Articles filed under Opinion
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The ‘flexibility’ doctrineApr 02, 2012 5:00 am - “On all these issues, but particularly missile defense, this can be solved, but it’s important for him (Putin) to give me space. ... After my election, I have more flexi...
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Politics among the justicesApr 02, 2012 5:00 am - As was clear in this week’s arguments on the constitutionality of the health care reform law, today’s Supreme Court is as political as any institution in Washington. It ...
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Deluding ourselves on medical ‘cures’Apr 01, 2012 5:00 am - I’m glad I’m not the only one whose blood pressure rises every time a quick fix to a complex, multilayered medical conundrum spreads through the media despite researcher...
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Paul Ryan’s irreplaceable contributionApr 01, 2012 5:00 am - The first time Rep. Paul Ryan presented his budget, it was supposed to be fatal for the GOP. Ryan, after all, was not only touching the entitlement third rail but lickin...
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Cruising for a showdownMar 30, 2012 5:00 am - NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Ali Bokhari, 39, emigrated from Pakistan in 2000 and eventually settled here as a taxi driver and soon experienced a quintessentially American itch, ...
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Whether Obamacare wins or loses, Obama winsMar 30, 2012 5:00 am - Small wonder President Obama chose not to delay the U.S. Supreme Court case on his health care reforms until long after the election. His advisers are clearly in the lab...
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What America will look like if Obama’s re-electedMar 29, 2012 5:00 am - Politicians and presidents of both parties have occasionally suffered from open-mic syndrome, saying something when they thought the microphone was turned off they wishe...
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Repeal the ‘Stand Your Ground’ lawsMar 29, 2012 5:00 am - The “Stand Your Ground” laws in Florida and other states should all be repealed. At best, they are redundant. At worst, as in the Trayvon Martin killing, they are nothin...
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Scent of a buzzword: Keeping objectivity in the mainstreamMar 28, 2012 6:00 pm - We all know very well the injunction that a rose by any other name should smell as sweet. But in popular political practice today, it seems more common to find critics s...
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Mitt Romney and Mike DukakisMar 28, 2012 5:00 am - I’ve been waiting for it: the inevitable comparisons between the Massachusetts governor who ran for president (with my help) in 1988 and the former Massachusetts governo...