Richard Cohen
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A commandant out of stepDec 20, 2010 10:00 pm - I am a fan of the old World War II movies, the ones where the platoon was composed of typical Americans, Hollywood-style. There was a guy named Farmer and one called Pre...
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Respect China but not its brutal oppressionDec 13, 2010 10:00 pm - One of the more frightening aspects of China's persecution of Liu Xiaobo, the imprisoned dissident and this year's Nobel Peace Prize winner, is that the government never...
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When transparency can do damageDec 08, 2010 12:00 am - The first WikiLeaks moment occurred on Jan. 17, 1998. It was then that Matt Drudge reported that Bill Clinton had had an affair with a White House intern. The story, tho...
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After WikiLeaks, Bush should rethink book tourNov 30, 2010 10:00 pm - Say what you want about WikiLeaks -- and I don't much like what it has done -- it nevertheless would be useful for its founder, Julian Assange, to follow George W. Bush ...
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Faces for a deadly productNov 15, 2010 10:00 pm - With apologies to Jonathan Swift, I have a modest proposal of my own. Instead of the government requiring cigarette packs and cartons to feature large warning labels des...
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Boehner, GOP sick with chronic irrationalityNov 08, 2010 10:00 pm - With a John Boehner speakership fast approaching, I dutifully read up on the man. I learned he is a Midwestern fellow, one of 12 siblings and a man whose early career wa...
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Anger hanging in the vaporsOct 26, 2010 11:00 pm - The tea party has no leader. It has no address, no phone and no Washington headquarters. It is everywhere and nowhere. For Barack Obama, the tea party is the quintessent...
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Punish crime, not thoughtOct 18, 2010 11:00 pm - NEW YORK — Last April, Christine Quinn, speaker of New York's City Council, honored members of the police department's Hate Crimes Task Force and jokingly said she looke...
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Ghost of Carter realism haunts Obama's successOct 11, 2010 11:00 pm - Almost like an apparition, Jimmy Carter stalks Barack Obama. The former president has published yet another book, his 25th, which has been greeted with some scorn and pl...
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Striking out on settlementsSep 28, 2010 11:00 pm - Every so often, the sayings of Casey Stengel come to mind. The longtime manager of the New York Yankees, accustomed to a Prussian professionalism in the hitting and fiel...