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Russia denies poisoning ex-spy.

Christopher Hitchens is disgusted by O.J. Simpson's new book and interview. He'll be happy that Rupert Murdoch has pulled the plug on both.

Michael Fumento describes how we are defeating the insurgents and Al Qaeda in Ramadi. This great article starts with an overview, then provides great detail.

Joel Mowbray points out some positives for the GOP in Ohio.

Michael Barone is looking for new ideas, but he dismisses the idea smaller government.

Barone's complete dismissal of reducing the size of government, the best idea there is regarding government, illustrates exactly why Republicans lost. It would take decades to undo all the damage done to freedom by government since the New Deal, so there will be enough reform ideas for at least that long.

Let's start with holding spending flat for 2 years, abolishing the department of education that has destroyed education in this country, getting the central government out of health care so prices can drop and quality can improve, and we can phase out all the entitlements.

We'll abolish the income tax and all payroll taxes and adopt the FairTax. When people keep 100% of their paychecks, they can afford to pay for their own retirement and health care, which will dramatically lower costs and improve services.

We'll arrest employers of illegal aliens to stem the flood of illegals coming into the country. We can increase the number of legal immigrants for the benefit of the nation.

We can defeat our enemies. That idea seems to have been lost on all politicians in the last 15 years, so it's not new, but it's a good one. I like it way better than fighting with no end in sight. I like it better than catch and release. I like it better than surrounding our enemies, then letting them go so they can kill more Americans another day.

There's a million reformist ideas. Republicans and Barone are just dismissing them, and that's why Republicans got spanked. Republicans need to tap into the great unrepresented libertarian mainstream of America Reagan tapped instead playing tug-of-war over the tiny middle between big-government Democrats and big-government Republicans.