Articles filed under Commentary
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The desires of the heart of a grown-upDec 18, 2010 10:00 pm - By the time you read this, it won't be my birthday anymore. Thankfully. But it is right now, and birthdays don't get easier as you get older. I'm not talking about morta...
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Rhetoric, honesty and rich folksDec 18, 2010 10:00 pm - Words matter. Just ask Google, which now has arranged for anyone to search millions of books online and track how many times a particular word has been used through the...
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The Democrats' new comeback kidDec 17, 2010 10:00 pm - If Barack Obama wins re-election in 2012, as is now more likely than not, historians will mark his comeback as beginning on Dec. 6, the day of the Great Tax Cut Deal of ...
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Legal attack on health care makes no senseDec 15, 2010 10:00 pm - So you thought health care was fixed. Well, maybe not “fixed,” but you assumed that the new law had put us on the path to solving one of America's most pressing problems...
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Obamacare in critical conditionDec 15, 2010 10:00 pm - The ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Henry E. Hudson that the Affordable Care Act, also known as “Obamacare,” unconstitutionally imposes a requirement that everyone c...
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Who do you think made the suburbs better this year?Dec 14, 2010 10:00 pm - Memory Lane. When you travel the course of any year, you can't avoid ending up here. It's the place where, while taking stock of your life and preparing for a new year a...
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'Cyberwar' affects us allDec 14, 2010 10:00 pm - The most important legacy of the WikiLeaks affair will almost surely be the rapidly escalating cyberwar that the group's renegade disclosures have sparked. If you think ...
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Respect China but not its brutal oppressionDec 13, 2010 10:00 pm - One of the more frightening aspects of China's persecution of Liu Xiaobo, the imprisoned dissident and this year's Nobel Peace Prize winner, is that the government never...
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Social mobility first step toward progressDec 13, 2010 10:00 pm - Passing the tax compromise between President Obama and congressional Republicans would be a notable achievement but mainly a negative one. It would avoid a contraction ...
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Democrats and addiction to governmentDec 12, 2010 10:00 pm - The “grand bargain” agreed to by the White House to preserve the Bush-era tax rates, extend unemployment insurance for another year and reduce the payroll tax for 2011 d...