Articles filed under Commentary
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At a loss for words on SyriaMay 08, 2013 5:00 am - It turns out that President Obama did not mean to say “red line” after all. The New York Times tells us the president misspoke. Maybe like a lot of people new to Washing...
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Indicting the agents of intoleranceMay 07, 2013 5:00 am - A group of rich Republicans is raising money to support same-sex marriage. By doing so, they reveal a fundamental split in conservative ranks between two very different ...
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Loopholes mean a faster track to citizenshipMay 07, 2013 5:00 am - Members of the Senate’s bipartisan Gang of Eight stress that under their new immigration plan, currently illegal immigrants will have to wait more than a decade before a...
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Obama sails a dangerous straitMay 06, 2013 5:00 pm - At a news conference marking 100 days into his second term in office, President Barack Obama said, “What’s happening in Syria is a blemish on the international community...
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‘Common good’ can revive common decencyMay 06, 2013 3:24 pm - The Rev. Jim Wallis is a man of the left — perhaps the defining figure of the evangelical left. So it is not surprising that I should find some of the policy views expre...
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Prude or prudent?May 06, 2013 5:00 am - They lost me at the word “women.” As so often happens with contemporary debate, arguments being proffered in support of allowing teenagers as young as 15 (and possibly y...
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The stakes of being too lateMay 05, 2013 5:00 am - On Syria, President Obama has sometimes seemed isolated within his own administration. As the atrocities have escalated — from the shelling of neighborhoods, to airstrik...
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How politics has changedMay 03, 2013 5:00 am - When two senators recently got into a spat over whether the Boston Marathon bombings were being politicized, the news was everywhere within minutes. Reams of commentary ...
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Nate Bell doesn’t know BostonMay 02, 2013 11:44 am - Lamentably, the Boston Marathon bombing reopened some of the most poisonous arguments in American life. Specifically, are the Tsarnaev brothers “white”? It’s a meaningle...
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Tequila, with loveMay 02, 2013 5:00 am - Just because Cinco de Mayo is a holiday brewed up by U.S. beer companies doesn’t mean you can’t celebrate it with good tequila. This year, I recommend one that lets you ...