Articles filed under Opinion
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In search of 'neuter' judgesMay 02, 2011 12:00 am - Many years ago, the late and great U.S. District Court Judge Constance Baker Motley of the Southern District of New York was assigned to hear a case alleging sex discrim...
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Justice has been doneMay 02, 2011 12:00 am - “Ding dong the witch is dead!” As crowds gathered outside the White House, at the site of ground zero, and in other public places to cheer news of the death of Osama bin...
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A foreign policy of leading from behindMay 01, 2011 12:00 am - Obama may be moving toward something resembling a doctrine. One of his advisers described the president's actions in Libya as “leading from behind.” #8212; Ryan...
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In defense of the mom-and-pop storeMay 01, 2011 12:00 am - I found this quote, buried in a news story about rising prices in China: “I hear that many Chinese exporters are rejecting orders from Walmart and other Western retaile...
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What the people are saying counts mostApr 28, 2011 12:00 am - What is it about the word “jobs” that our nation’s leaders fail to understand? How has the most painful economic crisis in decades somehow escaped their notice? Why do t...
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Who's passing, who's failing the deficit testApr 28, 2011 12:00 am - The deficit debate, now fully engaged, is also an evaluation of political seriousness. House Republican leaders have passed the test, supporting a politically risky bud...
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One news source still respects rational thoughtApr 27, 2011 12:00 am - What is it about human nature that so makes us want to accept conspiracy theories about obvious falsehoods? Paul McCartney is dead ... Tupac Shakur is alive ... Fluo...
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A general deserving of no honorsApr 26, 2011 12:00 am - It has taken a while, but it’s about time Robert E. Lee lost the Civil War. The South of course was defeated on the battlefield in 1865, yet the Lee legend — swaddled in...
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Closing school doors, opening new pathsApr 26, 2011 12:00 am - KANSAS CITY, Mo. — John Covington hesitated before becoming this city’s 26th school superintendent in 40 years. A blunt-talking African-American from Alabama, he attende...
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Ayn Rand's adult-onset adolescenceApr 25, 2011 12:00 am - The movie “Atlas Shrugged,” adapted from Ayn Rand's 1957 novel by the same name, is a triumph of cinematic irony. A work that lectures us endlessly on the moral superior...