Opinion Columns
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Death be not proudJun 28, 2012 5:00 am - No doubt it’s the mark of getting older, but hardly a week goes by when a death — of someone I know or someone I know of — doesn’t hit me in the gut. When I was younger ...
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Our evolving thoughts on punishmentJun 28, 2012 5:00 am - “Even if it could be demonstrated unequivocally that (public flogging and hand branding) were not cruel and unusual measures in 1791 ... I doubt whether any federal judg...
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Britain’s object lesson on ObamacareJun 27, 2012 5:00 am - BELFAST, Northern Ireland — Regardless of how the Supreme Court rules on the “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act,” the Obama administration has indicated it will...
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The unexciting presidential campaignJun 27, 2012 5:00 am - If the presidential campaign were a TV program, it would have been canceled by now. Viewers have clicked off, stupefied by a campaign that has one overriding issue, the ...
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The Romneys’ horse senseJun 26, 2012 5:00 am - The punch line is at least as old as the eldest baby boomer: “I didn’t get a pony.” Here’s Jerry Seinfeld: “I hated those kids (who had ponies). In fact, I hate anyone ...
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The long, hot summer of workJun 25, 2012 12:39 pm - With summer’s arrival comes a journalistic convention that seems more and more dated. It is the “summer reading list” of books, often beside a graphic showing a bathing ...
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Fast and Furious — the witch huntJun 25, 2012 5:00 am - In 2006, when George W. Bush was president, federal law enforcement officials came up with a spectacularly dumb idea: Allow powerful firearms purchased in the United Sta...
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The immigration bombshell: Naked lawlessnessJun 24, 2012 5:00 am - “With respect to the notion that I can just suspend deportations (of immigrants brought here illegally as children) through executive order, that’s just not the case, be...
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Photogs’ faves: From MJ to ?GuatemalaJun 24, 2012 5:00 am - So, Patrick Kunzer’s irascible photo editor tells him to get something other than the standard head-on shot. Something we’ve never seen before, maybe a behind-the-scenes...
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Choosing life in LiberiaJun 23, 2012 4:42 pm - MONROVIA, Liberia — A young woman named Princess, already a refugee from civil war, was diagnosed with HIV in 2008. She began treatment but stopped taking her medicine. ...