▼ Author Community Vote yesterday George F. Will As a progressive, Obama hews to the Wilsonian tradition - — There are legislative miles to go before the government will be emancipated from its health-care myopia, but it is not too soon for a summing-up. Whether all or nothing of the legislation becomes law, Barack Obama has refuted critics who call him a radical. 5 days ago George F. Will How the Constitution, filtered by the high court, affects guns - — It is said, more frequently than precisely, that the reasons the Supreme Court gives for doing whatever it does are as important as what it does. Actually, the court's reasons are what it does. 15 days ago George F. Will For liberals, the filibuster is now the enemy - — Today's health policy “summit” comes at a moment when, as happens with metronomic regularity, Washington is reverberating with lamentations about government being “broken.” Such talk occurs only when the left's agenda is stalled. 22 days ago George F. Will Sarah Palin and the mutual loathing society - — The Republican presidential nominee, an Arizona senator, was a maverick, which was part of his charm. He spoke and acted impulsively, which was part of his problem. Voters thought his entertaining dimensions might be incompatible with presidential responsibilities. 42 days ago George F. Will The State of the Union address reveals a president of two minds - — Barack Obama tiptoed Wednesday night along the seam that bifurcates the Democratic Party's brain. The seam separates that brain's John Quincy Adams lobe from its Sigmund Freud lobe. — The dominant liberal lobe favors Adams's dictum … 57 days ago George F. Will That rock in the health-care road? It's called the Constitution. - — Although Democrats think their health-care legislation faces smooth sailing to implementation, there is a rock dead ahead — a constitutional challenge to the legislation's core. Democrats who assume it is constitutional … 61 days ago George F. Will Fiscal liberalism has tarnished California gold - — Dalton Trumbo (1905-76) was a hero to the American left, partly because of his 1939 antiwar novel “Johnny Got His Gun.” Trumbo's title modified the lyric “Johnny, get your gun” from the World War I song “Over There.” Trumbo's “Johnny” is horribly maimed in that war. 90 days ago George F. Will This will not end well - Atraveler asks a farmer how to get to a particular village. - — Atraveler asks a farmer how to get to a particular village. The farmer replies, “If I were you, I wouldn't start from here.” Barack Obama, who asked to be president, nevertheless deserves sympathy for having to start where America is in Afghanistan. 148 days ago George F. Will The Obamas' Ego Trip to Copenhagen - — In the Niagara of words spoken and written about the Obamas' trip to Copenhagen, too few have been devoted to the words they spoke there. Their separate speeches to the International Olympic Committee were so dreadful, and in such a characteristic way … 153 days ago George F. Will For Alarmists, Ugly Truths on Global Warming - — Plateau in Temperatures Adds Difficulty to Task Of Reaching a Solution — In this headline on a New York Times story about the difficulties confronting people alarmed about global warming, note the word “plateau.”

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