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    HENRIKSEN: Obama foreign policy should cost him the election

    Pundits repeatedly tell us that the November election is all about America's economy and that the electorate faces a stark choice. For some reason, America's role abroad, especially in dealing with rogue states, is seldom discussed.

  • A voter leaves the Alexandria City Hall after voting in the Virginia elections in Alexandria, Va. Tuesday, November 3, 2009. (Michael Connor / The Washington Times)

    BLANKLEY: Is our government really broken?

    If you want to see broken government, consider the fall of the constitutional Roman Republic and the rise of Julius Caesar: "Fortune turned against us and brought confusion to all we did. Greed destroyed honor, honesty and every other virtue, and taught men to be arrogant and cruel, to neglect the gods. Ambition made men false. Rome changed: A government which had once surpassed all others in justice and excellence now became cruel and unbearable." So said the historian Sallust at the time.

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