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TODAY'S CONSERVATIVE, REPUBLICAN, POLITICAL OPINION

TODAY'S CONSERVATIVE, REPUBLICAN, POLITICAL OPINION

Wed Nov 4, 2009
By Thomas Sowell
When it comes to medical care, there seems to be remarkably little attention paid to questions of both quantity and quality, in the rush to "bring down the cost of medical care." More
Michael Medved : Six Election Day Lessons
Dave Ramsey : Ask Dave: Using the Emergency Fund
Ann Coulter : Election 2009: Change I Can Believe In!
Ben Shapiro : Why Markets Fail
Michael Gerson : Funding Health Care on the Backs of the Young
Dick Morris and Eileen McGann : The Health Care Disaster in Canada
John Stossel : The Double Standard About Journalists' Bias
Brent Bozell : The Dede Media
Michelle Malkin : Who Are You Calling "Extremist"?
Jacob Sullum : Obama's Hidden Fees
George Will : Out Stranger in Kabul
Janice Shaw Crouse : Women and Obamacare
Austin Bay : Cracking the Berlin Wall
Walter E. Williams : Economic Myths and Irrelevancy
Michael Medved : Don't Sneer at GOP Victories
Terry Jeffrey : The Last Unsubsidized American
Larry Kudlow : The Economics of a Three-Race GOP Sweep
Paul Greenberg : A Growing Sense of Unease
Rebecca Hagelin : Violence Against Women and Girls Explodes on Television
Bill Murchison : Can Washington Make You Buy Health Insurance?
Debra J. Saunders : Levi Johnston Stripped Bare
Chris Field : Exclusive: Glenn Beck Talks To Townhall Magazine
Today's Editorial and Political Cartoons and Funnies
* Wayne Stayskal - Sunday, December 27, 2009
* Glenn McCoy - Saturday, December 26, 2009
* Lisa Benson - Tuesday, December 29, 2009
* Larry Wright - Thursday, December 24, 2009
* Eric Allie - Friday, May 6, 2022
* Glenn Foden - Tuesday, December 29, 2009
* Scott Stantis - Tuesday, December 22, 2009
* Nate Beeler - Tuesday, December 29, 2009
* Gary Varvel - Monday, December 28, 2009

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11/3/2009 Ditherer-in-Chief
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10/9/2009 Nobel's Stockholm Syndrome
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11/3/2009 The American Way of Abandonment
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11/1/2009 A Big, Fat Political Mistake
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11/3/2009 Health Care Overhaul IV: This Time, It's Personal
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11/1/2009 Population Control in an Aging Society
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11/4/2009 Election 2009: Change I Can Believe In!
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2/12/2009 The Two Faces Of Darwin
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5/21/2008 Setting A Conservative Agenda
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11/4/2009 The Health Care Disaster in Canada
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10/29/2009 When Sports-Lefties Go Political
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11/3/2009 Curbing a Constitutional Crisis
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9/18/2009 'Reset' Translates as 'Capitulation'
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10/19/2009 Enemies List
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5/15/2009 Excusing Evil
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9/8/2009 Gay Marriage Rage
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8/4/2008 Out In Hollywood
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11/4/2009 Funding Health Care on the Backs of the Young
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10/31/2009 I Hope Jesus Thinks Larry David is Funny
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10/29/2009 Rendezvous Time
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10/30/2009 Masterfleece Theater
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10/29/2009 Candidates Around the Country Watching Obamacare Fight Closely
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2/3/2009 Honoring Lincoln
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11/3/2009 The Economics of a Three-Race GOP Sweep
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9/29/2009 Obamacare Pushing Voters to GOP
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10/30/2009 Heroes Return
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11/20/2008 "Pray for Me"
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10/29/2009 Candidate of the Future
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11/3/2009 Levi Johnston Stripped Bare
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11/3/2009 Obama Makes Polygamy a 21st-Century Issue
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6/10/2009 Price: Healthcare Reform Must Be Patient-Centered
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11/4/2009 Obama's Hidden Fees
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