Articles filed under Commentary
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Are some in GOP ready to deal on taxes?Jul 23, 2012 5:00 am - Nowadays, few politicians will stray from party orthodoxy without also taking unfair whacks at the opposition. Sen. Tom Coburn, Republican from Oklahoma, is braver and m...
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The antidote to getting dumberJul 22, 2012 5:00 am - Few instances are more refreshing than the sound of a politician leaving office. This isn’t because we want to see them go, necessarily (though this, too, can be delici...
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Our politics of polarizationJul 20, 2012 5:00 am - As his campaign threw out unsubstantiated charges that Mitt Romney might be guilty of a felony, and then mocked Romney’s off-key singing of “America the Beautiful,” Pres...
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The 33rd time aroundJul 19, 2012 5:00 am - Earlier this month, the House of Representatives, in a colossal waste of time, voted for the 33rd time to repeal President Obama's health care plan. Going into the vote...
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Emanuel’s about-face on immigrationJul 19, 2012 5:00 am - How’s this for a role reversal? When Rahm Emanuel was in Congress and later as White House chief of staff, he protected fellow Democrats by steering the party’s agenda ...
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The GOP’s crime against votersJul 19, 2012 5:00 am - Spare us any more hooey about “preventing fraud” and “protecting the integrity of the ballot box.” The Republican-led crusade for voter ID laws is revealed as a cynical ...
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On seeing and believing both sidesJul 19, 2012 5:00 am - Editor’s note: Longtime Washington Post columnist William Raspberry died Tuesday at 76. He wrote this column in 2005 shortly before his retirement. I’ll breeze right pa...
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Harry Reid and the race cardJul 18, 2012 10:55 am - Let’s peek into the kindergarten classroom known as the U.S. Senate, where mischievous Harry Reid is playing with his colors again. What if everything that Americans th...
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The Stossel solutionJul 18, 2012 5:00 am - In order to get the correct answer to anything, one must ask the right question. That is what former ABC News and current Fox News TV host John Stossel does on his weekl...
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A debate we shouldn’t be havingJul 18, 2012 5:00 am - To fully appreciate how silly the presidential campaign has become, envision a robot doing the job of a displaced American worker instead of the low-wage laborer abroad ...