Articles filed under Commentary
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A solution to the latest ‘mommy war’Mar 12, 2013 5:00 pm - Excuse me while I roll my eyes over the latest “mommy war.” It’s not that I don’t care about the substance, but because I’ve lived long enough to know how it turns out. ...
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FDR’s moral failureMar 12, 2013 5:00 am - On April 12, 1945, my grandfather approached me as I played outside the house and asked where my mother was. He looked stricken, and so I quickly followed him inside and...
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Right to vote is not a ‘racial entitlement’Mar 11, 2013 4:00 am - The Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case of Shelby County v. Holder — a challenge to the Voting Rights Act of 1965, specifically Section 5, which requires stat...
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Jeb Bush’s line on immigrationMar 11, 2013 4:00 am - When they wrote “Immigration Wars” last year, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Clint Bolick were pushing the boundaries of the GOP’s internal policy debate. The book is ...
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Is flare of anger enough to lose an endorsement?Mar 10, 2013 4:00 am - With our local elections just a month away, I thought it might be instructional to tell you some of the back story in just one of the more than 150 endorsement interview...
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Where our government’s money goesMar 10, 2013 4:00 am - Over the last few weeks, as the deadline for the congressionally mandated budget cuts known as the “sequester” came and went, we got a taste of how difficult cutting fed...
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Some taxes up, and the sky’s still thereMar 10, 2013 4:00 am - “Most of the media is so sold out to Obama that they’re missing the obvious,” Jim DeMint said on Fox News. “The policies the president has in place, especially the tax i...
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Budget solution is hiding in the CaymansMar 08, 2013 4:00 am - The budget fights in both Washington, D.C. and Springfield are looking predictably ugly this year, and they are shaping up along familiar lines: Do we raise taxes? Do we...
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A man who stood for the human raceMar 07, 2013 4:00 am - Out of Mississippi, a milestone in the AIDS pandemic, or at least proof of concept: If you treat an infant early enough — in this case, within 30 hours of infection — it...
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Endorsements built on sincerity, care for suburbsMar 07, 2013 4:00 am - On Sunday, we launched into a three-week period of election endorsements with an explanation of why we do them. Today, I want to give you a little closer look at how the...