Opinion Columns
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Christie’s Tea Party problemNov 13, 2013 4:00 am - The day after Chris Christie, the cuddly moderate conservative, won a landslide re-election as the Republican governor of Democratic New Jersey, I took the Internet Expr...
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Obama’s apology a start, but we deserve betterNov 12, 2013 4:00 am - President Obama is no lip-biting, tear-streaking, chin-trembling apologist. When he said he was sorry for the health care mess-up in an interview with NBC’s Chuck Todd, ...
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Evangelicals and immigration reformNov 10, 2013 4:00 am - In the immigration reform debate, evangelicals have become a political prize claimed by restrictionists and reformers alike. Both sides have a case to make. Of the majo...
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Stunningly, you can’t have fun with every storyNov 10, 2013 4:00 am - In a stunning development, not every brilliant idea I come up with for this column pans out. A couple weeks ago, I was struck by how much fun the reporters and editors ...
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Time to fish or cut bait on tax reformNov 08, 2013 4:00 am - As Congress moves forward on budget negotiations, the word out of Washington is to expect nothing major: no grand bargain, just more stopgap, short-term fixes. Yet there...
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Amid chaos, listen to the songs of hopeNov 07, 2013 4:00 am - The leaves are turning yellow and orange and red, and others have already fallen. You can smell the seasons in the air. Thanksgiving’s on my mind and a winter of more di...
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‘Affordable’ care depends on the size of your subsidyNov 07, 2013 4:00 am - What does the word “affordable” in the Affordable Care Act mean? Many people might assume it means Obamacare will make health coverage less expensive. That’s certainly t...
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The GOP’s new realityNov 05, 2013 10:52 am - Following the recent Tea Party Tet Offensive — tactically disastrous but symbolically important — the Republican establishment has commenced counterinsurgency operations...
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What art says about the pastNov 05, 2013 7:45 am - I sometimes think I have spent years unlearning what I learned earlier in my life. For instance, it was not George A. Custer who was attacked at the Little Bighorn. It w...
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A know-it-all’s advice to GOP on HillaryNov 05, 2013 4:00 am - Ms. Know-It-All, the anonymous political advice columnist whose identity remains a popular Georgetown cocktail party guessing game, is also known to live up to her title...