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Entries from September 2005

From Overseas: Lessons, And Reasons For Hope

David Frum wrote on September 29th, 2005 at 12:00 am

We’ve come a long distance from the Third Way. In the 1990s, a new generation of left-of-centre figures replaced the conservatives who had dominated the 1980s. Bill Clinton defeated a worn-out George Bush in the White House. A stumbling John Major lost power to the young and dynamic Tony Blair. Corpulent Helmut Kohl gave way more

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Divided They Stand

David Frum wrote on September 28th, 2005 at 12:00 am

The only real debate over Iraq is among conservatives. more

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Bush Is Incurious And Dogmatic, But He Is Still The Right Leader

David Frum wrote on September 27th, 2005 at 12:00 am

This has been a very bad month for the Bush presidency, maybe the worst to date: Hurricane Katrina, bad news from Iraq and grumbling from within the president’s own party over spending and immigration. The man who once scored the highest approval numbers in the history of U.S. presidential polling is now scoring some of more

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Marching Against War–and Jews

David Frum wrote on September 27th, 2005 at 12:00 am

In Washington last weekend, tens of thousands of people gathered in the largest protest to date against the Iraq war. The tally has to be approximate: The National Park Service no longer provides estimates of attendees at rallies and demonstrations, and counts by the groups themselves are notoriously unreliable. But there is no denying that more

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Older And Wiser?

David Frum wrote on September 26th, 2005 at 12:00 am

A Weekly Standard 10th Anniversary Symposium more

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Germany Needs A Jolt

David Frum wrote on September 20th, 2005 at 12:00 am

German voters have just elected a parliament that will not address the country’s most important problems, that cannot make strong decisions and that will put off until tomorrow actions that desperately need to be taken today.
That’s bad news for Germany’s five million unemployed. It’s bad news for Europe as a whole, slumped in economic more

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Mulroney Has Much To Be Proud Of

David Frum wrote on September 17th, 2005 at 12:00 am

When U.S. President Harry Truman got mad, he would write an angry letter to the person who had offended him, seal it in an envelope, put a stamp on it–and then wait until the next morning and throw it away. Brian Mulroney would have been well advised to try this technique. Instead, he talked and more

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The Decline Of Old Europe

David Frum wrote on September 13th, 2005 at 12:00 am

COLMAR, France–Visiting this charming Alsatian town for a conference on European defense, I tuned into French TV 5 for half an hour on Sunday evening. I caught the final segment of a program called Ripostes, a French-language Crossfirewith three on a side.
The topic for debate: “Is the United States a superpower with feet of more

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Who Are We?

David Frum wrote on September 12th, 2005 at 12:00 am

An Ancient, Many-Faced Question, Now with Acute Relevance more

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Ignatieff Appeals To Old School Liberals

David Frum wrote on September 6th, 2005 at 12:00 am

National Post reader Angelo Zenga generously nominated me for prime minister of Canada in a letter to the editor last week. I appreciate the compliment, but the campaign consultants can quit working on their Power Point sales pitches: I’m not running.
Mr. Zenga was responding to the rumours swirling about Michael Ignatieff as a potential candidate more

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Bush May Not Be Able To Escape Storm: Political Careers Can Be Broken On The Shoals Of A Natural Disaster

David Frum wrote on September 3rd, 2005 at 12:00 am

Hurricane Katrina began as a natural disaster, unleashed a human tragedy, and is rapidly boiling into a political brawl.
The worst natural disaster in American history has become an ideological storm, with accusations and counter-accusations flying even before the flooding can be plugged and the dead counted.
On the left, Katrina has become an opportunity more

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