Articles filed under Commentary
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Standing up for teachersSep 19, 2012 5:00 am - Teachers are heroes, not villains, and it’s time to stop demonizing them. It has become fashionable to blame all of society’s manifold sins and wickedness on “teachers u...
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The tangled web of conflicting rightsSep 18, 2012 5:00 am - Elaine Huguenin, who with her husband operates Elane Photography in New Mexico, asks only to be let alone. But instead of being allowed a reasonable zone of sovereignty ...
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In it for himself or for America?Sep 18, 2012 5:00 am - You’d think, after nearly a lifetime in politics, which began as a little girl starting petitions, I would have figured out how to respond to a tragedy. You’d think I’d ...
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We’ll never agree — and that’s fineSep 17, 2012 5:00 am - The conventional wisdom has settled on the subject of this year’s presidential campaign: it’s about the proper role of government in our nation’s life. This is a good ar...
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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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parker.clm 0917Sep 14, 2012 6:16 pm - “This time, the imbeciles have won.” That was the assessment of French philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy in his remembrance of U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens. And h...
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The abandonment of IsraelSep 14, 2012 11:41 am - There are two positions one can take regarding the Iranian nuclear program: (a) it doesn’t matter, we can deter them, or (b) it does matter, we must stop them. In my vi...
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Post conventions, focus is on turnoutSep 14, 2012 5:00 am - The national party conventions are over and the real presidential campaign has begun — meaning enormous amounts of money are now being spent on partisan television ads i...
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Romney’s health care ditherSep 13, 2012 11:18 am - I’m trying to figure out just where Mitt Romney stands on health care reform. Obviously, so is Mitt Romney. In an interview broadcast Sunday on “Meet the Press,” I thou...
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New language might have helped tame the Old WestSep 13, 2012 5:00 am - I’m sure it must have been a dream. I was a young writer fresh from J-school and heard about the trouble in Shinbone. I strode into the newspaper office and got the atte...