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GEORGE WILL:: Obama’s tapped-out trust – WaPo
By MB Snow at May 17, 2013 | 5:05 pm
By George F. Will, Published: May 16 -- 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. And, entertainingly, the ... Go To Article
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GEORGE F. WILL: IRS scandal carries echoes of Watergate – WaPo
By MB Snow at May 14, 2013 | 6:37 am
By George F. Will, Monday, May 13, 2013 “He has, acting personally and through his subordinates and agents, endeavored to . . . cause, in violation of the constitutional rights of citizens, income tax audits or other income tax investigations to be initiated or conducted in a discriminatory manner.” — Article II, Section 1, Articles of Impeachment against ... Go To Article
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VIDEO:: GEORGE WILL on IRS: ‘How stupid do they think we are?’ – The Daily Caller
By MB Snow at May 13, 2013 | 9:07 am
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GEORGE F. WILL: Obama’s false hopes for the 2014 election – WaPo
By MB Snow at May 9, 2013 | 7:26 am
By George F. Will, Published: May 8 Thirty-one months ago Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell affronted the media and other custodians of propriety by saying something common-sensical. On Oct. 23, 2010, he said: “The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.” He meant that America needed conservative ... Go To Article
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GEORGE WILL:: ‘Korematsu’ and the dangers of waiving constitutional rights – WaPo
By MB Snow at April 25, 2013 | 2:42 pm
By George F. Will, Published: April 24 -- Two of the three most infamous Supreme Court decisions were erased by events. The Civil War and postwar constitutional amendments effectively overturned Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857), which held that blacks could never have rights that whites must respect. Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), which upheld legally enforced segregation, ... Go To Article
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GEORGE WILL: Justin Amash, one to watch from Michigan – WaPo
By MB Snow at April 21, 2013 | 12:15 am
By George F. Will, Published: April 19 America’s most interesting development since November is the Republican Party becoming more interesting. Consider the congressman from Grand Rapids, Mich., who occupies the seat once held by Gerald Ford, embodiment of vanilla Republicanism. Justin Amash, 33, may seek the Senate seat being vacated by six-term Democrat Carl ... Go To Article
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GEORGE WILL:: What’s behind the funding of the welfare state – WaPo
By MB Snow at April 18, 2013 | 9:58 am
By George F. Will, Published: April 17 -- The regulatory, administrative state, which progressives champion, is generally a servant of the strong, for two reasons. It responds to financially powerful and politically sophisticated factions. And it encourages rent-seekers to exploit opportunities for concentrated benefits and dispersed costs (e.g., agriculture subsidies ... Go To Article
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GEORGE WILL:: The RNC’s ‘reforms’ muddle the campaign process – WaPo
By MB Snow at March 24, 2013 | 12:50 am
By George F. Will, Published: March 22 -- Because of the grotesquely swollen place the presidency now occupies in the nation’s governance and consciousness, we are never not preoccupied with presidential campaigning. The Constitution’s Framers would be appalled. The nation reveres the Framers but long ago abandoned the presidential selection process they ... Go To Article
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GEORGE WILL:: DOMA infringes on states’ rights – WaPo
By MB Snow at March 21, 2013 | 12:37 pm
By George F. Will, Published: March 20 -- “[U]nder the Constitution, the regulation and control of marital and family relationships are reserved to the States.” — U.S. Supreme Court, Sherrer v. Sherrer (1948) The Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) is an exception to the rule that a law’s title is as uninformative about the law’s purpose as the titles of ... Go To Article
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GEORGE WILL:: The shaky science behind same-sex marriage – WaPo
By MB Snow at March 18, 2013 | 12:45 am
By George F. Will, Published: March 15 When on March 26 the Supreme Court hears oral arguments about whether California’s ban on same-sex marriages violates the constitutional right to “equal protection of the laws,” these arguments will invoke the intersection of law and social science. The court should tread cautiously, if at all, on this dark and bloody ... Go To Article
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