Articles filed under Commentary
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Caring enough to broadcast the very bestApr 21, 2011 12:00 am - Growing up, “Hallmark Hall of Fame” represented the gold standard of what we would call today “family values” television, except that TV then rarely carried anything thr...
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Low marks on immigrationApr 21, 2011 12:00 am - While headlines distract us with the latest battles in various states over immigration, we should be checking in with what’s going on at the federal level. And what bett...
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Inspection season in IowaApr 21, 2011 12:00 am - DES MOINES, Iowa — This state, about 10 months from its caucuses, is a flat, fertile, friendly political vacuum. The Republican candidates who finished first and second ...
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America's not a Third World country — yetApr 21, 2011 12:00 am - Let's start with the assumption that America is not a Third World country. In poor countries, many people never see doctors. Only the elite go to college. Rattletrap tra...
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Trump may be a 2012 force to reckon withApr 19, 2011 12:00 am - Back in 1990, Ivana Trump told her divorce lawyer Michael Kennedy that “from time to time, her husband (Donald Trump) reads a book of Hitler’s collected speeches, ‘My Ne...
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Voice of a conservative populistApr 19, 2011 12:00 am - KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The morning Tom Hoenig, president of the Federal Reserve’s regional bank here, announced that he would retire Oct. 1, newspapers nationwide reported t...
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Tax reform’s role in reducing the debtApr 18, 2011 11:00 pm - The most serious charge against Rep. Paul Ryan’s budget is not the risible claim, made most prominently by President Obama in his George Washington University address, t...
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What kind of America do we want?Apr 18, 2011 11:00 pm - It was refreshing to hear all those unambiguous declarations during President Obama’s speech last week. “I will not” let Medicare become a voucher program or deprive fam...
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Rejection just a part of lifeApr 18, 2011 1:00 am - It’s that time of year again, the time of year when high school seniors who have done everything right their whole lives discover that it wasn’t good enough to get them ...
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Obama’s grand repositioningApr 18, 2011 1:00 am - Intentional or not, it sizzled with symbolism that President Obama announced his re-election campaign the same day his administration threw in the towel on the closing o...