, seems more like an inhabitant
of Superman’s Bizarro World.
Release
Our Better Angel: Universal Health Care
By: Tony Zurlo Opponents of universal health care shout down
any attempt at a civil discussion about reforming the health care
system in America. They accuse supporters of universal health care
of being “closet socialists” with a secret agenda to
abolish the basic rights of Americans. Just the thought of universal
health care has morphed into an alarming threat to our Bill of
Rights, and especially to gun ownership; so soldiers of the Second
Amendment roar into town on their hogs packin’ heat, just
in case the town meeting veers away from socialism, gun control,
and government paid abortions.
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