Opinion Columns
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The tension between public safety, libertyDec 20, 2012 1:41 pm - Every mass shooting has three elements: the killer, the weapon and the cultural climate. As soon as the shooting stops, partisans immediately pick their preferred root c...
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Events that test the limits of the goal of restraintDec 20, 2012 4:00 am - Our first impulse was for restraint, but it is impossible to be fully restrained when 20 elementary schoolchildren are shot dead, along with teachers, a principal and ot...
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Step 1: Declare we will not accept thisDec 20, 2012 4:00 am - The intercom had been switched on. “At first we heard a bunch of kids scream,” said a therapist at Sandy Hook Elementary School, “and then it was just quiet and all you ...
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Michigan’s watershed momentDec 18, 2012 4:00 am - Rick Snyder, who is hardly a human cactus, warned Michigan’s labor leaders. The state’s mild-mannered Republican governor, currently in his first term in his first publi...
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Wonderland on a cliffDec 18, 2012 4:00 am - Are you as sick of the “fiscal cliff” as I am? Actually, that’s a trick question. You couldn’t possibly be. Having to read and hear the constant blather about this self...
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The right-to-work dilemmaDec 17, 2012 4:00 am - For all the fury and fistfights outside the Lansing Capitol, what happened in Michigan last week was a simple accommodation to reality. The most famously unionized state...
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Christmas in Santa MonicaDec 17, 2012 4:00 am - Christmas in my home city of Santa Monica is different this year. It used to be that there were elaborate displays depicting the birth of Jesus in the big public park by...
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Dispelling the second-term bluesDec 16, 2012 4:00 am - A president’s first term is a fresh track in the snow. His second term moves on a set of rutted paths. The shiny cause has become a vast machine, its wheels spinning on ...
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America’s reluctant First FatherDec 14, 2012 4:00 am - One of my great hopes for a Barack Obama administration — and thus one of my personal disappointments — was that he would use his bully pulpit to emphasize the importanc...
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Crashing federal hypocrisy on potDec 14, 2012 4:00 am - Ah, the great American West, where man can generally breathe free and also inhale — woman, too. Thank you, thank you, voters in Colorado and Washington state, for legali...