Articles filed under Commentary
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America and future warsJun 04, 2012 5:00 am - On Sunday, Sept. 2, 1945, aboard the battleship USS Missouri at the end of ceremonies marking the unconditional surrender of Japan and the formal end of World War II, Ge...
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Joe Biden and the use of empathyJun 03, 2012 5:00 am - What to make of Vice President Joe Biden? Sometimes he is gaffe-prone comic relief. Sometimes he is the possessor of the worst geopolitical judgment in Washington — as w...
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Romney plays his Trump cardJun 01, 2012 1:09 pm - Donald Trump has said he would be “open” to accepting a Cabinet post if Mitt Romney becomes president. Trump would prefer “a position where I negotiate against some of t...
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Taking the rule of law for grantedJun 01, 2012 5:00 am - On May 25, the Radcliffe Institute honored Margaret Marshall, aka Margie, the brilliant and charismatic former Chief Justice (first woman) of the Massachusetts Supreme J...
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Egg on Face(book)May 31, 2012 5:00 am - There will be investigations and already there are lawsuits over the rollout of Facebook’s overhyped initial public offering, but no investigation is necessary into the ...
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The ‘geezers’ are right this timeMay 30, 2012 11:49 am - Alan Simpson let loose at a group of Californians who charged in a brochure that he and Erskine Bowles were “using the deficit to gut our Social Security.” The former Re...
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A liberal squeeze playMay 30, 2012 5:00 am - In one of his characteristic conniptions about people who frustrated him, Theodore Roosevelt, progressivism’s first president, said of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, “I ...
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The wonder of our changeMay 30, 2012 5:00 am - I started off a recent day by reading the obituary of Wesley Brown. I did not know him and, in fact, had never heard of him. He was the first African-American to graduat...
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Bob Kerrey’s entitlement honestyMay 29, 2012 5:00 am - By endorsing Deb Fischer — the surprise winner of Nebraska’s Republican Senate primary — Sarah Palin let a competent candidate slip through her normal screening process....
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Politics shouldn’t be boringMay 28, 2012 5:00 am - When my kids were young, about the worst thing they could say about something was that it was capital-b BORRRING. You know how they stretch out the word, as in why say m...