Opinion Columns
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The GOP suicide marchJan 24, 2012 4:00 am - “Are you better off today than you were $4 trillion ago?” — Former presidential candidate Rick Perry It’s the campaign line of the year, and while the author won’t be ca...
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How “Downton Abbey” is more democratic than we areJan 24, 2012 4:00 am - Every Sunday night, the mega-carriages drop millions of us off at “Downton Abbey,” the hit PBS series about an aristocratic family, its English country estate and the co...
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Paterno epitaph: He protected himself, not the childrenJan 23, 2012 8:00 am - On those glorious, golden football Saturdays at Penn State — especially after any of Joe Paterno's record 409 wins — the nickname “Happy Valley” was invoked ad nauseam. ...
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A Latino identity crisisJan 22, 2012 11:00 pm - The Latino community is finding itself in a quandary about how to reconcile a tremendously diverse collection of immigrants and multigenerational U.S.-born citizens who ...
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Better living through wonkeryJan 22, 2012 11:00 pm - It is an achievement of the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street movements to have raised large issues of economic freedom and economic inequality. It is a paradox that thei...
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Gingrich and the perils of projectionJan 22, 2012 4:00 am - Newt Gingrich’s standing ovation Thursday night, when he attacked CNN moderator John King for asking about allegations that Gingrich wanted an “open marriage” with his s...
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A horrific news week in the suburbsJan 22, 2012 4:00 am - If you just landed in the suburbs and looked at the front pages of our Wednesday and Thursday editions, you might have thought: What a horrific and dangerous place to li...
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About the dogJan 20, 2012 4:00 am - There is a famous story (it may be apocryphal, of course) about Richard Nixon and his dog. No, I don’t mean the Checkers speech, the one where Nixon saved his integrity ...
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Three conservative victoriesJan 20, 2012 4:00 am - While most attention is focused on the presidential race and Republican hopes to oust President Obama from office, some significant steps were taken last week on issues ...
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The pirates who would drown us in the Sea of NothingJan 18, 2012 11:00 pm - Wikipedia and a handful of other important global websites went dark Wednesday to protest legislation in Congress that they see as overly broad and potentially dangerous...