By Charles Krauthammer, Published: May 26 Every Arab-Israeli negotiation contains a fundamental asymmetry: Israel gives up land, which is tangible; the Arabs make promises, which are ephemeral. The long-standing American solution has been to nonetheless urge Israel to take risks for peace while America balances things by giving assurances of U.S. support for Israel’s security and […]
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The news in Obama’s speech By Charles Krauthammer, Published: May 19 Herewith President Obama’s Middle East speech , annotated: “It will be the policy of the United States to promote reform across the region, and to support transitions to democracy.” With this Barack Obama openly, unreservedly and without a trace of irony or self-reflection adopts the
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By Charles Krauthammer May 12, 2011 —Barack Obama, speech on immigration, El Paso, Texas, May 10 Constructive and civil debate — like the one Obama initiated just four weeks ago on deficit reduction? The speech in which he accused the Republicans of abandoning families of autistic and Down syndrome kids? The debate in which Obama’s
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NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE www.nationalreview.com Charles Krauthammer April 22, 2011 12:00 A.M. 2012: The Racing Form A look at the long shots, the serious candidates, and the 2016 bench. Unified Field Theory of 2012, Axiom One: The more the Republicans can make the 2012 election like 2010, the better their chances of winning. The 2010 Democratic
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Charles Krauthammer: The professor’s war By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER 2011-03-24 President Obama is proud of how he put together the Libyan operation. A model of international cooperation. All the necessary paperwork. Arab League backing. A Security Council resolution. (Everything but a resolution from the Congress of the United States, a minor inconvenience for a citizen of
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Charles Krauthammer: It’s still an empty lockbox By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER 2011-03-17 Last week, President Obama’s budget chief, Jack Lew, took to his White House blog to repeat his claim that the Social Security trust fund is solvent through 2037; and to chide me for suggesting otherwise. I had argued in my last column that the
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NEWS&OBSERVER Feb 18, 2011 Red ink and raw cynicism by Charles Krauthammer WASHINGTON Five days before his inauguration, President-elect Barack Obama told The Washington Post that entitlement reform could no longer be kicked down the road. He then spent the next two years kicking – racking up $3 trillion in new debt along the way
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NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Egypt’s dangerous road ahead: The Muslim Brotherhood’s a force, ElBaradei’s a useful idiot Charles Krauthammer Friday, February 4th 2011, Who doesn’t love a democratic revolution? Who is not moved by the renunciation of fear and the reclamation of dignity in the streets of Cairo and Alexandria? The worldwide euphoria that has
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Massacre, followed by libel By Charles Krauthammer Washington Post – Wednesday, January 12, 2011; http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/11/AR2011011106068_pf.html The charge: The Tucson massacre is a consequence of the “climate of hate” created by Sarah Palin, the Tea Party, Glenn Beck, Obamacare opponents and sundry other liberal betes noires. The verdict: Rarely in American political discourse has there been
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Government by regulation. Shhh. By Charles Krauthammer Friday, December 31, 2010; Most people don’t remember Obamacare’s notorious Section 1233, mandating government payments for end-of-life counseling. It aroused so much anxiety as a possible first slippery step on the road to state-mandated late-life rationing that the Senate never included it in the final health-care law. Well,
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