Opinion Columns
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A risky move for a rising GOP starMar 28, 2011 12:00 am - It would be hard to find two more compelling, formidable women in American public life than South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley and fellow South Carolinian and philanthropis...
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The delicacies of getting into collegeMar 26, 2011 12:00 am - For many families, this is March madness — the moment of high anxiety concerning higher education as many colleges announce their admittance decisions. It is the culmina...
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Women as ‘targets’ and the fight backMar 26, 2011 12:00 am - Someone is giving the university I love a bad name. An e-mail purportedly written by a member of Kappa Sigma fraternity at USC has gone viral. The idea is that women ar...
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Ignoring the useful tyrantsMar 25, 2011 12:00 am - Anyone looking for principle and logic in the attack on Moammar Gadhafi's tyrannical regime will be disappointed. President Obama and his advisers should acknowledge the...
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War No. 3 and Obama's muddled policyMar 25, 2011 12:00 am - Libya's recently resigned ambassador to the U.S., Ali Aujali, is optimistic about the outcome of the bombing of his country. He tells me he thinks dictator Moammar Gadha...
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The madness of slamming midnight basketballMar 23, 2011 12:00 am - Eighteen years ago, “midnight basketball” was the big har-har-har on the conservative talk circuit. It was a federal program that sought to coax young men off the late-n...
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A food fight over English-onlyMar 23, 2011 12:00 am - Today’s quintessential American melting-pot story comes to you courtesy of Greg Simons, the proprietor of the Reedy Creek Family Diner in Lexington, N.C., who put a sign...
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Scrubbing the world’s blemishesMar 22, 2011 12:00 am - The missile strikes that inaugurated America’s latest attempt at regime change were launched 29 days before the 50th anniversary of another such — the Bay of Pigs of Apr...
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The Berle Doctrine of mixed signalsMar 22, 2011 12:00 am - In the Oval Office, President Obama keeps busts of his heroes — Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King Jr. He should add one of Milton Berle, the so-called Mr. Televisio...
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Heroes in the waiting roomMar 21, 2011 2:00 am - For two days, I have been sitting with men and women in skimpy gowns — and even skimpy shorts — many of them literally afraid for their lives. There we were, our breasts...