Articles filed under Opinion
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The Tea Party hangoverMar 05, 2014 4:01 am - The evidence accumulates that the Republican Party is sobering up - cotton-mouthed and slightly disoriented - from its recent ideological bender. The tone of some rheto...
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Mexicans' skepticism fuels legend of El ChapoMar 04, 2014 4:01 am - U.S. officials want to extradite the notorious Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, who was captured last month by Mexican marines and U.S. Drug Enforcement Admi...
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Defeating Dems, not the ACA, is the point of misleading adsMar 02, 2014 4:01 am - Politically speaking, here's the thing about those melodramatic TV ads attacking the Affordable Care Act: In terms of actual policy, they're as futile as the 40-odd vote...
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Obama's best hope for changeMar 01, 2014 4:01 am - President Obama's new outreach initiative to help at-risk boys of color - "My Brother's Keeper" - is cause for cheer. It isn't that we haven't known for some time that m...
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The return of the unseenFeb 27, 2014 4:01 am - Each of the GPS satellites that allow me to navigate to a new restaurant carries an atomic clock that needs to be accurate in order to triangulate the speed and position...
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Susan Rice's false choiceFeb 26, 2014 4:01 am - Susan Rice ought to stay off "Meet the Press." The last time she was on she misrepresented what led to the deaths of four Americans in Benghazi. On Sunday, she was back,...
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Make love, not warFeb 26, 2014 4:01 am - We've heard much about the Republican war on women. Exhaustingly. Lately, we've also heard about the war on men. The war on men-on-women-on-men ... or something, as MS...
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An outbreak of sanityFeb 25, 2014 4:01 am - Reports by presidential commissions are often like those statues that dominate public squares in Washington: massive in size, but opaque in origin and quickly obscured b...
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An alternative to the imperial presidencyFeb 25, 2014 4:01 am - In his State of the Union speech to Congress last month, President Obama drew widespread attention for pledging to use his executive authority to advance his priorities....
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Syria's uncontainable threatFeb 23, 2014 4:01 am - ZAATARI REFUGEE CAMP, Jordan - In a section of the camp designated for newcomers, I'm surrounded by about 20 men from the Damascus suburb of Ghouta, elbowing each other ...