Articles filed under Commentary
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For Obama's critics, grow upDec 12, 2010 10:00 pm - This is how bad things have gotten in Washington, and how broken our politics has become. President Obama is being unmercifully and unfairly pummeled by congressional De...
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It's grow-up time in AmericaDec 11, 2010 10:00 pm - Thanks to WikiLeaks, even Vlad the Putin can raise an eyebrow and presume to know more about founding American principles, democracy and free speech. It is convenient t...
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Congress: Hold your nose and back compromiseDec 10, 2010 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- Approve the lousy deal. It pains me to write those words, because the agreement President Obama negotiated with Republicans on tax cuts is really quite aw...
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Obama's clever tax deal is really a huge swindleDec 10, 2010 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- Barack Obama won the great tax-cut showdown of 2010 -- and House Democrats don't have a clue that he did. In the deal struck this week, the president negot...
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Blue state liberals should listen to common senseDec 08, 2010 10:00 pm - The political lineup for and against the controversial tax deal evokes great bemusement. Once again, Republicans representing the poorer conservative states are pounding...
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Obama takes center stage with dealDec 08, 2010 10:00 pm - It took a month for Barack Obama to make clear what he has learned from the midterm election “shellacking,” but the time has not been wasted. Future political historians...
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When transparency can do damageDec 08, 2010 12:00 am - The first WikiLeaks moment occurred on Jan. 17, 1998. It was then that Matt Drudge reported that Bill Clinton had had an affair with a White House intern. The story, tho...
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Don't ask, don't tell, don't careDec 08, 2010 12:00 am - People who take polls for a living will tell you that depending on the methodology, the sample, how a question is asked and the understanding of the ones being polled, t...
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A woman who held hope amid life's cruelty, misfortuneDec 07, 2010 10:00 pm - I don't care what they said about her in “Game Change.” Catty? Who wouldn't be? Difficult? She had a right to be. She lost a son. She stood by her husband as he pursued ...
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Leaky Internet shows value of traditional pressDec 07, 2010 10:00 pm - So, I'm wondering now about all the social nihilists out there who've been reveling in what they see as the demise of the “lame-stream” media. And my question for them i...