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Barack Obama: The StoryBy David Maraniss (Simon & Schuster, 641 pp., $32.50) READ MORE >>

This column is a collaboration between KHN and The New Republic. He’s a socialist! He’ll redistribute wealth! He wants to pull the plug on grandma! That’s what Republicans said about President Barack Obama back in 2009, while he was trying to make health care reform bill law. Now they’re saying it about Donald Berwick, the man Obama has appointed to help make health care reform work. READ MORE >>

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John Judis writes to protest my inclusion of a Churchill photo in an item about Republicans who won't give up on defeating health care reform even after it passes into law, citing this quote: March 2, 1944 READ MORE >>

Ezra Klein is up in arms about this Investors Business Daily editorial which makes the following claim: People such as scientist Stephen Hawking wouldn't have a chance in the U.K., where the National Health Service would say the life of this brilliant man, because of his physical handicaps, is essentially worthless. Ezra writes: READ MORE >>

To the unschooled eye, the photograph of the 1987 class of the Oxford University Bullingdon Club could be mistaken for a 100-year-old image. The ten young men crowding the frame are dressed in long tails and blue bowties and pose on marble steps, most of them studiously looking away from the camera. But this is a relatively recent photo of members of the aristocratic, and destructive, drinking club: Participants honor the unofficial motto--"I like the sound of breaking glass"--by getting drunk and trashing private property. READ MORE >>

My word, they're a creative bunch at The Corner. Today's debate is on whether or not socialised medicine is a breeding ground for terrorism. Apparently it's also the case that the presence of foreign-trained doctors is further evidence that Britain, like the rest of godless and thus godforsaken Europe, is beyond saving. Here's Stanley Kurtz: READ MORE >>