Articles filed under Commentary
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Moving beyond generic RepublicanismJul 17, 2012 5:00 am - On economic policy, Barack Obama has left Mitt Romney an opening. The president has responded to a severe, continuing labor market slump with a 4-year-old, marginally co...
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The worst financial scandal yet?Jul 17, 2012 5:00 am - If only one in four American adults can name his or her U.S. senators, we can assume that even fewer know what Libor is. Libor (pronounced lie-bor) is at the center of a...
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Joe Pa’s shameJul 16, 2012 5:00 am - Outside the Penn State football stadium stands a statue of legendary coach Joe Paterno, his arm raised in victory. Right next to it, university officials should erect an...
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Trolling for boosJul 16, 2012 5:00 am - We’re still a few weeks from summer’s dog days and the conventions, and already feral rabidity has set in. Add to the long list of psycho-political syndromes the “Romney...
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Trouble in the middleJul 15, 2012 5:00 am - A study out this week by the liberal Center for American Progress found that kids in the middle don’t think school is challenging enough. That’s right: According to the ...
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The Islamist ascendancyJul 13, 2012 3:37 pm - Post-revolutionary Libya appears to have elected a relatively moderate pro-Western government. Good news, but tentative because Libya is less a country than an oil well ...
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The numbers gameJul 13, 2012 5:00 am - President Obama’s attempt to spin the latest discouraging unemployment numbers as “a step in the right direction” is like telling passengers aboard the Titanic to ignore...
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Where they play, rich conservatives like zoningJul 12, 2012 10:10 am - Last weekend’s memorable photo is of Mitt Romney driving his massive powerboat past a privately built castle, not unlike his own, on New Hampshire’s Lake Winnipesaukee. ...
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In ‘rough draft,’ we err on the side of inclusionJul 12, 2012 10:10 am - The newspaper is sometimes called a rough draft of history. In that sense, the Letters to the Editor column, or Fence Post in the Daily Herald, can be very much like a r...
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Obama in denialJul 11, 2012 5:39 pm - One would think, given so much practice, that the Obama White House would have been better prepared for last week’s wretched jobs report. Instead, we witnessed the five ...