Articles filed under Commentary
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High-tech, high-touch: Back to the futureJun 24, 2011 3:00 am - While fetching my digital camera from the repair shop, I noted a bunch of clunky old film cameras and their flashes lining a back table. I thought no one used film anymo...
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When the accent is on languageJun 22, 2011 9:00 pm - Tensions flared during testimony leading up to the final state Senate vote on Texas’ sanctuary cities bill — and not just over whether the new measures would have a chil...
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We report, but sometimes only hope you careJun 22, 2011 12:00 am - “To whom can I speak and give warning? Who will listen to me? Their ears are closed so they cannot hear.” #8212; Jeremiah 6:10 Complain...
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Time to leave AfghanistanJun 21, 2011 9:00 pm - Not long after Afghanistan goes off its meds — American and other troops, oodles of aid, civilian technicians and so much cash that airplanes have to strain to smuggle i...
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Sharia and the ConstitutionJun 21, 2011 9:00 pm - On the issue of Muslims serving in public office, every explanation by presidential candidate Herman Cain becomes a complication. In three instances Cain affirmed that M...
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No escaping the obviousJun 21, 2011 12:00 am - It’s an irony of the modern age that the most devastating kind of sex scandal, at least for politicians, doesn’t involve actual sex. As Rep. Anthony Weiner has learned. ...
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Libya and the Potemkin allianceJun 21, 2011 12:00 am - America’s intervention in Libya’s civil war, the most protracted and least surreptitious assassination attempt in history, was supposed to last “days, not weeks,” but is...
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The law and civil libertiesJun 19, 2011 7:00 pm - I bet you didn’t know that federal law enforcement officers representing the Department of Education can break down your front door if you are suspected of violating...
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Why is Romney running from his great success?Jun 19, 2011 7:00 pm - I’m sorry, Mitt. I’m probably the last person in the world you’d want saying a nice word about you. Maybe you can trot this out in the general election. Maybe the likes ...
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The right question for the defense budgetJun 19, 2011 12:00 am - “Can we afford the military budget?” Not quite the right question, but one being asked these days even in hawkish circles. It reflects a break in the Republicans’ tradit...