Articles filed under Opinion
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Optical illusionsMar 14, 2013 9:47 am - The media love optics, and no one understands this better than President Obama. Thus, he invited a gang of Republican senators to din-dins at the swank (and legendary) J...
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Where’s the beef?Mar 14, 2013 5:00 am - In an iconic commercial, two white-haired ladies, after looking inside a nearly empty hamburger bun, demand of the hapless fast-food clerk, “Where’s the beef?” The phras...
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Media myopia in RomeMar 14, 2013 5:00 am - All things considered, I’d rather be in Rome. Isn’t everyone? Tout le journalism monde has descended on Rome since Pope Benedict XVI’s surprise retirement last month. Th...
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The boilerplate gapMar 14, 2013 5:00 am - It would be a mistake to confuse a budget proposal for a proposed budget, though they bear a superficial resemblance. A budget proposal — of the type that Paul Ryan, R-W...
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Harvard profs steamed at opened emailsMar 13, 2013 5:00 am - “Harvard Search of Email Stuns Its Faculty Members,” the headline says. University officials rifled through the messages of resident deans to learn who passed on a confi...
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Rand Paul’s real warMar 13, 2013 5:00 am - Since arriving in the Senate in 2011, Rand Paul has been probing here and there for issues of populist resonance. Audit the secretive, sinister Federal Reserve. Rein in ...
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A solution to the latest ‘mommy war’Mar 12, 2013 5:00 pm - Excuse me while I roll my eyes over the latest “mommy war.” It’s not that I don’t care about the substance, but because I’ve lived long enough to know how it turns out. ...
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FDR’s moral failureMar 12, 2013 5:00 am - On April 12, 1945, my grandfather approached me as I played outside the house and asked where my mother was. He looked stricken, and so I quickly followed him inside and...
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Right to vote is not a ‘racial entitlement’Mar 11, 2013 4:00 am - The Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case of Shelby County v. Holder — a challenge to the Voting Rights Act of 1965, specifically Section 5, which requires stat...
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Jeb Bush’s line on immigrationMar 11, 2013 4:00 am - When they wrote “Immigration Wars” last year, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Clint Bolick were pushing the boundaries of the GOP’s internal policy debate. The book is ...