Articles filed under Opinion
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Romney’s strategic failure on immigrationJul 01, 2012 5:00 am - Washington, in common with Rome or Qom, periodically defers to the judgments of the impressively robed — the ex cathedra portion of the political season. The constitutio...
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Supreme politicsJul 01, 2012 5:00 am - You have to hand it to the chief justice. He saved the health care bill and with it, perhaps, the Supreme Court’s reputation as something other than the third branch of ...
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The bigger pictureJun 29, 2012 5:00 am - The political impact of Thursday’s stunning Supreme Court decision on health care reform is clear — good for President Obama and the Democrats, bad for Mitt Romney and t...
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The consolation prizeJun 28, 2012 2:23 pm - Conservatives won a substantial victory on Thursday. The physics of American politics — actions provoking reactions — continues to move the crucial debate, about the nat...
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Death be not proudJun 28, 2012 5:00 am - No doubt it’s the mark of getting older, but hardly a week goes by when a death — of someone I know or someone I know of — doesn’t hit me in the gut. When I was younger ...
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Our evolving thoughts on punishmentJun 28, 2012 5:00 am - “Even if it could be demonstrated unequivocally that (public flogging and hand branding) were not cruel and unusual measures in 1791 ... I doubt whether any federal judg...
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Britain’s object lesson on ObamacareJun 27, 2012 5:00 am - BELFAST, Northern Ireland — Regardless of how the Supreme Court rules on the “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act,” the Obama administration has indicated it will...
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The unexciting presidential campaignJun 27, 2012 5:00 am - If the presidential campaign were a TV program, it would have been canceled by now. Viewers have clicked off, stupefied by a campaign that has one overriding issue, the ...
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The Romneys’ horse senseJun 26, 2012 5:00 am - The punch line is at least as old as the eldest baby boomer: “I didn’t get a pony.” Here’s Jerry Seinfeld: “I hated those kids (who had ponies). In fact, I hate anyone ...
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The long, hot summer of workJun 25, 2012 12:39 pm - With summer’s arrival comes a journalistic convention that seems more and more dated. It is the “summer reading list” of books, often beside a graphic showing a bathing ...