Articles filed under Commentary
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Defense trims: Why not?Nov 16, 2010 10:00 pm - I come not to bury the manifesto issued last week by President Obama's debt-reduction commission, but to praise the most welcome of its ideas: Slash defense spending alo...
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GOP would be wise to listen to PalinNov 16, 2010 10:00 pm - I promised myself that I'd stop defending Sarah Palin. But it's a hard habit to break. While I found the former Alaska governor refreshing during the 2008 presidential ...
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Faces for a deadly productNov 15, 2010 10:00 pm - With apologies to Jonathan Swift, I have a modest proposal of my own. Instead of the government requiring cigarette packs and cartons to feature large warning labels des...
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Ignoring the joy of individual libertyNov 15, 2010 10:00 pm - “Everybody in Vanity Fair must have remarked how well those live who are comfortably and thoroughly in debt; how they deny themselves nothing; how jolly and easy the...
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Our rawest moments recorded foreverNov 14, 2010 10:00 pm - I can't quite remember certain things that happened in college, particularly during my junior year “abroad” at Dartmouth. I'm sure some of that is age (in this case, a r...
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A bold, necessary step toward economic sanityNov 14, 2010 10:00 pm - What Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson have given America is the equivalent of a cold shower after a night of heavy drinking. It's sober-up time. The co-chairmen of the pr...
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What will GOP do about Sarah?Nov 13, 2010 10:00 pm - NEW YORK — Despite its considerable gains in the midterm elections, the GOP has a problem looming in the margins named Sarah Palin. She who can rouse the base like none ...
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1940s injustice worth recounting todayNov 13, 2010 10:00 pm - SAN DIEGO — ”The whites wouldn't like it ... “ Those are the words that were offered up, in 1949, by a funeral director in Three Rivers, Texas a small town about 70 mi...
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Cheese subsidies and more are full of holesNov 12, 2010 10:00 pm - How interesting that one arm of the Agriculture Department is promoting sales of cheese as another urges the public to eat less of it for health reasons. Your tax dollar...
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Obama's transformative electionNov 12, 2010 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- As he promised it would be, Barack Obama's presidency has been transformative, but not as he intended. Whether it lasts two or six more years, it is an ex...