Articles filed under Commentary
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Gutting the DREAM ActFeb 13, 2012 4:00 am - During one of the Republican debates in Florida, Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney agreed that the only way they’d support the DREAM Act is to take out the educational compo...
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Romney’s overriding ambitionFeb 11, 2012 11:00 pm - Criticism of Mitt Romney for lacking a coherent message is grossly unfair. He has been forthright, consistent and even eloquent in pressing home his campaign’s central t...
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The gospel according to ObamaFeb 11, 2012 11:00 pm - At the National Prayer Breakfast last week, seeking theological underpinning for his drive to raise taxes on the rich, President Obama invoked the highest possible autho...
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GOP’s murky rhetoric on national defenseFeb 10, 2012 4:00 am - Through 11 presidential elections, beginning with the Democrats’ nomination of George McGovern in 1972, Republicans have enjoyed a presumption of superiority regarding n...
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Chasing equalityFeb 10, 2012 4:00 am - Tuesday’s ruling by a panel of three judges of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit holding unconstitutional the California ballot initiative that ai...
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On Lech Walesa Day in Illinois, follow example of freedomFeb 09, 2012 4:00 am - “We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.” -- Lech Walesa, former president of Poland, founder of Solidarity, 1983 No...
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GOP must fight the fudge with real numbersFeb 09, 2012 4:00 am - The Obama administration is touting the latest unemployment numbers released last week by the U.S. Department of Labor as proof its policies are working. But a closer lo...
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What Komen affair means for NovemberFeb 08, 2012 4:00 am - The blowup at Susan G. Komen for the Cure set off a political alarm that Republicans dare not ignore. The leading breast cancer group, Komen tried playing Republican-bas...
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Obama’s assault on the poorFeb 08, 2012 4:00 am - Some issues fade; others fester. The Obama administration’s contraceptive mandate on religious charities, hospitals and universities is the festering kind. The initial r...
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Romney’s indifference to the poorFeb 07, 2012 4:00 am - I wish Mitt Romney’s cavalier dismissal of poverty in America could be chalked up as just another gaffe, but it’s much worse than that. The Republican front-runner seems...