Froma Harrop
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Froma can’t speak for rest of usSep 26, 2012 4:40 am - This letter is in regard to Froma Harrop’s column in the Sept. 11 edition of the Daily Herald in which she claimed to be better off than she was four years ago. Ms. Harr...
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When blue-collar whites turned RepublicanSep 25, 2012 5:00 am - Liberals strain to understand why so many blue-collar whites have made their home in the Republican Party. Yes, the GOP better connects with this group on social and lif...
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Buckle up for the robot revolutionSep 21, 2012 5:00 am - Robots don’t take bathroom breaks, and that’s one reason why, all else being equal, they may make better factory workers than the human version. But all else is getting ...
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Close the mortgage-deduction loopholeSep 16, 2012 5:00 am - Letting homeowners deduct interest paid on their mortgages from taxable income makes no sense. It encourages taking on more debt, discriminates against renters, subsidiz...
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Better off than 4 years ago? I’d say so.Sep 11, 2012 5:00 am - Are you better off today than you were four years ago? Ronald Reagan’s 1980 campaign zinger is back in 2012. Let’s see. Four years ago ... four years ago. That was Sept...
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Profitability and insuring the elderlySep 05, 2012 5:00 am - Those who liken the health plan for government employees to the Republican plan for moving Medicare to private insurers miss a significant difference: the patients. The...
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Bad immigration ideas from all directionsSep 03, 2012 5:00 am - No balanced talk of immigration reform is expected before the November election. But that need not stop the airing of proposals, some of them semi-formed, some half-bake...
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Bush not in Tampa, but his ideas areAug 29, 2012 5:00 am - The name of George W. Bush graces no chair at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla. The 43rd president left behind monumental deficits and an economy in tatt...
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The delusions in Ryan’s Medicare visionAug 24, 2012 5:00 am - Paul Ryan has bold economic ideas. Or maybe he doesn’t. It’s really hard to know what Mitt Romney’s VP pick thinks, since his budget plan includes Obamacare’s $716 billi...
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Outsourcing moralizing to liberalsAug 16, 2012 1:44 pm - It’s a given in many conservative circles that the rise of single-parent families is the biggest cause of increasing economic inequality and that liberals are to blame. ...