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Gene Healy: 'Impeachment' is not a four-letter word
Gene Healy
Published: Mon, May 20, 2013
You may be appalled about IRS inquisitions for Tea Party groups and dragnet subpoenas for investigative reporters, but what's really outrageous, according to some commentators, is that a couple of Republicans recently dared to use the "I-word" -- "impeachment."
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Gene Healy: Nothing to joke about in a partisan IRS
Gene Healy
Published: Mon, May 13, 2013
President Obama has a sharp comedic delivery for a politician, but sometimes you wish he'd joke a little less about abuses of federal power. He, er, slayed them in the aisles at the 2010 White House Correspondents' Dinner, warning the Jonas Brothers to steer clear of his daughters: "Two words...
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Gene Healy: Obama's 'War on Cynicism'
Gene Healy
Published: Mon, May 6, 2013
There's a specter haunting America's youth, President Obama warned in his commencement address to Ohio State University graduates Sunday -- the specter of "cynicism." In Obama's account, sinister (but unnamed) "voices" have been busily corrupting the once-idealistic Generation Y with a siren...
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Gene Healy: Brothers Tsarnaev are 'losers,' not 'enemy combatants'
Gene Healy
Published: Mon, Apr 22, 2013
From the Twittersphere to CNN, last week's frenzied theorizing about the Boston Marathon bombing was an object lesson in the dangers of premature speculation. But there's one assessment of Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev for which we already have enough information. That's the one given by...
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Gene Healy: Shame on us if Newtown panic leads to unwise gun laws
Gene Healy
Published: Mon, Apr 1, 2013
On Thursday, flanked by mothers of shooting victims, President Obama sought to evoke the terror and revulsion Americans felt in the aftershock of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings. "We need everybody to remember how we felt a hundred days ago," he said when images of the carnage --...
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Gene Healy: A bad week for drone lovers
Gene Healy
Published: Mon, Mar 25, 2013
The Washington Post's Chris Cillizza gave his most recent "Worst Week in Washington Award" to Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., whose assault weapons ban got stripped from a Democratic gun control package last Tuesday for lack of support. Fair enough, but if nonhumanoids can be eligible for the...
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Gene Healy: The Iraq War's unhappy anniversary
Gene Healy
Published: Mon, Mar 18, 2013
At about 9:30 p.m. on March 19, 2003, the shooting phase of Operation Iraqi Freedom began, with an unsuccessful "decapitation strike" aimed at top Iraqi leadership, including Saddam Hussein. Shortly thereafter, President George W. Bush told the American people in a nationally televised address...
