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GERSON: Giving up on America's children
WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration is increasingly known not for its legislative achievements but for its federal waivers to legislative achievements.
GERSON: Romney's strategic failure on immigration
Romney's whole post-primary approach to immigration has been careful and reasonable. — but politically, a strategic failure.
GERSON: Emergence of a great nation
Over the last few decades, the obituaries of World War I veterans have come, according to historian Martin Gilbert, like “like a muffled drum.” With the recent passing of Frank Buckles — the last doughboy — Pershing’s army has finally retired from the field. The drum is stilled and put away.
GERSON: Reform answer to Obama's problems - and the nation's
The main achievements of the lame-duck session of Congress were reminders of what might have been. President Obama gave something to get something. To secure a second stimulus, he accepted Republican economic methods. To pass the New START treaty, Obama offered assurances to Republican senators on nuclear modernization and missile defense. Contrast this with health-care reform, imposed in party-line maneuvers that left an aftertaste of ideological radicalism.
GERSON: Dems show true colors in reform push
The final outcome of the health-care-reform debate is uncertain -- who can predict where a writhing eel will land? -- but we have learned a few things already.
Obama's fix doesn't match the problem
Editor's note: David Broder is on vacation. His column will resume Sunday.
Diplomacy doesn't always work
Editor's note: Kathleen Parker is on vacation. Her column will resume Dec. 31.
Compassion is always needed in conservatism
Editor's Note: David Broder is on vacation. His column will resume next week.
Cindy McCain no stranger to foreign aid
KIGALI, Rwanda - Cindy McCain's first visit to this country, in 1994, was during the high season of roadblocks and machetes and shallow graves.
Another oil threatens the Arctic Circle
IN THE ARCTIC CIRCLE - North of Oslo, north of Longyearbyen, almost as north as North itself, the National Geographic Endeavor breaks pack ice in endless daylight through a gray-teal sea. The expedition has been cruising near Svalbard, a group of high arctic islands larger than Denmark - in summer, a land of brown mountains streaked with snow-filled gullies, low clouds that blur distinctions of sky and land, and wide glaciers reaching the ocean in gashes of bright sky blue.
