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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 - Monday, December 28, 2009
* Glenn McCoy - Tuesday, December 29, 2009
* Lisa Benson - Wednesday, December 30, 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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