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Entries from May 2007

The Last Nail In The Gop’s Coffin

David Frum wrote on May 26th, 2007 at 12:00 am

The Republican party is hurtling toward disaster in 2008. The latest polls report that 61 percent of Americans think that the Iraq war was a mistake. More than 70 percent of Americans think the country is on the “wrong track”–an astonishingly bad number for a non-recession year.
Historically, Democrats have been perceived as the more   more

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Hamas Wants War

David Frum wrote on May 19th, 2007 at 12:00 am

Will Israel be provoked into another war this summer? Hamas in Gaza is desperately trying to start a fight. In mid-April, Hamas ended a six-month pause and resumed firing rockets into southern Israel. Three thousand rockets have landed in the past month; 80 in just the past three days. (Video of the attacks can be   more

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Some Advice For Three Leading Republicans

David Frum wrote on May 12th, 2007 at 12:00 am

Walking on a beach shortly after leaving the White House, former Bush aide Karen Hughes looked up and spotted a little plane towing an advertising banner. The banner said, approximately: “Jill, please come back. I am nothing without you. Jack.” She thought: “Wrong message. It’s too much about you, not enough about her.”
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Taiwan’s Dangerous Game

David Frum wrote on May 5th, 2007 at 12:00 am

Listen children, and I will tell you a tale of long, long ago.
Once upon a time in China there lived a man named Chiang Kai-Shek. He led a Chinese political party, the Kuomintang, that fought China’s communists. The Kuomintang lost the fight, and Chiang and his followers took refuge on the island of Taiwan,   more

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