Articles filed under Commentary
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Romney does it againAug 06, 2012 5:00 am - Last spring, when he was ever so carefully seeking the Republican nomination, Mitt Romney’s scripted, straight-from-the-briefing-book style made him a favorite of the co...
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In the company of MadisonAug 05, 2012 5:00 am - Ted Cruz’s victory in Tuesday’s Texas Republican runoff for the U.S. Senate nomination is the most impressive triumph yet for the still-strengthening tea party impulse. ...
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Romney’s message of strength in PolandAug 03, 2012 5:00 am - The same week that President Obama’s health regulations go into effect, forcing people of faith to violate their conscience or shut their doors, Mitt Romney was preachin...
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Politically and otherwise, the Mountain West swingsAug 03, 2012 5:00 am - DENVER — When the sun goes down, the new Mountain West comes out swinging. Denver’s Larimer Square and LoDo (Lower Downtown) district turns into a multicultural Mixmaste...
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The worthwhile risk of taking a discomforting callAug 02, 2012 5:00 am - You never know in this job who you’re going to be talking to when you pick up the telephone, caller ID or no caller ID. It may be a cantankerous old curmudgeon, angry be...
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Busted: Mr. Pfeiffer and the White House BlogAug 01, 2012 5:00 am - Shortly after 9/11, President George W. Bush received from Prime Minister Tony Blair a bust of Winston Churchill as an expression of British-American solidarity. Bush ga...
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The right’s blind eye on government spendingAug 01, 2012 5:00 am - My boyhood friend Jack became a doctor -- and a conservative. He had gone to public schools, attended college with the help of a government scholarship, went to medical ...
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Suppose Michele Bachmann is right about Islamic infiltrationJul 30, 2012 11:35 am - Like the ghosts of Shakespeare’s Banquo or Dickens’ Jacob Marley, the specter of the late commie-hunting congressman from Wisconsin, Joseph McCarthy, will always be with...
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Leviathan on a government fishing expeditionJul 30, 2012 11:34 am - SAN FRANCISCO — The huge humpback whale whose friendliness precipitated a surreal seven-year — so far — federal hunt for criminality surely did not feel put upon. Nevert...
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Where Is Baltimore?Jul 30, 2012 5:00 am - I did something so unusual last week as to trigger the “fraud” section at my credit card company to freeze my account. No, I didn't walk into a Tiffany's somewhere and t...