Articles filed under Opinion
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Cracks in the anti-tax wallNov 27, 2012 4:00 am - Maybe the fever is breaking. Maybe the delirium is lifting. Maybe Republicans are finally asking themselves: What were we thinking when we put an absurdly unrealistic pl...
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Digesting the Twinkies’ lessonsNov 27, 2012 4:00 am - “All Gods were immortal.” — Stanislaw Lec And also brands, the gods of the marketplace. Earthquakes may strike, dynasties may fall and locusts may devour the crops, but...
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Whiner in chiefNov 26, 2012 4:00 am - Mitt doesn’t get it. Just a couple of weeks after his shellacking by Latino voters in the presidential election, and the 2012 Republican standard-bearer continued insul...
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Looking at the glass half fullNov 26, 2012 4:00 am - Like many people, I have a tendency to spend more time thinking about what’s wrong than what’s right, what’s missing rather than what is there, what I don’t have instead...
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Why was there war in Gaza?Nov 25, 2012 4:00 am - Why was there an Israel-Gaza war in the first place? Resistance to the occupation, say Hamas and many in the international media. What occupation? Seven years ago, in f...
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Health coverage a ‘gift’ to ourselvesNov 25, 2012 4:00 am - One of the more curious “gifts” in Mitt Romney’s list of ways Barack Obama allegedly bought off voters was letting young people up to the age of 26 stay on their parents...
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The GOP’s listening problemNov 23, 2012 4:00 am - I have a sinking feeling the Republican Party is taking all the wrong lessons from the election. Short-term, that’s a boon for Democrats. Long-term, it’s a problem for t...
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Post elections, attitude will be keyNov 22, 2012 4:00 am - An intriguing conversation about the next step in the fiscal drama is taking place among our elected leaders. At this early point it is mostly at an exploratory level, b...
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For this, we give thanksNov 22, 2012 4:00 am - Among the things for which Americans can, on this weekend of feasting, be thankful is Washington’s resolve to temper severity with mercy: It will seriously — this time w...
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The callousness of HamasNov 21, 2012 4:00 am - Of all the points of disagreement between Israel and Hamas, maybe the most profound is this one: Israel cares more about sparing innocent lives — including those of Pale...