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Entries from March 2006

The Great Immigration Debate

David Frum wrote on March 28th, 2006 at 12:00 am

Harriet Miers was strike one. Dubai was strike two.
Will immigration prove strike three for the Bush administration?
For five years, George W. Bush kept a stronger hold on the support of his party than any president since perhaps Franklin Roosevelt. Not even Ronald Reagan had to worry less about internal dissent than President Bush.
But   more

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The Nightmare That Could Have Been

David Frum wrote on March 21st, 2006 at 12:00 am

On this third anniversary of the war in Iraq, the mood in Washington is heavy with recrimination. You might think the important question in Iraq is how to move forward to success. Instead, we find ourselves endlessly rearguing the original decision to fight the war in the first place.
So OK, I’ll play. Let me   more

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The High Price Of The Dubai Ports World Debacle

David Frum wrote on March 16th, 2006 at 12:00 am

If you were to identify a single time and place at which the Dubai Ports World deal was lost, it was February 21, aboard Air Force One as George W. Bush, US president, flew back to Washington from a Colorado visit. Bill Frist, leader of the Senate’s Republican majority and a 2008 presidential contender, had   more

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Why Are We Subsidizing Palestinian Extremism?

David Frum wrote on March 14th, 2006 at 12:00 am

Visitors to Paris really must make time for a visit to the fabled rue St. Honore, one of the world’s most expensive streets: Gucci is here, as is Faberge. Oh and somebody else, too: Suha Arafat, widow of the late Palestinian leader, who reportedly occupies one of the last private houses on the street where   more

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Why Australia Needs The Death Penalty

David Frum wrote on March 7th, 2006 at 12:00 am

Executing murderers is the best way to kill off all crime – it’s worked for the United States.  more

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Our Friends In New Delhi

David Frum wrote on March 7th, 2006 at 12:00 am

“The supreme political fact of the 20th century,” goes a prediction often credited to Otto von Bismarck, “will be that the United States and Great Britain speak the same language.” I’ll venture a prediction of my own: The supreme political fact of the 21st may well turn out to be that the Indian political elite   more

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