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ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Wed, 16 Dec 2009 05:01:00 GMT Wed, 16 Dec 2009 05:01:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ WASHINGTON -- It is symbolic of the Senate's health care bill that the section titled "No lifetime or annual limits" would allow insurance companies to impose annual dollar limits on medical care -- meaning that pat http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelGerson/2009/12/16/surgery_by_moonlight fb7f62f8-97eb-4308-b05a-135ffba2a304 Wed, 16 Dec 2009 05:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- An e-mail from my conscience: Reviewing your assorted botches during the past year, consider this one. In May, you mocked: "It is possible that climate change skeptics -- the dominant Republ http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelGerson/2009/12/11/the_scientific_war_on_science 4dd43eae-17fe-45d9-a451-7c5bfb446fe0 Fri, 11 Dec 2009 05:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- If it weren't for bad luck, Mike Huckabee would have no luck at all. Of all the deranged criminals in the country, Maurice Clemmons -- granted clemency by then-Gov. Huckabee of Arkansas almost a decade http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelGerson/2009/12/09/huckabees_tragic,_reasonable_choice 60a9823c-1b93-4978-9176-93c7a467d347 Wed, 09 Dec 2009 05:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- President Obama's decision on Afghanistan was tardy, messy -- and courageous. In contrast to the expectation that he would settle on a timid half-measure, Obama took more of a... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelGerson/2009/12/04/rally_around_the_flag_-_and_the_president 405bbe72-9e80-4724-9caf-60d9dd02868d Fri, 04 Dec 2009 05:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- With a decision on Afghanistan, we will now see if a reluctant president can persuade a reluctant Congress and inspire a reluctant nation to accept additional wartime sacrifice. But the administration http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelGerson/2009/12/02/fatigues_under_the_mullahs_robes bc1113bb-243b-4510-b0e1-b6f10bfbd7b8 Wed, 02 Dec 2009 05:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- Like the nearby Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, the Newseum -- Washington's museum dedicated to journalism -- displays dinosaurs. On a long wall near the entrance, the front pages of newspa http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelGerson/2009/11/27/the_strange,_sad_death_of_journalism 23a98d91-25c9-459d-9719-2cc90057b648 Fri, 27 Nov 2009 05:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- As Americans count their blessings, it is useful to remember women who count their beatings -- in the once-fair country of Zimbabwe, cursed by Robert Mugabe. Magodonga Mahlangu and Jennifer Will http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelGerson/2009/11/25/refusing_to_live_in_the_stink 3ae89890-671c-4a3b-8e8c-39d3bbec9bdf Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- In the beginning, the Obama administration directed a spotlight toward its careful, thoughtful decision-making process on Afghanistan. National security meetings were announced, photographed... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelGerson/2009/11/20/obamas_dysfuntional_decision-making 6541f08c-03c5-4f1a-ba12-f104fd3ec8aa Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- Eric Holder -- distinguished prosecutor, judge, foe of public corruption, basketball enthusiast, mentor to disadvantaged youth -- seemed a reassuring choice for attorney general. When Holder affirmed d http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelGerson/2009/11/18/eric_holders_grave_mistake da2bfa6e-063b-4086-b8b7-9b636fc21bd9 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:01:00 GMT The genocide in Darfur is no longer a trendy, breathless global cause. But the women of Darfur haven't gotten the message. On May 15, a woman near the Al Hamadiya Camp in Zalingei was collecting firewood. Three... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelGerson/2009/11/13/darfurs_forgotten_ones 8e585569-0429-4bfc-aeab-c35995919345 Fri, 13 Nov 2009 05:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- The decision on President Obama's Afghanistan strategy -- expected during the next few weeks -- finally seems close. After a process attacked as dithering and praised as deliberative, all the serious o http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelGerson/2009/11/11/obama_needs_leadership_transfusion 721fe34c-3e48-4741-a20c-69005e2cc3b0 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 05:01:00 GMT WASHINGTON -- During long campaign swings in Virginia's recent gubernatorial campaign, Bob McDonnell's staff would count the cars that sported both Obama and McDonnell bumper stickers. These ideologically... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelGerson/2009/11/06/obama_cedes_the_center 5b30f0ef-4c13-4c22-a103-2669869cff56 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:01:00 GMT As I was talking recently with the founder of a large American corporation, the conversation turned (inevitably) to health care reform. His employees in their 20s, on average, cost the company about $1,500 a year in... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelGerson/2009/11/04/funding_health_care_on_the_backs_of_the_young e2f83124-7c7e-4123-8e58-f58b20f44885 Wed, 04 Nov 2009 05:01:00 GMT R. Creigh Deeds, the Democratic candidate for Virginia governor, seems poised to lose the jewel in President Obama's political crown. In November 2008, Obama was the first Democrat since Lyndon... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichaelGerson/2009/10/30/too_small_to_lead 62fa1905-875e-4ada-b8f4-12ba75f2d391 Fri, 30 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT