Articles filed under Opinion
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In classrooms, quality countsMar 12, 2012 5:00 am - Every few months, a handful of education reform advocates push the idea that the public education system's woes could be fixed if only there were more black or Hispanic ...
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Ten questions for Super TuesdayMar 11, 2012 4:00 am - 1. What were the Republicans thinking when they “reformed” their system to look more like the Democrats’ system? (Meanwhile, the Democrats have been trying to reform the...
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Obama vs. Israel: Priority No. 1? Stop IsraelMar 11, 2012 4:00 am - It’s Lucy and the football, Iran-style. After ostensibly tough talk about preventing Iran from going nuclear, the Obama administration acquiesced to yet another round of...
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A sincere apologyMar 08, 2012 12:41 pm - The first apology by Rush Limbaugh, posted on his website over the weekend, sounded forced, qualified, almost defensive. The second, broadcast live on his Monday show, s...
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Failing the test of political courageMar 08, 2012 12:24 pm - How’s this for political cowardice? Right-wing bloviator Rush Limbaugh launches a vile attack, full of sexual insults and smarmy innuendo, against a young woman whose on...
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Farewell, honored prophetMar 08, 2012 12:00 am - The most accomplished social scientist of the last half-century would occasionally visit his friend and Harvard colleague Pat Moynihan at the White House when Moynihan w...
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What Limbaugh is really aboutMar 08, 2012 12:00 am - Too bad the Republican candidates had to comment on Rush Limbaugh’s flaming attack on a female law student at Georgetown University. El Rushbo plays troubadour to the pa...
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Blog item: That jerk in the other carMar 07, 2012 12:00 am - My husband has started teaching our oldest son the rules of the road in anticipation of his getting behind the wheel. A few weeks ago, I heard my husband tell the impres...
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A battle, not a routMar 07, 2012 12:00 am - It is the temptation of the columnist to universalize the moment — to present transient trends as exceptional, predictive and permanent. A direction is presented as a de...
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The passing of a bomb-throwerMar 07, 2012 12:00 am - It is not nice to speak ill of the dead, my mother once told me. But it is OK, I think, to speak ill of those who praise the dead when the deceased was best known for sl...