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The language of terror
Terrorism is speech — speech that gathers its audience by killing innocents as theatrically as possible. The 19th-century anarchist Paul Brousse called it “propaganda by deed.”
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Obama’s budget offers only an appearance of real reform
Well, at least we’re starting to get the procedure right. Washington has rediscovered the beauty of the boring. It’s called “regular order,” using the normal, routine, constitutional process to arrive at, for example, a budget.
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Charles Krauthammer, the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary winner, writes a column for the Washington Post Writers Group. Born in 1950, he is a member of President Bush's Council on Bioethics and was a speech writer for Vice President Walter Mondale and a science adviser to the Carter administration.
- He can be reached at letters@charleskrauthammer.com.
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