Articles filed under Commentary
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Europe’s irrepressible conflictDec 28, 2011 4:00 am - Oh, how I love humanity, With love so pure and pringlish, And how I hate the horrid French, Who never will be English! #8212; G.K. Chesterton Under ...
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As this end nears, guard your checkbookDec 27, 2011 11:00 pm - According to the Mayan “long count” calendar, the final day on Earth is less than a year away, on Dec. 21, 2012. While we wait to see if that apocalypse occurs, a more r...
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Realities on the road to the nominationDec 27, 2011 4:00 am - The Gingrich balloon is leaking air. He is beginning to look more and more like Howard Dean. The latest Rasmussen caucus poll shows him dropping three points behind Mitt...
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The greatest gift for the unemployedDec 26, 2011 5:00 am - To many rational economists, holiday gift-giving is “an orgy of wealth-destruction,” writes Dan Ariely in The Wall Street Journal. A behavioral economist at Duke Univers...
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Have a politically correct holiday season!Dec 26, 2011 5:00 am - Here we are, uncomfortably sandwiched between Christmas and New Year’s Eve, which, according to top officials at PC Police Headquarters, are the two most politically inc...
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The GOP’s payroll tax debacleDec 26, 2011 5:00 am - Now that Congress appears finally to have reached a compromise on what must be one of the worst pieces of legislation in years — the temporary payroll tax holiday extens...
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The case for wonderDec 25, 2011 5:08 am - The God particle — really the Higgs boson — still resists confirmation, though scientists at the Large Hadron Collider recently reported “tantalizing hints” of its exist...
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Remember the grieving at ChristmasDec 25, 2011 4:00 am - “There’s a grief that can’t be spoken. There’s a pain goes on and on. Empty chairs at empty tables Now my friends are dead and gone.” -- Marius, from the musical “Les Mi...
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Fed up with this kind of ‘funding’Dec 23, 2011 4:00 am - Here’s a sample of what came home in my sons’ backpacks recently: a flier announcing a before-school sale on bags of Hot Cheetos, Funyuns and other high-salt-and-fat jun...
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The 3 a.m. call that demands leadershipDec 23, 2011 4:00 am - It’s late at night when the phone rings at the White House: Kim Jong Il, the ruthless oddball dictator of nuclear-armed North Korea, is dead. His apparent successor is h...