Articles filed under Opinion
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A grieving father’s pleaMar 05, 2013 4:00 am - Most of our top elected officials probably didn’t notice — they were too busy making fools of themselves over an idiotic budget “crisis” of their own manufacture — but s...
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In a rut on Voting Rights ActMar 04, 2013 4:00 am - Progressives are remarkably uninterested in progress. Social Security is 78 years old and myriad social improvements have added 17 years to life expectancy since 1935, y...
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How to live long is everybody’s guessMar 04, 2013 4:00 am - The latest dispatch from the food wars: For those at high risk of heart disease, following the Mediterranean diet results in 30 percent fewer heart attacks and strokes. ...
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Michelle Obama’s wingsMar 03, 2013 4:00 am - If second-term presidents feel liberated by re-election to pursue bolder agendas, first ladies often become more comfortable to be their own person. Witness Laura Bush,...
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Hail ArmageddonMar 01, 2013 9:44 am - “The worst-case scenario for us,” a leading anti-budget-cuts lobbyist told The Washington Post, “is the sequester hits and nothing bad really happens.” Think about that...
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A power to act on warmingMar 01, 2013 4:00 am - The test of President Obama’s seriousness about addressing climate change is not his pending decision on the much-debated Keystone XL pipeline. It’s whether he effective...
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The Olympics of joyMar 01, 2013 4:00 am - On a rainy Saturday morning, in the packed gym at the Blessed Sacrament School in Northwest Washington, a parade of middle and high school basketball players, many with ...
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Price-gouging in ‘free market’ medicineFeb 28, 2013 4:00 am - When folks pan the Affordable Care Act for being nearly 3,000 pages long, here’s a sensible response: It could have been done in a page and a half if it simply declared ...
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The Fed’s not-so-golden ruleFeb 27, 2013 10:17 am - RICHMOND, Va. — A display case in the lobby of the Federal Reserve Bank here might express humility. The case holds a 99.9 percent pure gold bar weighing 401.75 troy oun...
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When doing nothing is a policyFeb 27, 2013 4:00 am - In the movie “Lawrence of Arabia,” the attempt to unite the Arabs comes apart in Damascus. Lawrence bangs on his desk with the butt of his gun to bring the assembly to o...