Articles filed under Opinion
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Europe may decide Obama’s fateJun 12, 2012 5:00 am - LONDON — Some think Ohio will decide the presidential election. Others are watching Florida, or North Carolina or Wisconsin. But if you really want to know who will win ...
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Zero-sum means everybody losesJun 10, 2012 5:00 am - For all the hype about the Wisconsin recall election echoing across America, dear reader, you wouldn’t know it ended with a whimper, not a bang. The pollsters were sayin...
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What Wisconsin means to unionsJun 10, 2012 5:00 am - Tuesday, June 5, 2012, will be remembered as the beginning of the long decline of the public-sector union. It will follow, and parallel, the shrinking of private-sector ...
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Growing independence from both partiesJun 08, 2012 11:33 am - In his 2007 book, “The Great Upheaval: America and the Birth of the Modern World, 1788-1800,” historian Jay Winik writes that among Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton ...
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Playing with dynamite over pensionsJun 08, 2012 5:00 am - Gov. Scott Walker’s decisive victory in Wisconsin admits to a number of plausible explanations: a rejection of overreach in the use of recall elections, a repudiation of...
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Praise for a one-ballot primaryJun 08, 2012 5:00 am - My right-wing friend, ginned up (literally) from his team’s impending “victory” in Wisconsin, called me on Tuesday night. I took some of his glow off by noting that I, t...
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Newspapers and the role of listening in public debateJun 07, 2012 5:00 am - And listen to others. Even the dull and ignorant. They too have their stories. --”Desiderata,” Max Ehrmann What is so bad about listening, especially about listening to ...
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But can the candidates sing?Jun 07, 2012 5:00 am - All the world’s a stage, all right, and never so much as when presidential politics are in play. But reality transcended metaphor Monday when crooner-in-chief Barack Ob...
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Air support for our local communitiesJun 06, 2012 5:00 am - Just over a year ago, when a devastating tornado ripped through Joplin, Mo., only 500 miles southwest of here, organizations and individuals from around the region and t...
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Romney’s faith is his businessJun 06, 2012 5:00 am - The most popular item on The Washington Post’s website on Sunday was a very good article by Jason Horowitz headlined “Is Mitt Romney’s Mormonism fair game?” The answer, ...