January 27, 2012

Redistribution for Its Own Sake

Charles Krauthammer, New York Daily News

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Once upon a time, small ball was not President Obama’s game. Tuesday, it was the essence of his State of the Union address. The visionary of 2008 — purveyor of hope and change, healer of the earth, tamer of the rising seas — offered an hour of little things. . .

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