Articles filed under Commentary
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Master of the muddle on Middle EastJun 19, 2013 5:00 am - I have written so many columns about the Syrian civil war they are like rings on a tree stump — a way of gauging Barack Obama’s steadfast inaction and what the cost has ...
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Some room for compromise between pension plansJun 19, 2013 5:00 am - The stalemate in Springfield between competing philosophies and positions on needed pension reform in the Senate and the House is simply not acceptable. Everyone needs t...
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Crisis of faith in governmentJun 18, 2013 5:00 am - It is reassuring that in the midst of so much government dysfunction, the IRS has resolved the question of when and whether to tax tanning beds under the Affordable Care...
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Snowden: all-seeing, or myopic?Jun 16, 2013 5:00 am - Edward Snowden, the youthful information technician who leaked our nation's top-secret cyber-spy program, has made his mark on history. I suspect his “moment of fame” wi...
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The poisoning of patriotismJun 16, 2013 5:00 am - A number of libertarians and conservative populists have found data collection by the National Security Agency to be the final confirmation of their worst fears about Ba...
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DREAMs for our fathers and mothers, tooJun 14, 2013 5:00 am - “Your sons are in jail,” someone said to our mom and dad one day. These were words they never wanted to hear. Their reason to move to this country had been to save us fr...
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The guilt-free approach to consuming newsJun 13, 2013 10:41 am - News writers wrestle daily with a formidable paradox — how to get you to read a story in its entirety while making sure you don’t have to. We of course would like you to...
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A dog-bites-man storyJun 12, 2013 5:00 am - An old journalism saw goes like this: Dog bites man, no story. Man bites dog, story. Allow me to update it. Government monitors email and telephone calls for national se...
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A power of convictionJun 12, 2013 5:00 am - President Obama’s newly designated national security adviser, Susan Rice, and his proposed United Nations ambassador, Samantha Power, are political loyalists. They are a...
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The fresh air of Pope FrancisJun 11, 2013 5:00 am - We tend to remember leaders in characteristic poses. For Pope Benedict XVI, the college professor, it was delivering a much-misunderstood lecture at the University of Re...