Opinion Columns
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Arizona proving itself to be the state of hypocrisyApr 19, 2010 11:00 pm - In the late 1990s, I took a job writing for a newspaper and moved to Arizona. At least I think it was Arizona. The place I remember bears little resemblance to the one ...
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One condition for value-added taxApr 19, 2010 11:00 pm - When liberals advocate a value-added tax, conservatives should respond: Taxing consumption has merits, so we will consider it - after the 16th Amendment is repealed. A ...
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A 30 and out retirement plan? HardlyApr 18, 2010 11:00 pm - This symbol: - 30 - is something you will never see at the beginning of a new story. For generations of reporters, it signified the end of a story they had written. Most...
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Nuclear posturing, part deuxApr 18, 2010 11:00 pm - There was something oddly disproportionate about the just-concluded nuclear summit to which President Obama summoned 46 world leaders, the largest such gathering on Amer...
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Pigs at the troughApr 17, 2010 11:00 pm - Most Americans may not be fluent in the language of economics, but thanks to our Puritan heritage ("waste not, want not") we understand waste quite well. The annual ritu...
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First the Ike, then North Avenue, then Roosevelt ...Apr 15, 2010 11:00 pm - Warning. Warning. Danger. Danger. Crazed editor's summertime traffic rant approaching. Call me naive or stupid or both, but a few months ago, I thought maybe this would ...
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A sprig of verbenaApr 15, 2010 11:00 pm - One of President Obama's consistent education themes has been the wish that every child cross paths with that one teacher who hits the light switch and changes one's lif...
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No (political) experience requiredApr 14, 2010 11:00 pm - Stiffening their sinews and summoning up their blood, pugnacious liberals and conservatives who relish contemporary Washington's recurring Armageddons are eager for a su...
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Ignoring America's slaveholding pastApr 14, 2010 11:00 pm - It was bad enough when Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell proclaimed "Confederate History Month" without mentioning slavery, but at least he came to his senses and apologized. ...
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The next in(justice)Apr 13, 2010 11:00 pm - Wouldn't it be nice (as the Beach Boys sang in a completely different context) if once, just once, a liberal Democrat president nominated to the Supreme Court someone he...