Charles Krauthammer – Page 24

Return of the real, soak-the-rich, class warrior Obama

May 23, 2019 at 3:49 p.m.

In a 2008 debate, former ABC News broadcaster Charlie Gibson asked Barack Obama about his support for raising capital gains taxes, given the historical record of government losing net revenue...

In America’s pantheon: King in word and stone

August 23, 2021 at 1:25 a.m.

WASHINGTON — It is one of the enduring mysteries of American history — so near-providential as to give the most hardened atheist pause — that it should have produced, at...

This is Obamaland: Bad luck, bad faith

August 23, 2021 at 1:20 a.m.

"We had reversed the recession, avoided a depression, got the economy moving again. ... But over the last six months, we've had a run of bad luck." President Barack Obama,...

This is Obamaland: Bad luck, bad faith

May 23, 2019 at 3:48 p.m.

"We had reversed the recession, avoided a depression, got the economy moving again. ... But over the last six months, we've had a run of bad luck." President Barack Obama,...

System works despite Democrats’ complaints

August 23, 2021 at 1:18 a.m.

WASHINGTON — Of all the endlessly repeated conventional wisdom in today's Washington, the most lazy, stupid and ubiquitous is that our politics is broken. On the contrary. Our political system...

Grand fix for the supercommittee

August 23, 2021 at 1:11 a.m.

WASHINGTON — Conventional wisdom holds that the congressional supercommittee established by the debt-ceiling deal to propose further deficit reduction will go nowhere. I'm not so sure. There is a grand...

Big push for the Half-Trillion plan

August 23, 2021 at 1:05 a.m.

WASHINGTON — The debt ceiling looms. Confusion reigns. Schemes abound. We are deep in a hole with, as of now, only three ways out: the (Sen. Mitch) McConnell plan, the...

Who takes us to war?

August 23, 2021 at 12:49 a.m.

WASHINGTON — Is the Libya war legal? Under the 1973 War Powers Resolution, it is not. President Barack Obama has exceeded the 90-day period to receive retroactive authorization from Congress....

Union owned and operated

August 23, 2021 at 12:46 a.m.

WASHINGTON — "Shovel-ready was not as shovel-ready as we expected," observed President Barack Obama last week, enjoying a nice chuckle about the unhappy fate of his near-$1 trillion stimulus. To...

Is it stewardship? Or is it ideology?

August 23, 2021 at 12:43 a.m.

The Republicans swept November's midterm election by making it highly ideological, a referendum on two years of hyperliberalism — of arrogant, overreaching, intrusive government drowning in debt and running deficits...

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