Articles filed under Commentary
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The Ordinary American, RIPJun 17, 2012 5:00 am - Among the lessons of this presidential election season, perhaps most salient is that the so-called Ordinary American is dead. Or, should I say, the ordinary-American tr...
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President Obama’s great bad weekJun 15, 2012 5:00 am - President Barack Obama’s campaign had a great and much-needed terrible week or so: bad economic news (that keeps on coming), questions about leaks of national security i...
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Jeb Bush’s heresies of the obviousJun 14, 2012 2:36 pm - Jeb Bush’s recent field trip to Washington was not pleasant, but it was clarifying — a civics lesson in democracy’s darker side. On June 1, Bush testified before the Hou...
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Watergate and watchdogs — the duty remainsJun 14, 2012 5:00 am - It would be less than accurate to suggest that The Washington Post’s reporting on the Watergate scandal initiated modern-day investigative journalism, but it certainly g...
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The Iron Lady warned usJun 14, 2012 5:00 am - LONDON — One of many things left out of the film “The Iron Lady” was Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s warnings on the effects a single currency would have on the econo...
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Nobody likes a loserJun 13, 2012 5:00 am - For the past year, we’ve been relentlessly reminded that Republicans didn’t especially love their front-running presidential candidate. Mitt Romney wasn’t conservative ...
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What the leakers have wroughtJun 13, 2012 5:00 am - Pity the poor Obama administration leakers. They impart their much-cherished secrets to make their man look good and then, at the first chirp of criticism, are ordered t...
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Subprime college educationsJun 12, 2012 5:00 am - Many parents and the children they send to college are paying rapidly rising prices for something of declining quality. This is because “quality” is not synonymous with ...
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Europe may decide Obama’s fateJun 12, 2012 5:00 am - LONDON — Some think Ohio will decide the presidential election. Others are watching Florida, or North Carolina or Wisconsin. But if you really want to know who will win ...
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Zero-sum means everybody losesJun 10, 2012 5:00 am - For all the hype about the Wisconsin recall election echoing across America, dear reader, you wouldn’t know it ended with a whimper, not a bang. The pollsters were sayin...