Opinion Columns
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Wrong signal from DemocratsNov 17, 2010 10:00 pm - When the rules of the House of Representatives forced the Democrats to confront a painful choice among their leaders, they did what Democrats are often inclined to do. T...
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Deficit plan offers liberals much to likeNov 17, 2010 10:00 pm - Many liberals went bananas over the new plan to reduce deficits. The ideas put forth by the chairmen of President Obama's bipartisan deficit commission ignore their prio...
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Our correspondent in Afghanistan gives us a scareNov 17, 2010 10:00 pm - In hindsight, perhaps the title line of my e-mail to my co-workers wasn't the wisest choice. “Matt Spartz,” it read. Marie Wilson, one of our newest reporters, opened th...
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Defense trims: Why not?Nov 16, 2010 10:00 pm - I come not to bury the manifesto issued last week by President Obama's debt-reduction commission, but to praise the most welcome of its ideas: Slash defense spending alo...
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GOP would be wise to listen to PalinNov 16, 2010 10:00 pm - I promised myself that I'd stop defending Sarah Palin. But it's a hard habit to break. While I found the former Alaska governor refreshing during the 2008 presidential ...
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Faces for a deadly productNov 15, 2010 10:00 pm - With apologies to Jonathan Swift, I have a modest proposal of my own. Instead of the government requiring cigarette packs and cartons to feature large warning labels des...
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Ignoring the joy of individual libertyNov 15, 2010 10:00 pm - “Everybody in Vanity Fair must have remarked how well those live who are comfortably and thoroughly in debt; how they deny themselves nothing; how jolly and easy the...
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Our rawest moments recorded foreverNov 14, 2010 10:00 pm - I can't quite remember certain things that happened in college, particularly during my junior year “abroad” at Dartmouth. I'm sure some of that is age (in this case, a r...
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A bold, necessary step toward economic sanityNov 14, 2010 10:00 pm - What Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson have given America is the equivalent of a cold shower after a night of heavy drinking. It's sober-up time. The co-chairmen of the pr...
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Trial reveals 'Mad Sam' as patron saint of new OutfitNov 13, 2010 10:00 pm - The Chicago Mob was just way ahead of its time. Long before “Mad Men” started racking up TV's Emmy Awards, the Outfit had its own leading mad man. Samuel “Mad Sam” DeSt...