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Entries from November 2005

Bush’s Doomed Immigration Gamble

David Frum wrote on November 30th, 2005 at 12:00 am

You have to give George W. Bush this: Even when he is wrong, he is brave.
Look at him on Monday: He has sunk below 40% in the polls, the lowest level in his presidency, depressed by the war in Iraq and high gasoline prices. So what does he do? He travels to Arizona, a   more

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Here’s How Harper Can Fight Back

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

We know how the Liberals will campaign against Stephen Harper. They will fill the airwaves with ads in which a concerned female voice talks of a “scary secret agenda” while the screen flashes grim, black-and-white photographs of the Conservative leader.
The real question is: How will Harper fight back?
Maybe this time, he should try   more

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The Party Of Cut And Run?

David Frum wrote on November 22nd, 2005 at 12:00 am

At last, a little reality. On Thursday, Democratic congressman John P. Murtha delivered a dramatic, tearful denunciation of the Iraq war. The speech carried special force because Murtha is one of the more hawkish members of the Democratic caucus: a Vietnam vet, a former Marine, a past chairman of the House Armed Services committee.*
Murtha   more

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George W. Bush, Comeback Kid?

David Frum wrote on November 21st, 2005 at 12:00 am

Some suggestions for how to do it.  more

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Book’em, Jacques

David Frum wrote on November 15th, 2005 at 12:00 am

The French must really like urban riots–because they are responding to the violence in their suburbs with new policies that will almost certainly invite more and worse violence in the future.
Almost everybody agrees that the riots can be traced to two fundamental causes:
1. the failure of the French economy to generate jobs and   more

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America The Just

David Frum wrote on November 14th, 2005 at 12:00 am

American Myths, a five-part series aimed at addressing Canadian misapprehensions about our southern neighbour, is a joint project of the National Post, the Dominion Institute and the Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute. In this second installment, columnist David Frum writes on the myth that Canada is a more “just” society than the United States.   more

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The Questions Gomery Didn’t Answer

David Frum wrote on November 8th, 2005 at 12:00 am

During the days when the Institutional Revolutionary Party ruled Mexico, the country would undergo a remarkable ritual every six years.
A new president would take power in the one-party state. He would immediately order an investigation into his predecessor’s abuses of power — and would discover to his horror that his former boss had been a   more

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A Pariah Among Nations

David Frum wrote on November 1st, 2005 at 12:00 am

Hours after Iran’s new President said Israel should be “wiped off the map,” Paul Martin stepped forward to speak for Canada:
“That kind of lack of respect, intolerance, anti-Semitism — this is the 21st century and that statement is just out of an era that is long past and never should have occurred.”
As Canadians   more

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