Opinion Columns
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Paul vs. PasteurJul 05, 2011 9:00 pm - Speaking recently to the Republican Leadership Conference, Rep. Ron Paul raised an overlooked issue in American politics. The federal government, he warned, is imposing ...
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Sex, drugs and minefields of conjectureJul 05, 2011 3:00 am - Sometimes fiction can’t improve on life. Case in point: The unfolding saga of the immigrant hotel housekeeper allegedly raped by the wealthy French international banker ...
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Obama’s ‘mission accomplished’Jul 05, 2011 3:00 am - By DANA MILBANK There was no banner, no naval cheering section, no aircraft-carrier landing and — thank heavens — no flight suit. But make no mistake: President Obama ga...
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Self-promotion disguised as sacrificeJul 04, 2011 3:00 am - In retelling last week's revelation that Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas is an illegal immigrant, civil rights metaphors have been trotted out to d...
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Yes, let government control medical costsJul 04, 2011 3:00 am - “Centralizers,” a conservative wrote disapprovingly in Reason magazine, “say that the responsibility for making tough decisions about how to keep health care costs under...
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Don’t make the economy worseJul 03, 2011 12:00 am - There is no good reason for negotiations on the budget and the debt ceiling to be deadlocked, because the solution is obvious: First, do no harm. The Hippocratic injunc...
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First Amendment showdown on campaign financeJul 03, 2011 12:00 am - The fate of Arizona’s Clean Elections Act, which the Supreme Court last week declared unconstitutional, was foreshadowed March 28, during oral arguments. Lawyers defend...
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Obama’s economic irrelevanceJul 01, 2011 3:00 am - If there is a single moment that symbolizes President Obama’s dramatically altered re-election prospects, it was his visit to a Jeep plant in Toledo on June 3. Obama’s r...
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Go MicheleJul 01, 2011 3:00 am - For a Democrat, it’s too good to be true. Michele Bachmann and Mitt Romney running neck and neck in Iowa. Romney having to worry about the one in five who won’t vote for...
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Church leader perfect fit as jury forewomanJul 01, 2011 3:00 am - For a short time, she was known to the world as Juror No. 146, forewoman of the jury that convicted former governor Rod Blagojevich of a boatload of criminal charges. In...