Ringing in a conservative year - The Washington Post

Ringing in a conservative year - The Washington Post: "By George F. Will, Published: December 30

Although they have become prone to apocalyptic forebodings about the fragility of the nation’s institutions and traditions under the current president, conservatives should stride confidently into 2012. This is not because they are certain, or even likely, to defeat President Obama this year. Rather, it is because, if they emancipate themselves from their unconservative fixation on the presidency, they will see events unfolding in their favor. And when Congress is controlled by one party, as it might be a year from now, it can stymie an overreaching executive.

In 2011, for the first time in 62 years, America was a net exporter of petroleum products. For the indefinite future, a specter is haunting progressivism, the specter of abundance. Because progressivism exists to justify a few people bossing around most people and because progressives believe that only government’s energy should flow unimpeded, they crave energy scarcities as an excuse for rationing — by them — that produces ever-more-minute government supervision of Americans’ behavior." ... http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/ringing-in-a-conservative-year/2011/12/30/gIQAGWZNRP_story.html?tid=pm_opinions_pop

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Europe's Lack Of Discipline by George Will

Europe's Lack Of Discipline by George Will Sunday, May 16, 2010

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WASHINGTON -- When Chancellor Angela Merkel decided that Germany would pay part of Greece's bills, voters punished her party in elections in Germany's most populous state, North Rhine-Westphalia. How appropriate.

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Greece represents a perverse aspiration -- a society with (in the words of Wisconsin Republican Rep. Paul Ryan) "more takers than makers," more people taking benefits from government than there are people making goods and services that produce the social surplus that funds government. By socializing the consequences of Greece's misgovernment, Europe has become the world's leading producer of a toxic product -- moral hazard. The dishonesty and indiscipline of a nation with 2.6 percent of the eurozone's economic product have moved nations with the other 97.4 percent -- and the United States and the International Monetary Fund -- to say, essentially: The consequences of such vices cannot be quarantined, so we are all hostages to one another and hence no nation will be allowed to sink beneath the weight of its recklessness.

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PolitiFact: Our first parental advisory on a Truth-O-Meter item

We don't expect there are too many kids reading PolitiFact, but just in case, we put a parental advisory on an item we published about Rush Limbaugh. Rush earned a Pants on Fire.

We've also got lots of new items, including:

• Howard Dean was wrong that Medicare and Social Security were passed without any Republican votes. We also used another statement by Dean to explore the truth about "rationing" in health care. The truth is that there is rationing under our current health care system and there would also be rationing under the reform plan.
  
• George Will had a perfect record of True ratings until he twisted the details of stimulus spending and earned a Barely True.
• Michael Steele was ridiculously wrong with his claim that a VA brochure encourages suicide. Steele earns a Pants on Fire.
  

Thanks for all the entries for PolitiFact goodies. We'll be sending T-shirts and mousepads and ashtrays to the winners next week.

We're also starting a new giveaway for people who suggest facts we should check. If we end up checking a fact you suggest (send them to truthometer@politifact.com), we'll send you a T-shirt. So keep the suggestions coming.

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Do We Need the Big Three? by George Will Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Do We Need the Big Three? by George Will Tuesday, November 18, 2008

WASHINGTON -- "Nothing," said a General Motors spokesman last week, "has changed relative to the GM board's support for the GM management team during this historically difficult economic period for the U.S. auto industry." Nothing? Not even the evaporation of almost all shareholder value?

GM's statement comes as the mendicant company is threatening to collapse and make a mess unless Washington, which has already voted $25 billion for GM, Ford and Chrysler, provides up to $50 billion more -- the last subsidy until the next one.

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The answer? Do nothing that will delay bankrupt companies from filing for bankruptcy protection, so that improvident labor contracts can be unraveled, allowing the companies to try to devise plausible business models. Instead, advocates of a "rescue" propose extending to Detroit the government's business model for the nation -- redistributing wealth from the successful to the failed, an implausible formula for prosperity.

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Those Democrats, their rhetoric notwithstanding, really care most about the union. "Saving the planet" comes second and last comes the health of the auto companies.

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Read the entire column here: Do We Need the Big Three? by George Will

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20071230 The Most Interesting Presidential Candidate by George Will

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The Most Interesting Presidential Candidate

By George Will Sunday, December 30, 2007

WASHINGTON -- America's foremost black intellectual has published a slender book about the most interesting presidential candidacy since 1980. Shelby Steele's characteristically subtle argument is ultimately unconvincing because he fundamentally misreads Barack Obama. Nevertheless, so fecund is Steele's mind, he illuminates the racial landscape that Obama might transform.

Ronald Reagan's 1980 candidacy fascinated because, as a conviction politician, he sharpened partisanships as a prelude to implementing discontinuities in domestic and foreign policies. Obama's candidacy fascinates because he represents radical autonomy: He has chosen his racial identity, but chosen not to make it matter much.

In "A Bound Man: Why We Are Excited About Obama and Why He Can't Win," Steele, of Stanford's Hoover Institution, argues that Obama "embodies" -- an apposite word -- the idea that race can be "a negligible human difference." His candidacy asks America to complete its maturation as a society free from all "collective chauvinisms" about race. And his flair for the presentational side of politics makes him, Steele concludes, immune to affirmative action's stigma -- the suspicion that he is a mediocrity lifted up by lowered standards.

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Read the entire George Will column here: The Most Interesting Presidential Candidate

George F. Will, a 1976 Pulitzer Prize winner whose columns are syndicated in more than 400 magazines and newspapers worldwide, is the author of Men at Work: The Craft of Baseball.

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Political Profile: Barack Obama

Defending His Faith

Obama Aims to Connect With Rural Iowa

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