Opinion Columns
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A campaign out of balanceAug 15, 2012 5:00 am - Mitt Romney’s selection of Paul Ryan as his running mate underscores the central question posed by this campaign: Should cold selfishness become the template for our soc...
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Romney-Ryan: Real changeAug 15, 2012 5:00 am - Last Thursday’s Wall Street Journal editorial “Why Not Paul Ryan?” made the case for his selection as the Republican vice presidential nominee in this statement: “Romney...
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When ‘boring’ is goodAug 13, 2012 10:04 am - With Mitt Romney’s announcement that Paul Ryan will be his running mate, we finally can extricate ourselves from one of the sillier debates and put to rest the narrative...
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Looking to the time of no ‘women’s day’Aug 13, 2012 9:51 am - President Obama was in Colorado last Wednesday trying to solidify his lead among women, appearing at rallies with Sandra Fluke, the Georgetown Law student who made headl...
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It’s a question of contextAug 13, 2012 5:00 am - Barack Obama claims only that his legislative and foreign policy achievements in his first two years matched those of “any president — with the possible exceptions of Jo...
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The Grand Old Party’s breaking upAug 13, 2012 5:00 am - When traditional Republicans tell their Tea Party wing that they have to negotiate with Democrats, the radicals’ frequent response is: No, they don’t. One side has to wi...
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Warring over tax returnsAug 12, 2012 5:00 am - Mitt Romney’s defiant secrecy about his personal finances looks like a cross Republicans will have to bear all the way to Election Day. To put it mildly, the burden seem...
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The case against re-electionAug 10, 2012 1:49 pm - There are two ways to run against Barack Obama: stewardship or ideology. You can run against his record or you can run against his ideas. The stewardship case is pretty...
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Money matters, but it’s not everythingAug 09, 2012 5:00 am - News alert: Mitt Romney is raising a lot of money. A whole lot. So much that in the past three months, he’s been outraising the incumbent president, which is no easy fea...
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Romney and his faithAug 09, 2012 5:00 am - Concerning Mormons and Republicans, history offers a large helping of irony. In 1843, an Army officer named John C. Fremont led a geographical expedition of 39 men more ...