Articles filed under Opinion
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Obamacare in critical conditionDec 15, 2010 10:00 pm - The ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Henry E. Hudson that the Affordable Care Act, also known as “Obamacare,” unconstitutionally imposes a requirement that everyone c...
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Who do you think made the suburbs better this year?Dec 14, 2010 10:00 pm - Memory Lane. When you travel the course of any year, you can't avoid ending up here. It's the place where, while taking stock of your life and preparing for a new year a...
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'Cyberwar' affects us allDec 14, 2010 10:00 pm - The most important legacy of the WikiLeaks affair will almost surely be the rapidly escalating cyberwar that the group's renegade disclosures have sparked. If you think ...
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Respect China but not its brutal oppressionDec 13, 2010 10:00 pm - One of the more frightening aspects of China's persecution of Liu Xiaobo, the imprisoned dissident and this year's Nobel Peace Prize winner, is that the government never...
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Social mobility first step toward progressDec 13, 2010 10:00 pm - Passing the tax compromise between President Obama and congressional Republicans would be a notable achievement but mainly a negative one. It would avoid a contraction ...
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Democrats and addiction to governmentDec 12, 2010 10:00 pm - The “grand bargain” agreed to by the White House to preserve the Bush-era tax rates, extend unemployment insurance for another year and reduce the payroll tax for 2011 d...
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For Obama's critics, grow upDec 12, 2010 10:00 pm - This is how bad things have gotten in Washington, and how broken our politics has become. President Obama is being unmercifully and unfairly pummeled by congressional De...
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It's grow-up time in AmericaDec 11, 2010 10:00 pm - Thanks to WikiLeaks, even Vlad the Putin can raise an eyebrow and presume to know more about founding American principles, democracy and free speech. It is convenient t...
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Congress: Hold your nose and back compromiseDec 10, 2010 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- Approve the lousy deal. It pains me to write those words, because the agreement President Obama negotiated with Republicans on tax cuts is really quite aw...
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Obama's clever tax deal is really a huge swindleDec 10, 2010 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- Barack Obama won the great tax-cut showdown of 2010 -- and House Democrats don't have a clue that he did. In the deal struck this week, the president negot...