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Entries from May 2008

In Mcclellan, Bush Reaps What He’s Sown

David Frum wrote on May 31st, 2008 at 12:00 am

Except maybe for MSNBC’s wild-eyed commentator Keith Olbermann, nobody in politics or media seems to have a good word to say for Scott McClellan, the former George W. Bush press secretary turned ferocious Bush critic.
The right complains of his disloyalty. The left complains that McClellan’s change of heart arrived too late. The old Washington   more

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Don’t Call It ‘inflation’

David Frum wrote on May 24th, 2008 at 12:00 am

The late 1960s were a tough time to be a kid. There was a time that you could buy a bag of potato chips for a nickel. Then the bag cost a dime. Then 15ยข.
It took a lot of growing up to understand what was really happening: It wasn’t the cost of potato chips that   more

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Democracy To Democracy

David Frum wrote on May 17th, 2008 at 12:00 am

Seven bombs exploded in the Indian city of Jaipur on the evening of May 13. An eighth was placed outside a Hindu temple just outside the city. At least 63 people were killed, more than 200 wounded. Nobody claimed responsibility for the attack, but Indian media and police take for granted that the atrocity was   more

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Subsidizing Ethanol Was A Mistake

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

It was a routine drop-by for President Bush.
Speaking last weekend at a high-tech firm near St. Louis, Missouri, the president attempted to defend himself against the charge that his policies were responsible for rising food prices.
Bush has strongly favoured subsidies to ethanol: motor fuel made from corn. One-third of the   more

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Republicans Must Change To Win

David Frum wrote on May 7th, 2008 at 12:00 am

These have been a terrible few weeks for the Democrats – so bad that Republicans are feeling faint flickers of hope.
Damaging revelations about Barack Obama – and his own and his wife Michelle’s ill-chosen words – have opened the way for John McCain to rerun the Republican presidential campaign of 1988. That year, George H.W.   more

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America’s Ally In The Middle East

David Frum wrote on May 3rd, 2008 at 12:00 am

Why does the United States support Israel so strongly?
Israel’s enemies think they know the answer: It is a conspiracy, the work of a sinister “lobby.”
But there’s a simpler and more powerful explanation: The American people favour the Jewish state over its enemies — and that support has only intensified with the passage of   more

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The Loyal Son

David Frum wrote on May 1st, 2008 at 12:00 am

Like thousands before and after me, I first met William F. Buckley because of Yale.
A group of us from the Yale Political Union had invited the conservative magazine editor R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr. to come talk to us. Tyrrell generously accepted — and asked if he could bring his friend Bill Buckley   more

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