Articles filed under Commentary
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A clarifying debateAug 04, 2011 12:00 am - The story is that as Mark Twain and novelist William Dean Howells stepped outside one morning, a downpour began and Howells asked Twain, “Do you think it will stop?” Twa...
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Democrats also need a presidential primary in 2012Aug 04, 2011 12:00 am - Ed Rendell, do you have plans for 2012? Hillary Clinton? If you, the former Democratic governor of Pennsylvania, or you, the secretary of state, are free next year and w...
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Too dysfunctional to leadAug 03, 2011 3:00 am - Over lunch with columnists a month ago, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid precisely predicted the future course of the debt-limit debate. Democrats, he said, would not a...
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A hold-your-nose deal on debtAug 03, 2011 3:00 am - It’s supremely galling. It’s unbalanced, unfair and mostly unwise. For President Obama and the Democratic Party, it’s a comprehensive defeat. But it’s not the end of the...
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Keeping tabs on taxpayer-backed ‘p-cards’Aug 02, 2011 12:00 am - We all know about credit cards and debit cards. Now, meet the “p-card”. In recent years, use of the p-card — procurement cards issued directly by government to employees...
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Green with tea party envyAug 02, 2011 12:00 am - I suffer from tea party envy. There is little about the actual party I like and there are some members I abhor, but I am jealous of its sense of purpose, its determinati...
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The great divideJul 31, 2011 5:00 am - We’re in the midst of a great four-year national debate on the size and reach of government, the future of the welfare state, indeed, the nature of the social contract b...
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The power of the Big IdeaJul 31, 2011 5:00 am - Those who would chronicle events in Washington can find no richer source of analogy and metaphor than the Three Stooges. These days, I’m thinking of the times when an ex...
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The tea fragger partyJul 31, 2011 3:00 am - Fragging: “To intentionally kill or wound (one’s superior officer, etc.), esp. with a hand grenade.” Take names. Remember them. The behavior of certain Republica...
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What the Oslo killer ‘wanted’ doesn’t matterJul 29, 2011 3:00 am - “What did the Oslo killer want?” asks one of many irritating headlines over the weekend. The Norwegian terrorist suspect, Anders Behring Breivik, called for a number of ...