Articles filed under Commentary
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Looking for identity in a nameMar 22, 2012 1:00 am - What’s in a name? Most of us, perhaps regrettably, do not get to select our own names and are saddled with our parents’ projections of what we might be. It is entertaini...
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The long and short of Israel’s dilemmaMar 21, 2012 1:00 am - Nations have doctrines. The Soviet Union had the Brezhnev Doctrine and the United States had the Monroe Doctrine, among others. Even little Israel has one. I call it th...
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High-flying corporate welfareMar 21, 2012 1:00 am - Sallie James was born in Australia on July 4, 1976, which suggests that Providence planned what happened 30 years later: She moved to Washington. She studies trade polic...
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Seaweed in your gas tankMar 20, 2012 5:00 am - Yes, of course, presidents have no direct control over gas prices. But the American people know something about this president and his disdain for oil. The “fuel of the ...
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What now for Republicans?Mar 19, 2012 5:00 am - Rick Santorum deserves credit for his impressive primary victories in Mississippi and Alabama. Newt Gingrich led us to believe he would win both states. He didn’t, but h...
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Rising gas prices don’t hurt like they used toMar 19, 2012 5:00 am - Here’s why I’m not panicked about rising gasoline prices, as many headlines suggest we all should be. It’s a personal story. Let me start at the beginning. The automotiv...
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Deported, and now childlessMar 18, 2012 5:00 am - Wasteful, senseless and cruel. How better to describe the ridiculous battle that Felipe Montes is waging to be reunited with his three U.S.-born children? Since his depo...
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Catholics, contraceptives and John LockeMar 18, 2012 5:00 am - It is extraordinary how far some will go to knit the random scraps and patches of events into the quilt of a narrative. So the Susan B. Komen controversy, resistance to ...
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After Snowe, is Brown next?Mar 16, 2012 1:00 am - To many New Englanders, Olympia Snowe had come to resemble Marilyn of “The Munsters” TV family. The senator from Maine seemed a normal Northeast Republican surrounded by...
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Those pesky things called lawsMar 16, 2012 1:00 am - Two policies of the Obama administration illustrate an axiom: As government expands, its lawfulness contracts. Consider the administration’s desire to continue funding ...