<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - George F. Will</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/opinion/columns/willgeorge?nav=rss_opinion/columns/willgeorge</link><description>George F. Will</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[Unread and Unsubscribing]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10698-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/willgeorge</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10698-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/willgeorge</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:48:13 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  If you awake before dawn you probably hear a daily sound that may become as anachronistic as the clatter of horses' hooves on urban cobblestones. The sound is the slap of the morning paper on the sidewalk.]]></description><author> George F. Will</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have a Nice Day, or Else]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6179-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/willgeorge</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6179-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/willgeorge</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:48:13 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  It hurt her feelings, says Jane Fonda, sharing her feelings, that one of her husbands liked them to have sexual threesomes. "It reinforced my feeling I wasn't good enough."]]></description><author> George F. Will</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suicide by Secularism?]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57781-2005Apr15.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/willgeorge</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57781-2005Apr15.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/willgeorge</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:48:13 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  The astonishing pilgrimage of Europeans to Vatican City for the most attended funeral in history obscured a stark fact confronting the conclave that tomorrow begins selecting the next pope: Vatican City is 109 acres of faith in a European sea of unbelief.]]></description><author> George F. Will</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eugenics By Abortion]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51671-2005Apr13.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/willgeorge</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51671-2005Apr13.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/willgeorge</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:48:13 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  In Britain, as in Europe generally, abortion law has not been made by judges proclaiming glistening, hard-edged rights that cannot be compromised. Rather, abortion law has been made by lawmakers  --  imagine that  --  seeking to accommodate clashing sensibilities. That is one reason why British law is less extreme than America's essentially unlimited right to abortion on demand.]]></description><author> George F. Will</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[One Man's Way to Better Schools]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38726-2005Apr8.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/willgeorge</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38726-2005Apr8.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/willgeorge</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:48:13 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  PHOENIX  --  Patrick Byrne, a 42-year-old bear of a man who bristles with ideas that have made him rich and restless, has an idea that can provide a new desktop computer for every student in America without costing taxpayers a new nickel. Or it could provide 300,000 new $40,000-a-year teachers without any increase in taxes. His idea  --  call it the 65 Percent Solution  --  is politically delicious because it unites parents, taxpayers and teachers while, he hopes, sowing dissension in the ranks of the teachers unions, which he considers the principal institutional impediment to improving primary and secondary education.]]></description><author> George F. Will</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Old Ballgame Still Has Its Grip]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23879-2005Apr3.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/willgeorge</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23879-2005Apr3.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/willgeorge</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:48:13 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ <em> Opening Day quiz:</em><br><em> (a) Name the only player to get at least 500 hits with four teams.</em>]]></description><author> George F. Will</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Celebrant of Freedom]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21977-2005Apr2.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/willgeorge</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21977-2005Apr2.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/willgeorge</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:48:13 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   In Eastern Europe, where both world wars began, the end of the Cold War began on Oct. 16, 1978, with a puff of white smoke in Western Europe. It wafted over one of Europe's grandest public spaces, over Michelangelo's dome of St. Peter's, over statues of the saints atop Bernini's curving colonnade that embraces visitors to Vatican City.]]></description><author> George F. Will</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Old Ballgame Still Has Its Grip]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20060-2005Apr1.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/willgeorge</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20060-2005Apr1.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/willgeorge</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:48:13 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ <em>  Opening Day quiz:</em><br><em> (a) Name the only player to get at least 500 hits with four teams.</em>]]></description><author> George F. Will</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Tax Plan To Kill K Street]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14401-2005Mar30.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/willgeorge</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14401-2005Mar30.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/willgeorge</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:48:13 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   The power to tax involves, as Chief Justice John Marshall said, the power to destroy. So does the power of tax reform, which is one reason why Rep. John Linder, a Georgia Republican, has a 133-page bill to replace 55,000 pages of tax rules.]]></description><author> George F. Will</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Yucca Mountain Basket]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2221-2005Mar25.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/willgeorge</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2221-2005Mar25.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/willgeorge</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:48:13 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   YUCCA MOUNTAIN, Nev.  --  Things have a grand scale out here. The Nevada Test Site adjacent to this mountain is bigger than Rhode Island but smaller than Nellis Air Force Base, which also is adjacent. But the biggest thing is the dispute, now roiling a second decade, about carving a nuclear waste repository in this mountain's innards, 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas.]]></description><author> George F. Will</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nevada's Big Test]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61697-2005Mar23.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/willgeorge</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61697-2005Mar23.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/willgeorge</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:48:13 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   YUCCA MOUNTAIN, Nev.  --  Driving northwest into the desolate vastness of the Nevada Test Site, where the nation's nuclear arsenal was tested, one sees a spindly tower, outlined against a ridgeline, rising 1,527 feet out of the desert. That is the approximate height at which the atomic bomb exploded over Hiroshima. The tower was used to study radiation effects on life at different elevations.]]></description><author> George F. Will</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why Filibusters Should Be Allowed]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48499-2005Mar18.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/willgeorge</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48499-2005Mar18.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/willgeorge</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:48:13 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   With Republicans inclined to change Senate rules to make filibusters of judicial nominees impossible, Democrats have recklessly given Republicans an additional incentive to do so. It is a redundant incentive, because Republicans think  --  mistakenly  --  that they have sufficient constitutional reasons for doing so.]]></description><author> George F. Will</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Committee on Steroids]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32589-2005Mar13.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/willgeorge</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32589-2005Mar13.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/willgeorge</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:48:13 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   America's ambitious educators  --  the likes of Princeton's Rev. John Witherspoon (1723-94) and Harvard's Charles William Eliot (1834-1926)  --  now include Reps. Tom Davis and Henry Waxman, chairman and ranking Democratic member respectively of the House Government Reform Committee, which, come Thursday morning, wants to instruct the nation, and especially all the little boys and girls watching C-SPAN. The committee's topic will be steroids in baseball, the committee having decided that there has been a serious insufficiency of talk about that subject since its much-talked-about appearance in the president's State of the Union address 14 months ago.]]></description><author> George F. Will</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lindsey Graham's Good Idea]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28526-2005Mar11.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/willgeorge</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28526-2005Mar11.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/willgeorge</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:48:13 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   In 1994, when a 39-year-old state legislator was asked in Aiken, S.C., how he was enticing voters to make him the first Republican elected to Congress from that district since Reconstruction, he said: "I'm one less vote for an agenda that makes you want to throw up." Lindsey Graham won, and in 2002, advocating voluntary personal retirement accounts funded by a portion of individuals' Social Security taxes, he won a Senate seat. Now he has an idea that makes some Republicans throw up: Raise the current $90,000 limit on income subject to Social Security taxes.]]></description><author> George F. Will</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Race and 'Rights']]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25617-2005Mar10.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/willgeorge</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25617-2005Mar10.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/willgeorge</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:48:13 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  In contemporary American politics, as in earlier forms of vaudeville, it helps to have an easy act to follow. Gerald A. Reynolds certainly did.]]></description><author> George F. Will</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wrong on All Counts]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8745-2005Mar4.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/willgeorge</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8745-2005Mar4.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/willgeorge</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:48:13 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   In 1992, before delivering the Supreme Court's ruling in an abortion case, Justice Anthony Kennedy stood with a journalist observing rival groups of demonstrators and mused: "Sometimes you don't know if you're Caesar about to cross the Rubicon or Captain Queeg cutting your own tow line." Or perhaps you are a would-be legislator, a dilettante sociologist and a free-lance moralist, disguised as a judge.]]></description><author> George F. Will</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cut Buster Loose]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2711-2005Mar2.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/willgeorge</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2711-2005Mar2.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/willgeorge</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:48:13 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   In 1967 Lyndon Johnson added yet another piece to the jigsaw puzzle of national perfection: The Corporation for Public Broadcasting was born. Public television was a dubious idea even when concocted as a filigree on the Great Society. Why should government subsidize the production and distribution of entertainment and, even worse, journalism? Even if there were -- has there ever been? -- a shortage of either in America, is it government's duty to address all cultural shortages?]]></description><author> George F. Will</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A City That Bets on Water]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54745-2005Feb25.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/willgeorge</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54745-2005Feb25.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/willgeorge</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:48:13 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   LAS VEGAS -- In this city of histrionic architecture, the building that matters most may be the bland, low-slung headquarters of the Southern Nevada Water Authority. The general manager since the authority was formed in 1991, the elegant, no-nonsense Pat Mulroy, 52, is determined to prevent a water shortage from inhibiting the growth of this city, which is dedicated to the proposition that inhibitions are sinful.]]></description><author> George F. Will</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fight for the Corners]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48687-2005Feb23.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/willgeorge</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48687-2005Feb23.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/willgeorge</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:48:13 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  CHICAGO -- He looks like the actor Wilford Brimley -- round as a beach ball; grandfatherly gray mustache -- but Philip J. Cline, this city's police superintendent, is, like his city, hard as a baseball. And as they say in baseball, he puts up numbers.]]></description><author> George F. Will</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Illinois's Ambitious Governor]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36627-2005Feb18.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/willgeorge</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36627-2005Feb18.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns/willgeorge</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 7:48:13 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   CHICAGO -- It was a marriage made in heaven, as this politics-saturated city probably understands heaven. Rod Blagojevich, the future governor, met his future wife at a fundraiser for her father, the alderman from the 33rd Ward for 30 years now. Herewith a story about the perils of politics in what is -- the state's license plates say so -- the Land of Lincoln.]]></description><author> George F. Will</author></item></channel></rss>