Opinion Columns
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Watergate and watchdogs — the duty remainsJun 14, 2012 5:00 am - It would be less than accurate to suggest that The Washington Post’s reporting on the Watergate scandal initiated modern-day investigative journalism, but it certainly g...
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The Iron Lady warned usJun 14, 2012 5:00 am - LONDON — One of many things left out of the film “The Iron Lady” was Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s warnings on the effects a single currency would have on the econo...
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Nobody likes a loserJun 13, 2012 5:00 am - For the past year, we’ve been relentlessly reminded that Republicans didn’t especially love their front-running presidential candidate. Mitt Romney wasn’t conservative ...
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What the leakers have wroughtJun 13, 2012 5:00 am - Pity the poor Obama administration leakers. They impart their much-cherished secrets to make their man look good and then, at the first chirp of criticism, are ordered t...
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Subprime college educationsJun 12, 2012 5:00 am - Many parents and the children they send to college are paying rapidly rising prices for something of declining quality. This is because “quality” is not synonymous with ...
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Zero-sum means everybody losesJun 10, 2012 5:00 am - For all the hype about the Wisconsin recall election echoing across America, dear reader, you wouldn’t know it ended with a whimper, not a bang. The pollsters were sayin...
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What Wisconsin means to unionsJun 10, 2012 5:00 am - Tuesday, June 5, 2012, will be remembered as the beginning of the long decline of the public-sector union. It will follow, and parallel, the shrinking of private-sector ...
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Growing independence from both partiesJun 08, 2012 11:33 am - In his 2007 book, “The Great Upheaval: America and the Birth of the Modern World, 1788-1800,” historian Jay Winik writes that among Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton ...
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Playing with dynamite over pensionsJun 08, 2012 5:00 am - Gov. Scott Walker’s decisive victory in Wisconsin admits to a number of plausible explanations: a rejection of overreach in the use of recall elections, a repudiation of...
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Praise for a one-ballot primaryJun 08, 2012 5:00 am - My right-wing friend, ginned up (literally) from his team’s impending “victory” in Wisconsin, called me on Tuesday night. I took some of his glow off by noting that I, t...