Opinion Columns
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Lacking a Bush gauge, Obama's popularity fallsJun 20, 2009 11:00 pm - In a conversation the other day with a White House official, I heard something I'd never expected from an employee of Barack Obama's. "I wish," he said, "George Bush wou...
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Heavy lifters for a health billJun 18, 2009 11:00 pm - Fifteen years ago, when Democratic Sen. Tom Daschle was running interference for the Clintons' effort at health care reform, his goal in life was to enlist Sen. Bob Dole...
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Burned by tobacco legislation againJun 18, 2009 11:00 pm - Politicians have extraordinary shoulder joints that enable them to pat themselves on the back, and last week the president performed it in the Rose Garden. His subject w...
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Put medical culture in tune with callingJun 18, 2009 11:00 pm - There will be time to talk about costs and coverage, about public and private plans, about reasoning and rationing in health-care reform. So the president began this wee...
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Two Zahras shine light on women's rightsJun 17, 2009 11:00 pm - There's a "new" old name suddenly in circulation that is both filled with ancient history and ripe with a revolutionary spirit for today's game-changing events. Zahra. W...
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Schwarzenegger stands up for LatinosJun 16, 2009 11:00 pm - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has been taking a beating for recent comments intended to force Californians to stop blaming illegal immigrants for the state's budget crisis....
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What about anti-semitism is mainstream?Jun 16, 2009 11:00 pm - To more people than we like to admit, the mystery of James W. von Brunn, the alleged shooter at the Holocaust Memorial Museum, is not that he held weird and depraved vie...
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Sounds like an end run on free speechJun 14, 2009 11:00 pm - For several decades, most of the ingenuity that liberal academics have invested in First Amendment analysis has aimed to justify limiting the core activity that the amen...
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Identical wakes for McNamee twins, 22 years apartJun 14, 2009 11:00 pm - Although it is difficult to remember what I did last Tuesday, I distinctly remember where I was 22 years ago last Tuesday. I was standing on a tree-shrouded driveway off...
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Obama faces high stakes this fallJun 13, 2009 11:00 pm - It was probably inevitable that the elections for governor, taking place in November in New Jersey and Virginia, would be seen by many people outside those states as a r...