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• Jerusalem is a festival and a lamentation. Its song is a sigh across the ages, a delicate, robust, mournful psalm at the…
• Watching foreign affairs is sometimes like watching a magician; the eye is drawn to the hand performing the dramatic flourishes, leaving the…
• Obama has already rejected the bright sunlight of public knowledge, which is democracy's great disinfectant and cure.
• Workers on the edge of poverty are essential to America’s prosperity, but their well-being is not treated as an integral part of…
• Caricatures created by politics never fit comfortably into the Oval Office.
• Eisenhower was less deferential to the military than he seemed likely to be, Kennedy was not at all beholden to the pope,…
• Affairs of state tend to drive most presidents toward the center on both foreign and domestic policy, no matter where on the…
• Obama behaves like a centrist who leans tentatively left on certain social programs but boldly right on military force and civil liberties.
• Obama prefers to look forward, not back, as he has stated. So at least during his tenure, there will be no reliable…
• If you have never been tortured, or locked up and verbally threatened, you may find it hard to believe that anyone would…

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