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May 17, 2013
OTHER VOICES
When Philadelphia doctor Kermit Gosnell was put on trial for murder, activists seized on the case as a symbol of all that is wrong with abortion in America, and used it to call for tighter restrictions and stepped-up oversight. But though Gosnell’s behavior was deplorable, macabre and unquestionably illegal, it was aberrational, not symbolic.
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George Will |
May 17, 2013
Scandal trifecta: The loss of trust
WASHINGTON — Leaving aside the seriousness of lawlessness, and the corruption of our civic culture by the professionally pious, this past week has been amusing. There was the spectacle of advocates of an ever-larger regulatory government expressing shock about such government’s large capacity for misbehavior.
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May 16, 2013
OTHER VOICES
The Obama administration is starting to make extraordinary abuses of power look ordinary. Hard on the heels of the revelation of an IRS crackdown on conservative groups comes news that federal prosecutors orchestrated a roundup of journalists’ telephone records, leaving yet another set of federal boot prints on the First Amendment.
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May 16, 2013
Truth-shading, arrogance and intrusion
Multiple White House claims about Washington’s handling of the murderous raid in Benghazi stand exposed as false.
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Kathleen Parker |
May 15, 2013
Scandals: common enemy is government
WASHINGTON -- Breaking news: Conservative organizations suddenly have found common cause with one of their favorite objects of contempt — the benighted Mainstream Media.
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May 15, 2013
OTHER VOICES
With three first-degree murder verdicts against Kermit Gosnell, we can call him a baby-killer without the political freight that that term usually carries in the fight over abortion rights. There was no ambiguity in his actions, no debate over when a fetus becomes viable when he performed his illegal late-term abortions of some babies who were born alive.
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May 14, 2013
OTHER VOICES
Massing the heavy legal artillery of First Amendment principles, a federal appeals court has ruled that the federal government can’t order businesses to post signs informing employees that they have a right to join a union and to bargain for better wages. It’s a troubling ruling.
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Charles Krauthammer |
May 14, 2013
Red line over Damascus now pink
WASHINGTON — You know you’re in trouble when you can’t even get your walk-back story straight. Stung by the worldwide derision that met President Obama’s fudging and fumbling of his chemical-weapons red line in Syria, the White House leaked to the New York Times that Obama’s initial statement had been unprepared, unscripted and therefore unserious.
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May 13, 2013
OTHER VOICES
The news that sexual assaults in the armed forces last year were estimated to be up 35 percent over 2010 brought a swift response from President Obama — that he had “no tolerance” for sexual crimes in the ranks and that perpetrators would be prosecuted and punished.
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May 13, 2013
Will Dodd-Frank save capitalism?
WASHINGTON — It's been five years since the onset of the financial crisis — the rescue of Bear Stearns in March 2008 — and we still don't know whether the financial system is safe. In a recent speech, Daniel Tarullo, the Federal Reserve's point man on regulation, contended that substantial, though incomplete, progress has been made.
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May 11, 2013
U.S. credibility not on line in Syria
NEW YORK — President Obama’s critics have pounced on his use of the phrase “red line” to urge military intervention in Syria. They argue, in the words of Sens. John McCain and Lindsey Graham, that the “credibility of the United States is on the line,” with Iran, North Korea and others watching.
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May 11, 2013
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The federal government is expected to hit its statutory credit limit later this month, setting the stage for yet another battle between the Obama administration and the House GOP over raising the debt ceiling. Republican leaders of the House Ways and Means Committee reportedly want something new in return for raising the limit: an agreement to simplify the tax code and reduce rates.
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