wiseGEEK defines Selective Hearing as "the tendency of some people to ignore things that they don’t want to hear. It is not a physiological condition, as they are physically hearing the words, but their minds choose not to acknowledge the words."
The last time the Huffington Post paid attention to George Will was three years ago, when he said that Sarah Palin was "obviously not qualified to be President." In the meantime, he's published more than three hundred columns.
Jewish World Review has the archives:
10/29/11 Romney could damage chances for the GOP
10/27/11 Inundated by a river of words
10/23/11 The unlikely target of conservatives
10/20/11 A Republic, guaranteed
10/15/11 The NBA standoff pits the elite vs. the elite
10/13/11 Calling for a Mulligan
10/08/11 Protect the states
10/06/11 Collectivists' Goal Is To Dilute Our Concept Of Individualism
10/02/11 Educational overreach: A federal takeover
09/29/11 A Frank 'cure' for the Fed
09/25/11 Nibbling away at free enterprise
09/22/11 Obstructing the right to recall
09/17/11 At the Pentagon, the specter of a sequester
09/15/11 Our floundering 'federal family'
09/10/11 Sept. 11's self-inflicted wounds
09/08/11 Why libs fear the 'Lochner' decision
09/03/11 Question time for Republicans
09/01/11 Fresh brew
08/28/11 And now, a school choice fight
08/25/11 Libs' Waterloo
08/20/11 Chris Christie, America's Caesar
08/18/11 America's lost ally
08/14/11 JFK's Berlin blunder
08/11/11 Britain tackles the welfare state
08/07/11 Making hay at the Ames straw poll
08/02/11 The debt deal and Obama's 2012 problem
07/31/11 Declaration of independents
07/25/11 Congress stands its ground
07/21/11 Tea Party would defeat Obama by supporting McConnell plan on debt
07/07/11 Warming Up In GOP Pen For Alibi Ike
07/02/11 Burning down the house
06/29/11 A Supreme Court win for political speech and political money
06/26/11 Rick Perry: A Texan's 'exceptionalism'
06/23/11 John McCain's never-ending war
06/19/11 Libya and the Potemkin alliance
06/16/11 For conservatives, it can't get any better
06/11/11 Government by the 'experts'
06/09/11 Obama and free trade: Appease big labor
06/04/11 The NFL's labor pains
06/02/11 Jon Huntsman's thorny path to the GOP nomination
05/28/11 Is Obama above the law?
05/26/11 A moment to seize
05/22/11 Golden State blues, in the red
05/19/11 Hugs and taxes
05/15/11 The Dreamliner nightmare
05/12/11 History lessons for Obama and other liberals
05/08/11 The wonders of being 70
05/02/11 The small footprint that eliminated bin Laden
05/01/11 The 'Amazon Tax' effect
04/27/11 This is reform?
04/24/11 Tackling education's status quo
04/21/11 The GOP sends in a Marine for education reform
04/17/11 A conservative populist leaves the Fed
04/14/11 The curse of free money
04/07/11 An Arizona city's sports mania encounters a hard check
04/07/11 The haze of humanitarian imperialism
04/02/11 Citizens shouldn't have to justify their speech.
03/31/11 Step up to the plate for a baseball quiz
03/27/11 College daze: The insanity of the application process
03/24/11 Is it America's duty to intervene wherever regime change is needed?
03/20/11 The 'blue national soil' of China's navy
03/17/11 America's Navy and the rise of China
03/13/11 The Supreme Court and the health-care mandate muddle
03/09/11 On Libya, too many questions
03/06/11 Mike Huckabee, Newt Gingrich and the spotlight-chasing candidates of 2012
03/03/11 Lamar Smith: Immigration's taskmaster
2/27/11 Teach for America: Letting the cream rise
2/21/11 Out of Wisconsin, a lesson in leadership for Obama
2/20/11 Jim Jordan: House Republicans' eager budget cutter
2/17/11 Mitch Daniels's case for a less strident conservatism
2/13/11 The GOP's defense budget mystery
2/09/11 Egypt's revolution to win or lose
2/06/11 John Kasich: Spoiling for a fight in Ohio
2/03/11 Rick Santorum's appeal to the GOP base
1/30/11 Uncle Sam in the driver's seat
1/27/11 Getting American students to find the goal posts of success
1/23/11 America's political disharmony
1/20/11 Hubris heading for a fall
1/16/11 A Congress that reasserts its power
1/11/11 The charlatans' response to the Tucson tragedy
01/09/11 Fred Upton, Rust Belt revolutionary
01/06/11 Given up your New Year's resolutions? It's the American way
01/01/11 Rev the scientific engine
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