Nancy Pelosi infamously said that we had to pass Obamacare to find out what’s in it. The then-House speaker erroneously assumed, evidently, that people would be able to get onto the government-run exchanges created by the law. So far the law’s implementation has been as ugly as its passage. The rollout of Obamacare has been […]
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M. Moize: History of being unreasonable
This is in response to Rich Lowry’s column (Oct. 7). There is more than enough blame to go around for Congress’ amazing ineptitude. However, Lowry missed the more important issue. More important than shutdown is a default of national debt, which Republicans seem happy to cause unless Democrats succumb to Republicans’ demand to defund Obamacare. […]
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Rich Lowry: Democrats share blame for shutdown
Refusing to negotiate is the new reasonableness. After years of agonized media commentary about the failure of key players in Washington to sit down and work out their differences, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid plans to win the fight over the government shutdown by rejecting all compromise, calling his opponents names and escaping blame in […]
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Rich Lowry: Trust Obama to not call a war, a war
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi shared with reporters the other day her conversation with her 5-year-old grandson. She recounted how he asked her whether she supported “war” in Syria. Before telling the rest of the story, she paused to note the precocious tyke’s overly aggressive language. “Now, he’s 5 years old … and he’s saying […]
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N. Willard: Still much to be done
I was appalled by Rich Lowry’s column, “Civil-rights movement in disgrace” (Sept. 2). According to him, all the problems of being black in America are solved; blacks now exist on imagined slights, etc. By contrast, Leonard Pitts Jr., a black man, in his column Sept. 1 titled “Where do we go from here? We go […]
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Rich Lowry: Civil-rights movement is an intellectually exhausted disgrace
Every mass movement in America, the philosopher Eric Hoffer once wrote, becomes a racket in the end. And he hadn’t even witnessed the full course of the civil-rights movement. If the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington is a time for taking stock, the score is clear. The Dream was a glorious triumph, changing […]
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Rich Lowry: Ted Cruz the latest target of liberals
Henry Adams said that politics is the systematic organization of hatreds. For the left in the past year, it has seemed at times to be the systematic organization of hatred of Ted Cruz. The freshman senator is not the first Texan to be so honored. In fact, the state isn’t holding up its end if, […]
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Rich Lowry: A tale of two men who couldn’t be more different
New York Yankee third baseman Alex Rodriguez may be the most hated figure in sports, but he is a man for our time. He is a master at the insincere mea culpa, at self-involvement, at pretense and greed. Not just greed for money, but for fame and glory. If he had only disgraced himself playing […]
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Rich Lowry: Author offers eloquent message about elephants
There’s a charming myth that the 18th-century poet Alexander Pope said, “The proper study of mankind is man, but when one regards the elephant, one wonders.” One wonders particularly after reading an extraordinary essay by Caitrin Nicol in the journal The New Atlantis. She makes a powerful case for the moral status of elephants, a […]
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Rich Lowry: Homeland Security nominee successful in NYC
President Barack Obama shouldn’t nominate Ray Kelly to be secretary of homeland security. He should invite him to consider the error of his ways. At least that’s the logic of the president’s remarks on the George Zimmerman case. The president has had kind words for Kelly, but the president’s supporters point out the contradiction: In […]