Articles filed under Commentary
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Rooting for NewtJan 27, 2012 4:00 am - Ask honest Democrats, and they’ll tell you what I’m about to tell you: We’re rooting for Newt. The death penalty for marijuana? Replacing janitors with school kids? Mini...
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Finding the right candidate is complicatedJan 26, 2012 4:00 am - A longtime conservative friend sent me an email after reading something positive I had written about Newt Gingrich: “Whoever votes (for) or supports Newt for president i...
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The odd new positives for RomneyJan 25, 2012 4:00 am - An Illinois lawyer who had a way with words once characterized a particular argument as weaker than soup made from the shadow of a pigeon that died of starvation. The ar...
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Obama can’t celebrate just yetJan 25, 2012 4:00 am - When the polls closed in South Carolina on Saturday, I happened to be in a Charleston hotel lobby where elegantly dressed couples were filing past on their way to a blac...
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The GOP suicide marchJan 24, 2012 4:00 am - “Are you better off today than you were $4 trillion ago?” — Former presidential candidate Rick Perry It’s the campaign line of the year, and while the author won’t be ca...
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How “Downton Abbey” is more democratic than we areJan 24, 2012 4:00 am - Every Sunday night, the mega-carriages drop millions of us off at “Downton Abbey,” the hit PBS series about an aristocratic family, its English country estate and the co...
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Paterno epitaph: He protected himself, not the childrenJan 23, 2012 8:00 am - On those glorious, golden football Saturdays at Penn State — especially after any of Joe Paterno's record 409 wins — the nickname “Happy Valley” was invoked ad nauseam. ...
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A Latino identity crisisJan 22, 2012 11:00 pm - The Latino community is finding itself in a quandary about how to reconcile a tremendously diverse collection of immigrants and multigenerational U.S.-born citizens who ...
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Better living through wonkeryJan 22, 2012 11:00 pm - It is an achievement of the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street movements to have raised large issues of economic freedom and economic inequality. It is a paradox that thei...
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Gingrich and the perils of projectionJan 22, 2012 4:00 am - Newt Gingrich’s standing ovation Thursday night, when he attacked CNN moderator John King for asking about allegations that Gingrich wanted an “open marriage” with his s...