Articles filed under Opinion
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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, ...
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Dumb money for dummiesJun 05, 2012 5:00 am - In the beginning, there was pump and dump. In the dot-com bubble of the late ’90s, the stock-analyzing arms of investment banks would pump up a new stock’s price with ra...
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Wisconsin’s temper tantrumJun 05, 2012 5:00 am - I’ll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up. No sir, Not I, Not me, So there! -- “Peter Pan” the musical, 1954 WAUWATOSA, Wis. -- This state, the first to let...
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America and future warsJun 04, 2012 5:00 am - On Sunday, Sept. 2, 1945, aboard the battleship USS Missouri at the end of ceremonies marking the unconditional surrender of Japan and the formal end of World War II, Ge...
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Joe Biden and the use of empathyJun 03, 2012 5:00 am - What to make of Vice President Joe Biden? Sometimes he is gaffe-prone comic relief. Sometimes he is the possessor of the worst geopolitical judgment in Washington — as w...
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Romney plays his Trump cardJun 01, 2012 1:09 pm - Donald Trump has said he would be “open” to accepting a Cabinet post if Mitt Romney becomes president. Trump would prefer “a position where I negotiate against some of t...
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Taking the rule of law for grantedJun 01, 2012 5:00 am - On May 25, the Radcliffe Institute honored Margaret Marshall, aka Margie, the brilliant and charismatic former Chief Justice (first woman) of the Massachusetts Supreme J...
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Egg on Face(book)May 31, 2012 5:00 am - There will be investigations and already there are lawsuits over the rollout of Facebook’s overhyped initial public offering, but no investigation is necessary into the ...
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The ‘geezers’ are right this timeMay 30, 2012 11:49 am - Alan Simpson let loose at a group of Californians who charged in a brochure that he and Erskine Bowles were “using the deficit to gut our Social Security.” The former Re...
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A liberal squeeze playMay 30, 2012 5:00 am - In one of his characteristic conniptions about people who frustrated him, Theodore Roosevelt, progressivism’s first president, said of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, “I ...