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The Army realized that Major Nidal Hasan had reached some sort of crisis point last year, but as the Washington Post reports today, they deliberately avoided a determination of danger that would have led them to separate Hasan from the service. Instead, they sent him to a lecture series on Islam in the hope that it might clear up Hasan’s “delusional” thinking on his religion. None of Hasan’s fellow psychiatrists at Walter Reed thought he was dangerous, but they almost willed themselves not to ask the real questions: Army psychiatrists at Walter Reed Army Medical Center who supervised Maj. Nidal...

Obamacare Version 1.0 is dead. The 1,000-page monstrosity that emerged in various editions from Congress was done in by widespread national revulsion not just at its expense and intrusiveness but also at the mendacity with which it is being sold. You don't need a PhD to see that the promise to expand coverage and reduce costs is a crude deception, or that cutting $500 billion from Medicare without affecting care is a fiction. But there is an exit strategy. And a politically clever one, if the Democrats are smart enough to seize it. (1) Forget the public option. Whatever the...