Articles filed under Commentary
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More doesn't equal better on school fundingJun 23, 2009 11:00 pm - Some people have certain presumptions - for example, that government is better-suited to handling problems than individuals or private entities. Nowhere has the failure ...
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Humanitarian, but questionableJun 22, 2009 11:00 pm - Those of us who live near the U.S.-Mexico border are used to seeing bizarre things - but not this bizarre. Law enforcement agencies don't typically help those who break ...
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Timid Obama succumbs to old politicsJun 22, 2009 11:00 pm - Last week was tough for the hopeful ones who believed President Obama's vow to break with the old politics. Every day, it seems, he caved to a Democratic interest group....
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Why silence on Iran when terror reigns?Jun 21, 2009 11:00 pm - Millions of Iranians take to the streets to defy a theocratic dictatorship that, among its other finer qualities, is a self-declared enemy of America and the tolerance a...
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Gay rights activists must not give upJun 21, 2009 11:00 pm - Rep. Barney Frank, the first member of Congress to be re-elected after coming out, is right in telling gays not to abandon the president. As Frank put it, "The notion th...
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Lacking a Bush gauge, Obama's popularity fallsJun 20, 2009 11:00 pm - In a conversation the other day with a White House official, I heard something I'd never expected from an employee of Barack Obama's. "I wish," he said, "George Bush wou...
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ABC taking its newsroom to bedroomJun 20, 2009 11:00 pm - Not so long ago in a vastly different media environment there were such things as journalistic ethics. Reporters were prohibited from taking trips paid for by individual...
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Heavy lifters for a health billJun 18, 2009 11:00 pm - Fifteen years ago, when Democratic Sen. Tom Daschle was running interference for the Clintons' effort at health care reform, his goal in life was to enlist Sen. Bob Dole...
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Burned by tobacco legislation againJun 18, 2009 11:00 pm - Politicians have extraordinary shoulder joints that enable them to pat themselves on the back, and last week the president performed it in the Rose Garden. His subject w...
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Put medical culture in tune with callingJun 18, 2009 11:00 pm - There will be time to talk about costs and coverage, about public and private plans, about reasoning and rationing in health-care reform. So the president began this wee...