Opinion Columns
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The risks of retreatMar 19, 2013 5:00 am - Declining national influence is a choice, and America seems to be making it. What foreign policy practitioners politely call the “churn” of events is beginning to look m...
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Scary new world: Have mug shot removed for a feeMar 17, 2013 5:00 am - It can be a pretty scary world in which we live. Evidence is found on today’s Page 1, where Josh Stockinger chronicles a new enterprise that’s raised the hackles of law ...
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The silliness of demographic panicMar 15, 2013 5:00 am - If you drove to work today, did you worry about too few cars on the road? Do you wish more people were waiting in line at the public tennis courts? Are you eager to see ...
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News decisions involve more than hits and clicksMar 14, 2013 11:33 am - Random thoughts journalistic: Ÿ I promise not to devote yet another entire column to coverage of the April 9 election, but I couldn’t help shuddering at a true fact that...
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Optical illusionsMar 14, 2013 9:47 am - The media love optics, and no one understands this better than President Obama. Thus, he invited a gang of Republican senators to din-dins at the swank (and legendary) J...
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Where’s the beef?Mar 14, 2013 5:00 am - In an iconic commercial, two white-haired ladies, after looking inside a nearly empty hamburger bun, demand of the hapless fast-food clerk, “Where’s the beef?” The phras...
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Media myopia in RomeMar 14, 2013 5:00 am - All things considered, I’d rather be in Rome. Isn’t everyone? Tout le journalism monde has descended on Rome since Pope Benedict XVI’s surprise retirement last month. Th...
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The boilerplate gapMar 14, 2013 5:00 am - It would be a mistake to confuse a budget proposal for a proposed budget, though they bear a superficial resemblance. A budget proposal — of the type that Paul Ryan, R-W...
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Harvard profs steamed at opened emailsMar 13, 2013 5:00 am - “Harvard Search of Email Stuns Its Faculty Members,” the headline says. University officials rifled through the messages of resident deans to learn who passed on a confi...
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Rand Paul’s real warMar 13, 2013 5:00 am - Since arriving in the Senate in 2011, Rand Paul has been probing here and there for issues of populist resonance. Audit the secretive, sinister Federal Reserve. Rein in ...