When the looter is the government
TEWKSBURY, Mass. Read more...
washingtonpost.com - George F. Will -- Washington Post Opinion Writer (washingtonpost.com), May 18, 7:33pm
Same-sex marriage: Empathy or right?
There are two ways to defend gay marriage. Argument A is empathy: One is influenced by gay friends in committed relationships yearning for the fulfillment and acceptance that marriage conveys upon heterosexuals. That’s essentially the case President Obama made when he first announced his change of views. Read more...
Charles Krauthammer: Most Recent Articles and Archives, May 17, 7:37pm
Too much agreement means more entitlements
Bipartisanship, the supposed scarcity of which so distresses the high-minded, actually is disastrously prevalent. Read more...
washingtonpost.com - George F. Will -- Washington Post Opinion Writer (washingtonpost.com), May 16, 7:23pm
The American dream in an automobile
“You have a Prius. . . . You probably compost, sort all your recycling, and have a reusable shopping bag for your short drive to Whole Foods. You are the best! So, do we really need the Obama sticker?” Read more...
washingtonpost.com - George F. Will -- Washington Post Opinion Writer (washingtonpost.com), May 11, 7:25pm
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washingtonpost.com - George F. Will -- Washington Post Opinion Writer (washingtonpost.com), May 11, 7:23pm
Some Caps fans will avert their eyes
Stanley, my friend from the gym, won’t watch Saturday’s Game 7 of the NHL’s Eastern Conference semifinal series between the Washington Capitals and New York Rangers. He’ll be in front of his television, but he’ll be reading a newspaper or magazine, avoiding the screen with the sound off, except to look up every seven minutes. “I just get too nervous,” he said. “My heart won’t take it.” Read more...
washingtonpost.com - George F. Will -- Washington Post Opinion Writer (washingtonpost.com), May 11, 7:23pm
Echoes of ‘67: Israel unites
In May 1967, in brazen violation of previous truce agreements, Egypt ordered U.N. peacekeepers out of the Sinai, marched 120,000 troops to the Israeli border, blockaded the Straits of Tiran (Israel’s southern outlet to the world’s oceans), abruptly signed a military pact with Jordan and, together with Syria, pledged war for the final destruction of Israel. Read more...
Charles Krauthammer: Most Recent Articles and Archives, May 10, 7:04pm
Taxing jobs out of existence
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. Read more...
washingtonpost.com - George F. Will -- Washington Post Opinion Writer (washingtonpost.com), May 9, 7:10pm
Taking a scythe to the Bill of Rights
Controversies can be wonderfully clarified when people follow the logic of illogical premises to perverse conclusions. For example, two academics recently wrote in the British Journal of Medical Ethics that “after-birth abortions” — killing newborn babies — are matters of moral indifference because newborns, like fetuses, “do not have the same moral status as actual persons” and “the fact that both are potential persons is morally irrelevant.” So killing them “should be permissible in all the cases where abortion is, including cases where the newborn is not disabled.” This helpfully validates the right-to-life contention that the pro-abortion argument, which already defends third-trimester abortions, contains no standard for why the killing should be stopped by arbitrarily assigning moral significance to the moment of birth. Read more...
washingtonpost.com - George F. Will -- Washington Post Opinion Writer (washingtonpost.com), May 4, 8:28pm
Divider in chief
“The pundits like to slice and dice our country into red states and blue states.” Read more...
Charles Krauthammer: Most Recent Articles and Archives, May 3, 8:04pm
Jon Will’s gift
When Jonathan Frederick Will was born 40 years ago — on May 4, 1972, his father’s 31st birthday — the life expectancy for people with Down syndrome was about 20 years. That is understandable. Read more...
washingtonpost.com - George F. Will -- Washington Post Opinion Writer (washingtonpost.com), May 2, 6:14pm