Opinion Columns
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Will the grown-ups step up?Mar 28, 2010 11:00 pm - Let's not pretend anymore that the tea party movement is harmless. The right to protest is one of our cherished American freedoms. But there is no right to vandalism, no...
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Guts and gloryMar 27, 2010 11:00 pm - No Republicans supported Medicare in the House of Representatives until it reached the floor. It came out of the House Ways and Means and Rules committees on strict part...
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Now comes ThermidorMar 27, 2010 11:00 pm - "And everybody praised the Duke, Who this great fight did win." "But what good came of it at last?" Quoth little Peterkin. "Why that I cannot tell," said he, "But 'twas ...
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European-style sales tax on its wayMar 25, 2010 11:00 pm - As the night follows the day, the VAT cometh. With the passage of Obamacare, creating a vast new middle-class entitlement, a national sales tax of the kind near-univers...
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Still waiting for answer on that layoff thingMar 25, 2010 11:00 pm - I'd like to apologize for our failure to report one of the biggest stories of the year: the complete breakdown for more than a week of all electronic communications devi...
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A pretense masquerading as a virtueMar 24, 2010 11:00 pm - Stupak. Etymology: Eponym for Congressman Bart Stupak. Function: verb 1: In a legislative process, to obstruct passage of a proposed law on the basis of a moral principl...
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Decline of U.S. health care has begunMar 23, 2010 11:00 pm - Pork is the preferred metaphor in Washington for misspending. But last weekend, pork took a back seat to baloney, which was present in abundance as President Obama and H...
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The Biden incidentMar 22, 2010 11:00 pm - Why did President Barack Obama choose to turn a gaffe into a crisis in U.S.-Israeli relations? And a gaffe it was: the announcement by a bureaucrat in the Interior Mini...
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Move politics aside to fix immigrationMar 22, 2010 11:00 pm - The immigration debate is back. And it's hard to find anyone who is pleased to see it return. Not Democrats, who see the immigration issue as one that divides their par...
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On compassion, we're catching upMar 22, 2010 11:00 pm - Mitch McConnell is right. The Republican Senate leader, a man whose vision is to deny others theirs, told The New York Times that President Obama's health care proposal ...