Articles filed under Opinion
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The dark night in all our soulsJul 24, 2012 11:48 am - By now the script should be familiar. A bombing or a mass shooting occurs and the media immediately look for a simple cause. Invariably, they turn to talk radio or some ...
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In memory of a brave and intrepid pioneerJul 23, 2012 11:00 am - Bill Raspberry wore his eminence well. In a city full of preening, self-centered journalistic royalty, he was a warm and generous prince who never deluded himself into t...
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Are some in GOP ready to deal on taxes?Jul 23, 2012 5:00 am - Nowadays, few politicians will stray from party orthodoxy without also taking unfair whacks at the opposition. Sen. Tom Coburn, Republican from Oklahoma, is braver and m...
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The antidote to getting dumberJul 22, 2012 5:00 am - Few instances are more refreshing than the sound of a politician leaving office. This isn’t because we want to see them go, necessarily (though this, too, can be delici...
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Our politics of polarizationJul 20, 2012 5:00 am - As his campaign threw out unsubstantiated charges that Mitt Romney might be guilty of a felony, and then mocked Romney’s off-key singing of “America the Beautiful,” Pres...
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The 33rd time aroundJul 19, 2012 5:00 am - Earlier this month, the House of Representatives, in a colossal waste of time, voted for the 33rd time to repeal President Obama's health care plan. Going into the vote...
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Emanuel’s about-face on immigrationJul 19, 2012 5:00 am - How’s this for a role reversal? When Rahm Emanuel was in Congress and later as White House chief of staff, he protected fellow Democrats by steering the party’s agenda ...
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The GOP’s crime against votersJul 19, 2012 5:00 am - Spare us any more hooey about “preventing fraud” and “protecting the integrity of the ballot box.” The Republican-led crusade for voter ID laws is revealed as a cynical ...
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On seeing and believing both sidesJul 19, 2012 5:00 am - Editor’s note: Longtime Washington Post columnist William Raspberry died Tuesday at 76. He wrote this column in 2005 shortly before his retirement. I’ll breeze right pa...
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Harry Reid and the race cardJul 18, 2012 10:55 am - Let’s peek into the kindergarten classroom known as the U.S. Senate, where mischievous Harry Reid is playing with his colors again. What if everything that Americans th...