Articles filed under Commentary
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Obama’s fog of ambivalence on the warMar 27, 2012 5:00 am - From media reports, it is now clear that America’s hold on Afghanistan is unraveling and our military faces defeat. The recent rampage of an American soldier was the las...
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For government: No limitsMar 27, 2012 5:00 am - Are there no limits on government’s power, no place where it cannot go? New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a former (thankfully) Republican, but in name only, has de...
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Sky not falling with Japanese birthratesMar 27, 2012 5:00 am - There's one complaint visitors to Tokyo rarely make, and that is “not enough people.” With a population of 36 million, the Tokyo metropolitan area stuffs an average 6,80...
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The glory of messy chaosMar 26, 2012 5:00 am - Retreat need not mean surrender. Still ... In 1886, a shipment of $25 watches from a Chicago jeweler was rejected by the addressee in Redwood Falls, Minn. The jeweler o...
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Where is the political inspiration?Mar 26, 2012 5:00 am - Folks, I hate to break it to you, but even though it seems to have been grinding on for years already, this presidential election is on pace to drag on forever. Why? On...
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To be black in AmericaMar 25, 2012 5:00 am - For every black man in America, from the millionaire in the corner office to the mechanic in the local garage, the Trayvon Martin tragedy is personal. It could have been...
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Obamacare: The reckoningMar 25, 2012 5:00 am - Obamacare dominated the 2010 midterms, driving its Democratic authors to a historic electoral shellacking. But since then, the issue has slipped quietly underground. Now...
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The goings on at GoldmanMar 23, 2012 1:00 am - Midlevel executives at big Wall Street firms leave every day of the week, particularly if — as was the case with Greg Smith — they’ve worked somewhere for 11 years and h...
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The big economic pictureMar 22, 2012 9:36 am - Americans and Europeans will remember the last several years as a period of economic insecurity. But the economic history of our times will be recounted very differently...
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A reason missing from presidential politicsMar 22, 2012 1:00 am - Thus far, the 2012 presidential campaign has been unfocused, dispiriting and largely irrelevant. By the time Election Day comes, a weary nation will be at the point of p...