Gambling with the U.S. dollar Nov 13, 2009
By GEORGE F. WILL First published in print: Friday, November 13, 2009. One of the many television commercials exhorting viewers to buy gold says solemnly that it is an asset whose value "has never dropped to zero," a boast that surely sets a record for minimalism. (Albany Times Union)
Disclosure as liberal coercian Nov 1, 2009
George F. Will is a 1976 Pulitzer Prize winner whose columns are syndicated in more than 400 magazines and newspapers worldwide. TOWNHALL DAILY: Be the first to read George Will's column. (Townhall.com)
California's folly - Prop. 13 Nov 1, 2009
Even George F. Will, the usually cautious Washington Post columnist, declared, "The East Coast, landfall for immigrants of all sorts, once was the laboratory of American politics. Today California, land's end for migrants of all sorts, is the laboratory.". Birthplace of the "less is more" philosophy, the Golden State had become both the cultural fad-fashioner of the nation and a dominant political force. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Opinion)
Botswana: Zebras Could Have Done Better! [editorial] Oct 31, 2009
- George F. Will (1941 - ). Be the first to. (allAfrica.com)
Legalized Marijuana? We May Already Be on the WayGeorge Will says process of pot legalization "probably" already happening. Oct 26, 2009
With the Obama administration's decision not to prosecute medicinal marijuana dealers and users, even though they violate federal law, the country is "probably in the process now of legalizing marijuana," conservative columnist George F. Will said today. John Podesta on taxing marijuana to pay for health care. (ABC News)
Scaling Back Justice? Oct 19, 2009
Hindsight can refute and/or validate George F. Will's remarks (below), but note the insight of the remainder. "George F. Will, the perceptive Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist, noted just one example in the difference between the old liberalism and a new liberalism: "The old liberalism delivered material advantages that were intended to enable people to live the lives they had chosen ... George F. Will-- unrepentent neocon whack job. (CBS News)
Will: Senate races next year give GOP a shot at cutting Dems' power Oct 15, 2009
George F. Will writes for the Washington Post. About Comments. (Sacramento Bee -- Opinion)
COLUMN: Thoughts, fears on our soon-to-be longest war Oct 11, 2009
George F. Will compared today s Washington debate on Afghanistan to a similar one on the rush of troop commitments to Vietnam in 1966. Some asked then if Vietnam was worth a full-bore war on the chessboard of the Cold War, and they weren t just shaggy, draft-card burners, either. (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
Olympic gold for narcissism Oct 8, 2009
In the Niagara of words spoken and written about the Obamas' trip to Copenhagen, too few have been devoted to the words they spoke there. Their separate speeches to the International Olympic Committee were so dreadful, and in such a characteristic way, that they might be symptomatic of something that has serious implications for American governance. (Casper Star-Tribune, WY)
Letters to the Editor Oct 5, 2009
In a world where many still erroneously think there is scientific evidence refuting evolution and where George F. Will (who is not, as far as I know, professionally trained in climate science) is still writing columns stating that scientific claims about global warming are a bunch of hype, it is vital that articles about scientific topics be written and edited very carefully so as not to contribute to our society's already high level of scientific illiteracy and confusion. Erica Wagner,... (Sacramento Bee -- Opinion)
Been There, Didn't Do That Sep 20, 2009
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In It To Win It In Afghanistan? Sep 4, 2009
The latest to call on President Obama to retreat is the influential conservative George F. Will. In a widely read column last week (a corollary of which appears on the next page), he insisted. (Investors Business Daily)
George Will: TAC Is Right Sep 4, 2009
Will caused a kerfluffle with his. He's been critical of the Iraq War for some time; here he forthrightly lays out the logic for bringing the troops home before 2011. (The American Conservative)
Washington's Afghan clock ticks down Sep 3, 2009
Asia Times Online :: South Asia news, business and economy from India and Pakistan. Washington's Afghan clock ticking By Daniel Luban. (Asia Times Online)
LETTER: Conservatives lie about health care reform Sep 3, 2009
As early as last October, conservative New York Times columnist David Brooks called Palin "a fatal cancer on the Republican Party," and George F. Will, a voice of the Republican establishment, dismissed the former Alaska governor as "an inveterate simplifier." Huffington post. Oh my, it looks like some members of the GOP see Palin for what she really is. (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
On the legacy of Ted Kennedy Aug 27, 2009
- George F. Will, Washington Post Writers Group. Fate toyed with Teddy Kennedy. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Opinion)
George F. Will: Ted Kennedy embodied the patience of politics Aug 27, 2009
George F. Will: Ted Kennedy embodied the patience of politics. By George F. Will Published: Thursday, Aug. 27, 2009 - 12:00 am | Page 19A. (Sacramento Bee -- Opinion)
Eunice Kennedy Shriver, trailblazerwho improved lives of disabled, dies Aug 12, 2009
Nine years later, political columnist George F. Will weighed in with his own observations. Mrs. Shriver is one of those ladies with whims of iron, and the Special Olympics is no mere whim. (Boston Globe)
Newsweek: Why we should stop overtaxing the rich Jul 21, 2009
It will make the investor class anemic. Published Jul18, 2009 From the magazine issue dated Jul 27, 2009. (MSNBC -- Business)
HEALTH CARE IN A TERRIBLE 'FIX' Jun 29, 2009
HEALTH CARE IN A TERRIBLE 'FIX' - New York Post. Monday, June 29, 2009 Last Update: 05:45 AM EDT. (New York Post -- Opinions)
Is this just another Braves tease? Jun 21, 2009
One was when conservative columnist George F. Will said something like: When it comes to baseball, I am a Marxist and believe in the labor theory of value or some such. Put specifically, Mr. Bisher: NO ONE has ever paid to see an OWNER. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Sports)
George F. Will: 'Goode' pokes stick at sanctimonious green movement Jun 4, 2009
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Tim Hatfield: Greed is not good May 22, 2009
In his May 18 column, George F. Will had one thing correct, at least: Greed grows when Republicans hold the presidency. But the rest of his little piece culminating in a facile, lame attempt to equate market-driven controls on sports ticket scalping with the monumental national, even worldwide, mess induced by the egregious greed is good ethic of the Bush years smacks of the same kind of insensitivity as Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you enjoy the play. (Winona Daily News, MN)
Complicity torments California May 21, 2009
By GEORGE F. WILL First published in print: Thursday, May 21, 2009. California, the sunny incubator of America's future, has relished its role as a leading indicator of political trends. (Albany Times Union)
THE END OF FREE MARKETS May 10, 2009
Sunday, May 10, 2009 Last Update: 06:50 AM EDT. HEADING FOR AN UPSIDE DOWN WORLD. (New York Post -- Opinions)
Extracting sunbeams in Detroit May 8, 2009
By GEORGE F. WILL First published in print: Friday, May 8, 2009. Gulliver's travels took him to the Academy of Lagado, where "professors contrive new rules and methods" for everything: "One man shall do the work of ten; a palace may be built in a week, of materials so durable as to last forever without repairing. All the fruits of the earth shall come to maturity at whatever season we think fit to choose, and increase a hundredfold more than they do at present." There was, however, the... (Albany Times Union)
Making a mockery of negotiation May 1, 2009
By GEORGE F. WILL First published in print: Friday, May 1, 2009. Reconciliation: The action of bringing to agreement, concord, or harmony. (Albany Times Union)
Barack Obama Sent Somali Pirates a Trio of Snipers Apr 30, 2009
Chuck Todd, Jake Tapper, Charlie Gibson, Anderson Cooper, Katie Couric, Matt Lauer, George F. Will, David Brooks, and Charles Krauthammer added the Twitter application. Joe Biden completed the quiz Which sexy man are you. (Slate)
Drug-cartel crimes hurting Valley's tourism Apr 28, 2009
"An American city kidnapped by the cartels," story on Phoenix by nationally syndicated columnist George F. Will, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, March 20. "Mexican drug gangs bring abduction epidemic to Phoenix," Los Angeles Times, Feb. 12. (AZCentral -- Business)
Real power hitters are the umpires Apr 10, 2009
By GEORGE F. WILL First published in print: Friday, April 10, 2009. In Mark Twain's "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court," a time-traveling American brought baseball to 6th-century England, where arguments with umpires were robust: "The umpire's first decision was usually his last. ... When it was noticed that no umpire ever survived a game, umpiring got to be unpopular." But it remains a necessary, extraordinarily demanding and insufficiently appreciated craft. (Albany Times Union)
THE ILLEGAL STIMULUS Mar 29, 2009
Sunday, March 29, 2009 Last Update: 05:30 AM EDT. UNCONSTITUTIONAL POWERS GRANTED BY CONGRESS. (New York Post -- Opinions)
Politics of changing economy Mar 27, 2009
By GEORGE F. WILL First published in print: Thursday, March 26, 2009. With the braying of 328 yahoos members of the House of Representatives who voted for retroactive and punitive use of the tax code to confiscate legal earnings of a small unpopular group still reverberating, the Obama administration Monday invited private-sector investors to become business partners with the capricious and increasingly anti-constitutional government. (Albany Times Union)
GEORGE WILL: The Toxic Assets We Elected... Mar 25, 2009
George F. Will - The Toxic Assets We Elected ... By George F. Will Tuesday, March 24, 2009; A13. (The Drudge Report)
MEXICAN STANDOFF Mar 22, 2009
Sunday, March 22, 2009 Last Update: 08:20 AM EDT. IN ARIZONA, A PLEA TO REFORM IMMIGRATION. (New York Post -- Opinions)
Border problems go to pot Mar 21, 2009
By GEORGE F. WILL First published in print: Friday, March 20, 2009. PHOENIX X-Caliber, a gun store in a nondescript neighborhood in this city's northern section, has become embroiled in Mexico's turmoil. (Albany Times Union)
George F. Will: Cool on Warming, Hot on Baseball Mar 11, 2009
After George F. Will wrote a column last month questioning the faulty premises and apocalyptic predictions of global-warming alarmists, he caught holy heck from America's eco-pessimists. He and his editors at The Washington Post were blasted with thousands of angry e-mails, most of which challenged Will's assertion that global sea ice levels have not been dramatically reduced by man-made global warming, as environmentalists claim, but are essentially the same as they were in 1979. (Townhall.com)
George F. Will: Iraq pact offers Congress a chance to reclaim itself Mar 5, 2009
By George F. Will Published: Thursday, Mar. 5, 2009 - 12:00 am | Page 19A. (Sacramento Bee -- Opinion)
The law, as seen by Feingold Feb 24, 2009
By GEORGE F. WILL First published in print: Monday, February 23, 2009. A simple apology would have sufficed. (Albany Times Union)
George F. Will: Haste makes waste, and hasty measures will waste trillions Feb 19, 2009
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WILL: Weird faith of eco-pessimists (9) Feb 16, 2009
WILL: Weird faith of eco-pessimists : North County Times - Californian 02-15-2009. Entertainment Extras. (North County Times)
How Congress Trumps Darwin Feb 10, 2009
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