Articles filed under Commentary
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Rapping at the White HouseMay 15, 2011 12:00 am - Once again, we have an association controversy at the White House. This week, a rapper who calls himself “Common” was invited by Michelle Obama to read some of his “poet...
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The president’s Luke Skywalker momentMay 15, 2011 12:00 am - With the nation transfixed by the daring raid that killed Osama bin Laden, the first GOP presidential debate transpired with relatively little notice. For Republicans, t...
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To be 70 and an AmericanMay 11, 2011 11:00 pm - In 1960, after the Pittsburgh Pirates defeated the New York Yankees in an electrifying seven-game World Series, the Yankees fired manager Casey Stengel, who had turned 7...
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Immigration promises come up emptyMay 11, 2011 11:00 pm - President Obama thinks Latino voters are stupid. There's no evidence to the contrary, based on how he's mishandling his campaign promises on comprehensive immigration re...
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Bin Laden photo debate is about life as well as deathMay 11, 2011 12:00 am - When it comes to Osama bin Laden, we should think as much about the pictures we see as about the ones we don’t see. Here’s what I mean: I listened this week to an engagi...
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Evil doesn’t die of natural causesMay 11, 2011 12:00 am - Two months and a day before 9/11, terrorism expert Larry C. Johnson published “The Declining Terrorist Threat,” a New York Times op-ed decrying the fact that “Americans ...
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The dysfunction of American exceptionalismMay 10, 2011 12:00 am - “The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line,” W.E.B. Du Bois wrote in 1903 — and I will not quibble. But the problem of the 21st century is th...
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Getting the truth trumps ideologyMay 09, 2011 12:00 am - Frustrating! That’s the appropriate word for what is happening in the wake of the Osama bin Laden raid. Besides the precision of the Navy SEALs, the big story to emerge ...
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The right loses its fightMay 09, 2011 12:00 am - These are very tricky times for conservatives in America. For starters, they don't really have a candidate. OK, that's familiar. More unusual: They don't really have an ...
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Torture is still tortureMay 09, 2011 12:00 am - It wasn’t torture that revealed Osama bin Laden’s hiding place. Finding and killing the world’s most-wanted terrorist took years of patient intelligence gathering and do...