Articles filed under Opinion
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In ‘rough draft,’ we err on the side of inclusionJul 12, 2012 10:10 am - The newspaper is sometimes called a rough draft of history. In that sense, the Letters to the Editor column, or Fence Post in the Daily Herald, can be very much like a r...
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Obama in denialJul 11, 2012 5:39 pm - One would think, given so much practice, that the Obama White House would have been better prepared for last week’s wretched jobs report. Instead, we witnessed the five ...
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The regulatory heavy handJul 11, 2012 5:00 am - PHOENIX — The federal government is a bull that has found yet another china shop, this time in Arizona. It seems determined to inflict, for angelic motives and progressi...
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Terror among the richJul 11, 2012 5:00 am - WESTHAMPTON BEACH, N.Y. -- It was a Romney weekend in the Hamptons. He went to three fundraisers, reportedly hauling in more than $3 million from the terrified rich who,...
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Words vs. deedsJul 10, 2012 5:00 am - CAMDEN — South Carolina politics never fails to amuse — and bemuse. A recent ethics imbroglio between Republican Gov. Nikki Haley and GOP activist John Rainey is a case...
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The money managerJul 09, 2012 10:26 am - You can conduct byzantine transactions through opaque investment accounts and private corporations in offshore tax havens such as Bermuda and the Cayman Islands. Or you ...
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Health care politics go into extra inningsJul 09, 2012 5:00 am - There was never much doubt that the individual mandate in “Obamacare” was constitutional. As Harvard Law School professor Einer Elhauge had noted, the first Congress in ...
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Finding freedom in circumcisionJul 09, 2012 5:00 am - “This is my covenant which you shall keep, between me and you and your descendants after you: Every male child among you shall be circumcised.” -- Genesis 17:10 A distr...
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Back in the USAJul 08, 2012 5:00 am - Some of my fondest memories of childhood are of the Fourth of July. In Swampscott, Mass., we used to have a parade of kids on bikes that went down Aspen Road and then ar...
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The imperial presidency revisitedJul 08, 2012 5:00 am - Though overshadowed by the shocking Supreme Court decision on health care, the court’s Arizona immigration decision, issued three days earlier, remains far more signific...