Articles filed under Opinion
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The Stossel solutionJul 18, 2012 5:00 am - In order to get the correct answer to anything, one must ask the right question. That is what former ABC News and current Fox News TV host John Stossel does on his weekl...
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A debate we shouldn’t be havingJul 18, 2012 5:00 am - To fully appreciate how silly the presidential campaign has become, envision a robot doing the job of a displaced American worker instead of the low-wage laborer abroad ...
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Moving beyond generic RepublicanismJul 17, 2012 5:00 am - On economic policy, Barack Obama has left Mitt Romney an opening. The president has responded to a severe, continuing labor market slump with a 4-year-old, marginally co...
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The worst financial scandal yet?Jul 17, 2012 5:00 am - If only one in four American adults can name his or her U.S. senators, we can assume that even fewer know what Libor is. Libor (pronounced lie-bor) is at the center of a...
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Joe Pa’s shameJul 16, 2012 5:00 am - Outside the Penn State football stadium stands a statue of legendary coach Joe Paterno, his arm raised in victory. Right next to it, university officials should erect an...
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Trolling for boosJul 16, 2012 5:00 am - We’re still a few weeks from summer’s dog days and the conventions, and already feral rabidity has set in. Add to the long list of psycho-political syndromes the “Romney...
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Trouble in the middleJul 15, 2012 5:00 am - A study out this week by the liberal Center for American Progress found that kids in the middle don’t think school is challenging enough. That’s right: According to the ...
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The Islamist ascendancyJul 13, 2012 3:37 pm - Post-revolutionary Libya appears to have elected a relatively moderate pro-Western government. Good news, but tentative because Libya is less a country than an oil well ...
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The numbers gameJul 13, 2012 5:00 am - President Obama’s attempt to spin the latest discouraging unemployment numbers as “a step in the right direction” is like telling passengers aboard the Titanic to ignore...
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Where they play, rich conservatives like zoningJul 12, 2012 10:10 am - Last weekend’s memorable photo is of Mitt Romney driving his massive powerboat past a privately built castle, not unlike his own, on New Hampshire’s Lake Winnipesaukee. ...