Opinion Columns
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National Health Service: It's coming to AmericaJul 29, 2010 11:00 pm - PORTSTEWART, Northern Ireland - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid told a group of liberal activists meeting in Las Vegas they shouldn't worry about not getting the singl...
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Dr. Donald Berwick, taxpayer money saving heroJul 29, 2010 11:00 pm - Welcome, Dr. Donald Berwick. Once you pull the arrows out of your back, you can get down to the important work for which you are supremely qualified: fixing the governme...
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Some calls are bleepin' tough to make, some notJul 28, 2010 11:00 pm - The late George Carlin liked to say that "there are no bad words," only bad uses of words. I'm inclined to agree, though I would add there are certainly bad times to use...
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The states as an electoral barometerJul 27, 2010 11:00 pm - In this high-stakes election of 2010, much attention naturally focuses on Republican efforts to come back in Congress and the Democrats' drive to retain their large majo...
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Telling us the obviousJul 27, 2010 11:00 pm - The news in that massive data dump provided by the dauntingly mysterious Wikileaks (who? what?) to one American and two European publications is that there is no news at...
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Living with the folks and holding outJul 26, 2010 11:00 pm - A few years ago, before the current recession took hold, I was speaking to a group of high school students and wound up being given a pop quiz. I assured my audience th...
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Guilty or not, why Rod really was Tony SopranoJul 25, 2010 11:00 pm - Even if he had shown up wearing a cheetah print miniskirt and Parisian stilettos, the former governor of Illinois wouldn't have been as conspicuous in federal court as h...
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Outsourcing governmentJul 25, 2010 11:00 pm - In another country also called America, there were no credit cards and excessive debt was seen as a character flaw. In that America, my grandparents and their parents ha...
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Using race to smear ObamaJul 24, 2010 11:00 pm - After the Shirley Sherrod episode, there's no longer any need to mince words: A cynical right-wing propaganda machine is peddling the poisonous fiction that when African...
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Beware the lame duckJul 24, 2010 11:00 pm - Barack Obama's considerable political capital, earned on Election Day 2008, is spent. Well spent, mind you, on the enactment of a highly ideological agenda of Obamacare,...