Opinion Columns
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The right's health care fantasiesDec 16, 2011 4:00 am - A real conservative would say: “Government should stay out of health care. Let Americans meet their medical needs in the free market.” I respectfully disagree, but thank...
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The wrong way to fight a slurDec 15, 2011 5:00 am - Here’s a perfect example of why do-gooders who crusade for the personal dignity of illegal immigrants have all but lost the war of rhetoric. In November, the American H...
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Tracking the elusive ‘stealth candidate’Dec 15, 2011 4:00 am - The “stealth candidate.” It may not be a term you’re intimately familiar with unless you cover elections for a living, and it may seem as counterintuitive to you as it d...
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Strategies for a front-runnerDec 14, 2011 4:00 am - For weeks the media have complained that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has been shielded from probing interviews. The criticism is valid. With the except...
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No time to turn inwardDec 14, 2011 4:00 am - We are coming up on bad times. Nationalism is surging throughout Europe. In the Arab world, spring is suddenly winter and the sects, the tribes, the clans, the religious...
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Newt and The Donald a-courting goDec 13, 2011 4:00 am - Liberals and conservatives both seem obsessed with the behavior of “the 1 percent,” but there the similarity ends. Liberals seek to change the ways of the richest 1 perc...
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The strange buoyancy of Barack ObamaDec 13, 2011 4:00 am - In a season of curious political phenomena — Michele Bachmann’s unnerving stare, Herman Cain’s last-minute launch of “Women for Cain,” a planned debate hosted by a reali...
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The GOP's death wishDec 12, 2011 4:00 am - “Anybody but Mitt” has become a familiar mantra throughout the Republican primary campaign. It is also weird and self-defeating. Republicans apparently want to nominate...
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Fighting for the women of AfghanistanDec 12, 2011 4:00 am - Gulnaz is an Afghan woman who was raped. For reporting it, she was sentenced to three years in prison. Her baby — a child of the rape — cries in the background. Her puni...
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Epiphany about Blago: Read this to understand the manDec 11, 2011 10:00 pm - Everybody missed it at the time. Buried in all the festivities surrounding Rod Blagojevich's 14-year prison sentence, there was an epiphany. Not an Epiphany with a capit...