Articles filed under Commentary
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Austerity and moralityDec 02, 2012 4:00 am - America is entering a period of prolonged austerity. The entitlement commitments made in a past generation have been rendered untenable by demographics and health cost i...
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A cliff of their own choosingNov 30, 2012 4:00 am - With a chip on his shoulder larger than his margin of victory, Barack Obama is approaching his second term by replicating the mistake of his first. Then his overreaching...
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Who’s depressed now?Nov 30, 2012 4:00 am - It seems hard to believe that the election was only three short weeks ago, and that even as the results were coming in proving Nate Silver (the much maligned New York Ti...
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How to kill Social Security, with a smileNov 29, 2012 4:00 am - Conservatives never much liked Social Security. It’s a wildly popular government program that’s totally solvent until 2033. It will be easily fixable and by then may not...
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‘Petraeus Affair’ highlights unfairness to womenNov 29, 2012 4:00 am - As events have unfolded in what shall ever be known as “The Petraeus Affair,” one cannot escape noticing that the women in this sordid saga have been handed the short en...
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Politics with a purposeNov 28, 2012 4:00 am - It is Steven Spielberg’s singular achievement to have made a heroic movie about compromise and petty corruption. In “Lincoln,” he pans away from a field of corpses 130 m...
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No bonding with this 007Nov 28, 2012 4:00 am - In the new James Bond movie, “Skyfall,” Daniel Craig takes off his shirt and examines his wounds. There appear to be two of them — small holes on his skin from bullets f...
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Cracks in the anti-tax wallNov 27, 2012 4:00 am - Maybe the fever is breaking. Maybe the delirium is lifting. Maybe Republicans are finally asking themselves: What were we thinking when we put an absurdly unrealistic pl...
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Digesting the Twinkies’ lessonsNov 27, 2012 4:00 am - “All Gods were immortal.” — Stanislaw Lec And also brands, the gods of the marketplace. Earthquakes may strike, dynasties may fall and locusts may devour the crops, but...
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Whiner in chiefNov 26, 2012 4:00 am - Mitt doesn’t get it. Just a couple of weeks after his shellacking by Latino voters in the presidential election, and the 2012 Republican standard-bearer continued insul...