Opinion Columns
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The unknown heroes hiding among usAug 06, 2011 3:00 am - I had dinner last week with a friend whose name, for reasons that will be obvious, I can’t say. I can’t say exactly where he works or what he does. When I ask his wife a...
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Praying for the right (or left) resultAug 05, 2011 3:00 am - Texas Republican governor and potential presidential candidate Rick Perry will headline a “Call to Prayer for a Nation in Crisis” on Aug. 6 at Reliant Stadium in Houston...
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Unmet needs of a ‘model’ minorityAug 05, 2011 3:00 am - They are known among educators as the “model minority” — the “good students” with disproportionately high enrollment in elite universities, often to study science, techn...
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A clarifying debateAug 04, 2011 12:00 am - The story is that as Mark Twain and novelist William Dean Howells stepped outside one morning, a downpour began and Howells asked Twain, “Do you think it will stop?” Twa...
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Democrats also need a presidential primary in 2012Aug 04, 2011 12:00 am - Ed Rendell, do you have plans for 2012? Hillary Clinton? If you, the former Democratic governor of Pennsylvania, or you, the secretary of state, are free next year and w...
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Too dysfunctional to leadAug 03, 2011 3:00 am - Over lunch with columnists a month ago, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid precisely predicted the future course of the debt-limit debate. Democrats, he said, would not a...
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A hold-your-nose deal on debtAug 03, 2011 3:00 am - It’s supremely galling. It’s unbalanced, unfair and mostly unwise. For President Obama and the Democratic Party, it’s a comprehensive defeat. But it’s not the end of the...
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Green with tea party envyAug 02, 2011 12:00 am - I suffer from tea party envy. There is little about the actual party I like and there are some members I abhor, but I am jealous of its sense of purpose, its determinati...
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The great divideJul 31, 2011 5:00 am - We’re in the midst of a great four-year national debate on the size and reach of government, the future of the welfare state, indeed, the nature of the social contract b...
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The power of the Big IdeaJul 31, 2011 5:00 am - Those who would chronicle events in Washington can find no richer source of analogy and metaphor than the Three Stooges. These days, I’m thinking of the times when an ex...