Articles filed under Opinion
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Cyborg MittSep 20, 2012 5:00 am - What’s a day without a leaked video, a scandal, an unintended sliver of truth? OMG: Mitt Romney doesn’t care about the votes of the 47 percent of Americans who don’t pa...
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The price of leading from behindSep 19, 2012 5:00 am - What lessons can be learned from events in Libya? That nothing good will come out of the Arab Spring? That Arabs are volatile, easily excitable and prone to acting out? ...
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Standing up for teachersSep 19, 2012 5:00 am - Teachers are heroes, not villains, and it’s time to stop demonizing them. It has become fashionable to blame all of society’s manifold sins and wickedness on “teachers u...
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The tangled web of conflicting rightsSep 18, 2012 5:00 am - Elaine Huguenin, who with her husband operates Elane Photography in New Mexico, asks only to be let alone. But instead of being allowed a reasonable zone of sovereignty ...
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In it for himself or for America?Sep 18, 2012 5:00 am - You’d think, after nearly a lifetime in politics, which began as a little girl starting petitions, I would have figured out how to respond to a tragedy. You’d think I’d ...
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We’ll never agree — and that’s fineSep 17, 2012 5:00 am - The conventional wisdom has settled on the subject of this year’s presidential campaign: it’s about the proper role of government in our nation’s life. This is a good ar...
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Close the mortgage-deduction loopholeSep 16, 2012 5:00 am - Letting homeowners deduct interest paid on their mortgages from taxable income makes no sense. It encourages taking on more debt, discriminates against renters, subsidiz...
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parker.clm 0917Sep 14, 2012 6:16 pm - “This time, the imbeciles have won.” That was the assessment of French philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy in his remembrance of U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens. And h...
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The abandonment of IsraelSep 14, 2012 11:41 am - There are two positions one can take regarding the Iranian nuclear program: (a) it doesn’t matter, we can deter them, or (b) it does matter, we must stop them. In my vi...
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Post conventions, focus is on turnoutSep 14, 2012 5:00 am - The national party conventions are over and the real presidential campaign has begun — meaning enormous amounts of money are now being spent on partisan television ads i...