From Newsweek: High Speed to Insolvency Why liberals love trains. By George Will Generations hence, when the river of time has worn this presidency’s importance to a small, smooth pebble in the stream of history, people will still marvel that its defining trait was a mania for high-speed rail projects. This disorder illuminates the progressive [...]
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From the Washington Post: By George F. Will Hitherto, when this university town and seat of state government applauded itself as “the Athens of the Midwest,” the sobriquet suggested kinship with the cultural glories of ancient Greece. Now, however, Madison resembles contemporary Athens. This capital has been convulsed by government employees sowing disorder in order [...]
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A great article from the brilliant George Will on the two models of government the United States must chose between: The danger of a government with unlimited power By George F. Will Thursday, June 3, 2010; A17 Today, as it has been for a century, American politics is an argument between two Princetonians — James [...]
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From Hot Air: Humans are too stupid to prevent climate change from radically impacting on our lives over the coming decades. This is the stark conclusion of James Lovelock, the globally respected environmental thinker and independent scientist who developed the Gaia theory. It follows a tumultuous few months in which public opinion on efforts to [...]
Tags: George Will, Global Warming, Health Care Reform, Obamacare
George Will represented common sense as usual in the latest edition of ABC’s This Week. In the debate, Will essentially reenacted Tyson vs. Spinks in his back-and-forth with former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich. Reich trotted out the old canard that medical insurance companies are making “huge profits.” However, the facts tell a different story. [...]
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George Will’s latest is a must read. Will goes over how there are no men anymore – just overgrown boys. This is a systemic cultural problem that a generation of liberalism has wrought. The Basement Boys The making of modern immaturity. By George F. Will | NEWSWEEK Published Mar 8, 2010 From the magazine issue dated [...]
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