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Will France elect its own Barack Obama?

The French are too intellectually vain to borrow others’ political ideas but too interested in style not to appreciate and appropriate that of others. So, on May 7 they might confer their presidency on a Gallic Barack Obama.In 2008, Obama, a freshman senator, became a national Rorschach test, ...

More minors being used for sex

PHOENIX -- Three months ago, State Trooper Jonathan Otto, 33, of the Arizona Department of Public Safety pulled over a car that had caught his attention by traveling 104 miles per hour long after midnight, just south of Kingman. He smelled marijuana in the car. It was driven by a man with an ...

House Freedom Caucus praised

WASHINGTON -- With a mellifluous name suggesting bucolic tranquility, Rep. Mark Meadows, a North Carolina Republican, is an unlikely object of the caterwauling recently directed at him and the House Freedom Caucus he leads.The vituperation was occasioned by the HFCĢƵ role rescuing Republicans ...

Expertise is a plague in today’s world

Impulse control is unfashionable as well as unpresidential, but perhaps you should resist the urge to trip people who stride briskly down the sidewalk fixated on their phone screens, absorbed in texting and feeling entitled to expect others to make way. New technologies are shaping behaviors ...

Let’s bring filibusters back

The SenateĢƵ coming con?rmation of Neil Gorsuch will improve the Supreme Court, and Democrats’ incontinent opposition to him will inadvertently improve the Senate — if Republicans are provoked to thoroughly reform the ?libuster. If eight Democrats will not join the 52 Republicans in ...

Obamacare won’t be going away

“Mend it, don’t end it” was President Bill ClintonĢƵ rhetorical straddle regarding affirmative action. Republican efforts to “repeal and replace” the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) look increasingly like “mend it, don’t end it.”The problem is not that, as is frequently said, ...