Over the next decade, cities and states across America will be compelled to tighten their belts as the really big bills - the pension bills they cannot afford - come due. They'll have to go after existing contracts with current workers.
John PodhoretzRomney is right that the Obama vision is too centered on government. But his is too centered on the promotion of business and wealth creation at the expense of everything else.
John PodhoretzNewt Gingrich never received more than 100,000 votes in his life. He'll never be president.
John PodhoretzThe great mystery is why robots come off so well in science-fiction films when the human characters are often so astoundingly wooden.
John PodhoretzObama's coalition would have consigned him to the political margins as little as 12 years ago, but the nation's demographic changes are moving far more quickly than most Republicans anticipated.
John PodhoretzIt has never made any sense to argue that, unique among the people of the world, Arabs are more concerned on a day-to-day basis about the treatment of people they don't know than they are about how they're going to put food on their own tables, or whether their sons will ever find a job.
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