Articles filed under Commentary
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Closing young Americans’ mindsApr 08, 2012 5:00 am - Let me apologize for the language I’m about to employ in this column. It’s not every day that I feel so strongly about something that I have to use so many controversial...
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Romney veep pick? A heavy hitterApr 07, 2012 4:14 pm - Barack Obama’s intellectual sociopathy — his often breezy and sometimes loutish indifference to truth — should no longer startle. It should, however, influence Mitt Romn...
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He’ll still be the Mitt we knowApr 05, 2012 2:40 pm - The problem for Mitt Romney, assuming he eventually wins the GOP nomination, is that a general election campaign isn’t really like an Etch a Sketch. Alas, traces from th...
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The drug legalization dilemmaApr 05, 2012 5:00 am - The human nervous system interacts in pleasing and addictive ways with certain molecules derived from some plants, which is why humans may have developed beer before the...
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Does Romney Have a Home?Apr 03, 2012 5:00 am - Mitt Romney has three houses. The former Massachusetts governor would like to do a $12 million “fix-up” on one of them, a beachfront property in La Jolla, Calif. The pla...
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Justice in Florida must wait for the factsApr 03, 2012 5:00 am - There are so many appalling aspects to the Trayvon Martin case that it’s hard to find a permanent home for outrage. Most appalling, obviously, is the fatal shooting of ...
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The price if health care is overturnedApr 03, 2012 5:00 am - In arguments before the Supreme Court this week, the Obama administration might have done just enough to keep the Affordable Care Act from being ruled unconstitutional. ...
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The ‘flexibility’ doctrineApr 02, 2012 5:00 am - “On all these issues, but particularly missile defense, this can be solved, but it’s important for him (Putin) to give me space. ... After my election, I have more flexi...
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Politics among the justicesApr 02, 2012 5:00 am - As was clear in this week’s arguments on the constitutionality of the health care reform law, today’s Supreme Court is as political as any institution in Washington. It ...
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Deluding ourselves on medical ‘cures’Apr 01, 2012 5:00 am - I’m glad I’m not the only one whose blood pressure rises every time a quick fix to a complex, multilayered medical conundrum spreads through the media despite researcher...