Articles filed under Opinion
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Romney’s health care ditherSep 13, 2012 11:18 am - I’m trying to figure out just where Mitt Romney stands on health care reform. Obviously, so is Mitt Romney. In an interview broadcast Sunday on “Meet the Press,” I thou...
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New language might have helped tame the Old WestSep 13, 2012 5:00 am - I’m sure it must have been a dream. I was a young writer fresh from J-school and heard about the trouble in Shinbone. I strode into the newspaper office and got the atte...
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Different speeches, similar philosophySep 13, 2012 5:00 am - During a presidential election in which both campaigns seem mainly intent on turning out their most ideologically typical voters — through the endless application of con...
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The poor, now that’s another storySep 12, 2012 5:00 am - When I was 19, I lived in a furnished room on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. My kitchen table was the bathtub with a cover over it. I had no shower and the common toilet w...
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Better off than 4 years ago? I’d say so.Sep 11, 2012 5:00 am - Are you better off today than you were four years ago? Ronald Reagan’s 1980 campaign zinger is back in 2012. Let’s see. Four years ago ... four years ago. That was Sept...
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Introducing President MSNBCSep 11, 2012 5:00 am - They came, they were adored, they conquered. No, not the president, his family or the numerous actors and political heirs who spoke glowingly of Barack Obama during the...
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Pigskin progressivismSep 10, 2012 11:14 am - With two extravagant entertainments under way, it is instructive to note the connection between the presidential election and the college football season: Barack Obama r...
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The empathy gapSep 10, 2012 5:00 am - WASHINGTON — Given the state of the economy, by any historical standard, Barack Obama should be 15 points behind Mitt Romney. Why is he tied? The empathy gap. On “caring...
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A tale of two conventionsSep 10, 2012 5:00 am - CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Judging by the party conventions, you’d wonder why this election is even close. In Tampa, despite some unexpectedly amateurish stagecraft, Republicans...
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Obama fails, revealinglySep 09, 2012 5:00 am - In his 2008 convention speech, Barack Obama’s main challenge was rhetorical — to frame and summarize a historical moment in which the choosing of a president could at le...