Articles filed under Commentary
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While Syria burnsApr 29, 2012 1:00 am - Last year President Obama ordered U.S. intervention in Libya under the grand new doctrine of “Responsibility to Protect.” Moammar Gadhafi was threatening a massacre in B...
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How dumb can you be?Apr 26, 2012 5:00 am - I went to a strip club once. OK, maybe it was twice. The guys were going; I was curious. It reminded me of the first time I walked into a casino, in a hotel in Reno whe...
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Requiem for one of life’s true storytellersApr 26, 2012 5:00 am - We talk often these days in almost mystical tones of “storytellers” and “storytelling.” I don’t like the term. It is a glaze that calls attention to itself more than the...
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Pardon my zeitgeistApr 25, 2012 5:00 am - I think it is fair to say that the shark has been permanently displaced by the dog. When scriptwriters have run out of mustard, the show hasn’t “jumped the shark,” as w...
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Stop your panderingApr 24, 2012 5:00 am - Little else brings me as much joy as learning a new word — especially if it perfectly captures the spirit of the moment. “Hispandering” — isn’t that great? I can’t bel...
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Our turbulent skiesApr 17, 2012 5:00 am - DALLAS — From his office window, Thomas W. Horton, in his fifth month as CEO of American Airlines, can see in the distance the Manhattan-size footprint of Dallas-Fort Wo...
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Education and activism -- a fine lineApr 17, 2012 5:00 am - We are now a nation of activists living in a “movement” society. If something upsets enough of us, we try to get the situation rectified through online or actual take-to...
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Lessons from LondonApr 16, 2012 5:00 am - LONDON — The United Kingdom is in the midst of the great pasty crisis of 2012 — which, incidentally, has nothing to do with the garb of exotic dancers. The pasty is a ho...
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The Buffett RuleApr 16, 2012 5:00 am - If you haven’t heard of the Buffett Rule, you will. It’s already emerging as one of the key themes of the presidential race, and if it isn’t already known as the Romney ...
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Free-lunch egalitarianismApr 15, 2012 5:00 am - Here we go again. At the beginning of his presidency, Barack Obama argued that the country’s spiraling debt was largely the result of exploding health care costs. That ...