Richard Cohen
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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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Nuclear threat makes this story differentMay 20, 2009 11:00 pm - In 1947, a British lawyer with no experience in the region arrived in India to draw lines on a map. Within several weeks, Cyril Radcliffe had severed the future Pakistan...
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Cheney might be right about torture, safetyMay 12, 2009 11:00 pm - Blogger Alert: I have a written a column in defense of Dick Cheney. I know how upsetting this will be to some Cheney critics, and I count myself as one, who think that e...
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This litmus test is one that would countMay 05, 2009 11:00 pm - As the time approaches for President Obama to choose a successor to Justice David Souter, the term "litmus test" will be heard throughout the land. The White House will ...
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Torture of enemies also tortures the lawApr 28, 2009 11:00 pm - On April 16, President Obama released the now-infamous torture memos along with a covering statement that said the CIA's old interrogation methods not only failed to "ma...
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Hamas tactics were those of thugsApr 22, 2009 11:00 pm - Some residents of Gaza were taken from their homes and shot in the legs or feet. Some were brutally beaten and some were simply murdered, sometimes after hideous torture...
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Bush sure left a Texas-sized legacyApr 14, 2009 11:00 pm - Bush's tenure was truly remarkable. He left office with the lowest poll ratings in 60 years, two wars begun and not ended, and the deepest recession since the Great Depr...
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Sacrificing wealth to serve in governmentApr 09, 2009 11:00 pm - The recent headlines about Lawrence Summers had it all wrong. They announced with an implied breathlessness that he earned around $8 million last year - much of it from ...
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Bankruptcy, not bailout, pleaseApr 06, 2009 11:00 pm - When I was around 12, I was a paperboy for the now-defunct Long Island Press. One Thursday, when the paper was heavy with shopping inserts, a storm hit, and my papers an...
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What kind of change is this? Not.Mar 25, 2009 11:00 pm - It is still early, not even two-thirds of the way through the vaunted 100 days, and we are all admonished not to make judgments or dire predictions. Yet enough has been ...