Articles filed under Opinion
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The 9/11 ‘overreaction”? Nonsense.Sep 12, 2011 12:00 am - The new conventional wisdom on 9/11: We have created a decade of fear. We overreacted to 9/11 — al-Qaida turned out to be a paper tiger; there never was a second attack ...
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Recognize that it’s overSep 12, 2011 12:00 am - The war our enemies began on Sept. 11, 2001, is long over. Perhaps now, after 10 years of anxiety and self-doubt, we can acknowledge our victory and begin the postwar re...
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A ruling’s valuable rehabilitationSep 09, 2011 5:00 am - Liberal certitudes continue to dissolve, the most recent solvent being a robust new defense of a 1905 Supreme Court decision that liberals have long reviled — and misrep...
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A health, not an image, issueSep 09, 2011 5:00 am - Half the United States will be obese by 2030 unless government interventions — making healthy foods cheaper, junk food more expensive, and regulating the marketing of un...
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In a cloud over ozoneSep 08, 2011 12:00 am - Republicans are trying to sell the false premise that protecting the environment inevitably means sacrificing jobs. President Obama should denounce this snake oil for wh...
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A key reason to remember 9/11Sep 08, 2011 12:00 am - The show business publication “Variety” reports “40-plus programs expected to commemorate 10th anniversary of (9/11) attacks.” And those are just the specials. They don’...
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A key reason to remember 9/11Sep 07, 2011 11:00 pm - The show business publication “Variety” reports “40-plus programs expected to commemorate 10th anniversary of (9/11) attacks.” And those are just the specials. They don’...
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Some questions for GOP’s ‘decision time’Sep 07, 2011 4:00 am - Wednesday’s Republican “debate” in California will not resemble the 1858 Lincoln-Douglas debates, in which one candidate spoke for 60 minutes, the other responded for 90...
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The day of terror that never endsSep 07, 2011 4:00 am - The teacher stands before a class of young men. He is flanked by open windows. A military parade passes outside the school and martial music fills the classroom. The tea...
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Perry’s campaign against the new dealSep 06, 2011 5:00 am - It is an ideological milestone that the emerging Republican front-runner is as skeptical of the New Deal as anyone in his position since the New Deal. During the 1936 el...