Opinion Columns
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The money managerJul 09, 2012 10:26 am - You can conduct byzantine transactions through opaque investment accounts and private corporations in offshore tax havens such as Bermuda and the Cayman Islands. Or you ...
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Health care politics go into extra inningsJul 09, 2012 5:00 am - There was never much doubt that the individual mandate in “Obamacare” was constitutional. As Harvard Law School professor Einer Elhauge had noted, the first Congress in ...
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Finding freedom in circumcisionJul 09, 2012 5:00 am - “This is my covenant which you shall keep, between me and you and your descendants after you: Every male child among you shall be circumcised.” -- Genesis 17:10 A distr...
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Back in the USAJul 08, 2012 5:00 am - Some of my fondest memories of childhood are of the Fourth of July. In Swampscott, Mass., we used to have a parade of kids on bikes that went down Aspen Road and then ar...
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The imperial presidency revisitedJul 08, 2012 5:00 am - Though overshadowed by the shocking Supreme Court decision on health care, the court’s Arizona immigration decision, issued three days earlier, remains far more signific...
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To judges go the leftovers; a Ribfest retrospectiveJul 08, 2012 5:00 am - In the already-sweltering Ribfest tent, Naperville Mayor George Pradel rose to his feet last Sunday and bellowed out the rib judges’ sacred oath: “I do solemnly swear to...
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Selective morality in AmericaJul 06, 2012 5:00 am - When asked at the close of the Constitutional Convention in 1787 what the Founders had wrought, Benjamin Franklin famously said, “A Republic, if you can keep it.” That q...
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GOP missing the bus on immigrationJul 05, 2012 10:52 am - The John F. Kennedy Center hosted a musical last month titled “First You Dream.” When I noticed the ad, I thought about President Obama’s initiative through the Departme...
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Chicago-sized test of willsJul 05, 2012 5:00 am - CHICAGO — The title of the nation’s largest labor union — the National Education Association — seems calculated to blur the fact that it is a teachers union. In this blu...
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Executive women are not that special, eitherJul 04, 2012 1:52 pm - Two cultural events have caught our attention this season. One is the stern graduation speech at Wellesley (Mass.) High School in which teacher David McCullough Jr. told...