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Entries from April 2008

The Axis Of Evil: An Idiot’s Guide

David Frum wrote on April 26th, 2008 at 12:00 am

Mystery solved. On Sept. 6 of last year, Israeli warplanes struck a facility in the deserts of eastern Syria. The Israelis refused to explain what they had hit or why. The Syrians immediately bulldozed the site to block all further investigation. The U.S. government acknowledged the attack but declined otherwise to comment. And the world   more

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Elections Canada’s Campaign Against Free Speech

David Frum wrote on April 19th, 2008 at 12:00 am

Yesterday on this page, Gerry Nicholls accused Elections Canada of being a power-crazed bureaucracy motivated by petty vindictiveness.
That’s the optimistic scenario! Power-crazed bureaucrats can be restrained or replaced.
The more frightening possibility raised by this week’s RCMP “visit” to Conservative party headquarters is that the Canadian bureaucracy has once again revealed a deep, sustained   more

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Why The Gop Lost The Youth Vote

David Frum wrote on April 9th, 2008 at 12:00 am

A generation ago, Republicans owned the youth vote.
In 1984 and 1988, first Ronald Reagan and then George H.W. Bush won first-time voters and under-29 voters by big margins: 20 points in 1984. The twentysomethings of the 1980s remain the most Republican cohort in the electorate to this day.
But since 1990, the GOP has   more

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Big News Out Of Basra

David Frum wrote on April 5th, 2008 at 12:00 am

What the hell is going on in Basra? According to the major media outlets in New York and London, the answer is: a major defeat for U.S. and British policy in Iraq. This is how the well-regarded Michael Gordon of The New York Times reported the story:
“Mr. Maliki overestimated his military’s abilities and underestimated   more

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