Opinion Columns
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Realities on the road to the nominationDec 27, 2011 4:00 am - The Gingrich balloon is leaking air. He is beginning to look more and more like Howard Dean. The latest Rasmussen caucus poll shows him dropping three points behind Mitt...
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The greatest gift for the unemployedDec 26, 2011 5:00 am - To many rational economists, holiday gift-giving is “an orgy of wealth-destruction,” writes Dan Ariely in The Wall Street Journal. A behavioral economist at Duke Univers...
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Have a politically correct holiday season!Dec 26, 2011 5:00 am - Here we are, uncomfortably sandwiched between Christmas and New Year’s Eve, which, according to top officials at PC Police Headquarters, are the two most politically inc...
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The GOP’s payroll tax debacleDec 26, 2011 5:00 am - Now that Congress appears finally to have reached a compromise on what must be one of the worst pieces of legislation in years — the temporary payroll tax holiday extens...
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The case for wonderDec 25, 2011 5:08 am - The God particle — really the Higgs boson — still resists confirmation, though scientists at the Large Hadron Collider recently reported “tantalizing hints” of its exist...
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Remember the grieving at ChristmasDec 25, 2011 4:00 am - “There’s a grief that can’t be spoken. There’s a pain goes on and on. Empty chairs at empty tables Now my friends are dead and gone.” -- Marius, from the musical “Les Mi...
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Fed up with this kind of ‘funding’Dec 23, 2011 4:00 am - Here’s a sample of what came home in my sons’ backpacks recently: a flier announcing a before-school sale on bags of Hot Cheetos, Funyuns and other high-salt-and-fat jun...
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The 3 a.m. call that demands leadershipDec 23, 2011 4:00 am - It’s late at night when the phone rings at the White House: Kim Jong Il, the ruthless oddball dictator of nuclear-armed North Korea, is dead. His apparent successor is h...
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The temptation of Callista GingrichDec 22, 2011 4:00 am - Callista Gingrich has done something she might come to regret — succumbed to the Twitter fairy and opened the door to unwelcome scrutiny. Until now, the flawlessly coife...
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Christmas choicesDec 22, 2011 4:00 am - Right around now is when people start fretting over creches in the public square and arguing as to whether publicly funded Christmas symbols violate the establishment cl...