Articles filed under Commentary
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A necessary anonymity in the public spotlightJan 11, 2011 10:00 pm - Quick. Can you name the person who went on a shooting rampage at Virginia Tech? The man who killed five students at Northern Illinois University? The men who terrorized ...
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Sanitizing Twain is a teacher's shameJan 10, 2011 10:00 pm - NEW YORK — While sorting through the perennial lip-pursing tempest about a certain word in Mark Twain's “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” — the “N-word,” as we now sa...
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Death and our insane handgun lawsJan 10, 2011 10:00 pm - I had a teacher in college who used to ask, Who discovered America? He would offer some choices. They were Amerigo Vespucci, Christopher Columbus or the Nina, the Pinta ...
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Mystery of the missing millionairesJan 09, 2011 10:00 pm - A daffy Wall Street Journal editorial about the “vanishing millionaires” of Oregon lit a spark in a fairly humorless week. It offers the usual boilerplate about the rich...
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Action is real test in Constitution debateJan 09, 2011 10:00 pm - For decades, Democrats and Republicans fought over who owns the American flag. Now they're fighting over who owns the Constitution. The flag debates began during the Vie...
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Daley choice moves Obama in right wayJan 08, 2011 10:00 pm - For a while there, I was worried that Barack Obama might actually be content to be a one-term president so long as he could say he accomplished what he set out to do. I...
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Let investigations of waste, fraud and plots beginJan 08, 2011 10:00 pm - Given the Democrats' track record of investigating Republican administrations, they will lack credibility when they protest Republicans investigating actions by the Obam...
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In Dallas, a sociological bomb defusedJan 07, 2011 10:00 pm - Race still matters in America and justice is not completely blind. Anyone who believes otherwise should examine the case of Cornelius Dupree Jr., who was ruled innocent ...
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Obama to face ire of Rust Belt revolutionariesJan 07, 2011 10:00 pm - Consensus is scarce, but almost everyone agrees with this: The government is dysfunctional and the Internet is splendid. But last month, the Democratic-controlled Federa...
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Giving ammunition to a dictatorJan 05, 2011 10:00 pm - As the latest diplomatic WikiLeaks trickle down from the headlines to remote parts of the world, we can begin examining their effect. Take Zimbabwe, whose fragility mak...