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Too much agreement means more entitlements
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Bipartisanship, the supposed scarcity of which so distresses the high-minded, actually is disastrously prevalent.
Since 2001, it has produced No Child Left Behind, a counterproductive federal intrusion in primary and secondary education; the McCain-Feingold speech rationing law (the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act); an unfunded prescription drug en
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George Will -
5/16/2012 6:23 PM
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Too much agreement means more entitlements
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Bipartisanship, the supposed scarcity of which so distresses the high-minded, actually is disastrously prevalent.
Since 2001, it has produced No Child Left Behind, a counterproductive federal intrusion in primary and secondary education; the McCain-Feingold speech rationing law (the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act); an unfunded prescription drug en
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George Will -
5/16/2012 6:23 PM
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The American dream in an automobile
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“You have a Prius. . . . You probably compost, sort all your recycling, and have a reusable shopping bag for your short drive to Whole Foods. You are the best! So, do we really need the Obama sticker?”
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George Will -
5/11/2012 6:25 PM
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The American dream in an automobile
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“You have a Prius. . . . You probably compost, sort all your recycling, and have a reusable shopping bag for your short drive to Whole Foods. You are the best! So, do we really need the Obama sticker?”
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George Will -
5/11/2012 6:25 PM
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Some Caps fans will avert their eyes
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Stanley, my friend from the gym, won’t watch Saturday’s Game 7 of the NHL’s Eastern Conference semifinal series between the Washington Capitals and New York Rangers. He’ll be in front of his television, but he’ll be reading a newspaper or magazine, avoiding the screen with the sound off, except to look up every seven minutes. “I just get too nervou
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George Will -
5/11/2012 6:23 PM
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Some Caps fans will avert their eyes
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Stanley, my friend from the gym, won’t watch Saturday’s Game 7 of the NHL’s Eastern Conference semifinal series between the Washington Capitals and New York Rangers. He’ll be in front of his television, but he’ll be reading a newspaper or magazine, avoiding the screen with the sound off, except to look up every seven minutes. “I just get too nervou
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George Will -
5/11/2012 6:23 PM
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Taxing jobs out of existence
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BLOOMINGTON, Ind.
Bill Hewlett and David Packard, tinkering in a California garage, began what became Hewlett-Packard. Steve Jobs and a friend built a computer in the California garage that became Apple’s birthplace. Bill Cook had no garage, so he launched Cook Medical in a spare bedroom in an apartment in this university town. Half a century ago,
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George Will -
5/9/2012 6:10 PM
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Taxing jobs out of existence
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BLOOMINGTON, Ind.
Bill Hewlett and David Packard, tinkering in a California garage, began what became Hewlett-Packard. Steve Jobs and a friend built a computer in the California garage that became Apple’s birthplace. Bill Cook had no garage, so he launched Cook Medical in a spare bedroom in an apartment in this university town. Half a century ago,
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George Will -
5/9/2012 6:10 PM
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Taking a scythe to the Bill of Rights
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Controversies can be wonderfully clarified when people follow the logic of illogical premises to perverse conclusions. For example, two academics recently wrote in the British Journal of Medical Ethics that “after-birth abortions” — killing newborn babies — are matters of moral indifference because newborns, like fetuses, “do not have the same mora
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George Will -
5/4/2012 7:28 PM
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Taking a scythe to the Bill of Rights
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Controversies can be wonderfully clarified when people follow the logic of illogical premises to perverse conclusions. For example, two academics recently wrote in the British Journal of Medical Ethics that “after-birth abortions” — killing newborn babies — are matters of moral indifference because newborns, like fetuses, “do not have the same mora
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George Will -
5/4/2012 7:28 PM
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Jon Will’s gift
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When Jonathan Frederick Will was born 40 years ago — on May 4, 1972, his father’s 31st birthday — the life expectancy for people with Down syndrome was about 20 years. That is understandable.
The day after Jon was born, a doctor told Jon’s parents that the first question for them was whether they intended to take Jon home from the hospital. Nonpl
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George Will -
5/2/2012 5:14 PM
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Jon Will’s gift
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When Jonathan Frederick Will was born 40 years ago — on May 4, 1972, his father’s 31st birthday — the life expectancy for people with Down syndrome was about 20 years. That is understandable.
The day after Jon was born, a doctor told Jon’s parents that the first question for them was whether they intended to take Jon home from the hospital. Nonpl
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George Will -
5/2/2012 5:14 PM
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Going all the way with LBJ
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Around noon on Saturday, Nov. 23, 1963, almost exactly 24 hours after the assassination in Dallas, while the president’s casket lay in the East Room of the White House, Arthur Schlesinger, John Kennedy’s kept historian, convened a lunch at Washington’s Occidental restaurant with some other administration liberals. Their purpose was to discuss how t
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George Will -
4/27/2012 6:40 PM
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Going all the way with LBJ
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Around noon on Saturday, Nov. 23, 1963, almost exactly 24 hours after the assassination in Dallas, while the president’s casket lay in the East Room of the White House, Arthur Schlesinger, John Kennedy’s kept historian, convened a lunch at Washington’s Occidental restaurant with some other administration liberals. Their purpose was to discuss how t
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George Will -
4/27/2012 6:40 PM
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Illinois is running out of time and money
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After trying to tax Illinois to governmental solvency and economic dynamism, Pat Quinn, a Democrat who has been governor since 2009, now says “our rendezvous with reality has arrived.” Actually, Illinois is still reality-averse, so Americans may soon learn the importance of the freedom to fail in a system of competitive federalism.
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George Will -
4/25/2012 6:55 PM
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Illinois is running out of time and money
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After trying to tax Illinois to governmental solvency and economic dynamism, Pat Quinn, a Democrat who has been governor since 2009, now says “our rendezvous with reality has arrived.” Actually, Illinois is still reality-averse, so Americans may soon learn the importance of the freedom to fail in a system of competitive federalism.
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George Will -
4/25/2012 6:55 PM
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Cruel and unusual — a test case
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In the summer of 1787, just 94 years after the Salem witch trials, as paragons of the Enlightenment such as James Madison, George Washington and Benjamin Franklin deliberated in the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, a mob pelted and otherwise tormented to death a woman accused of being a witch. Prosecution of alleged witches, writes histor
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George Will -
4/20/2012 6:18 PM
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Cruel and unusual — a test case
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In the summer of 1787, just 94 years after the Salem witch trials, as paragons of the Enlightenment such as James Madison, George Washington and Benjamin Franklin deliberated in the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, a mob pelted and otherwise tormented to death a woman accused of being a witch. Prosecution of alleged witches, writes histor
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George Will -
4/20/2012 6:18 PM
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