COMMENTARY
Commentary: Catholic wars where nuns are very right
The nuns are right. The bishops are wrong.By Susan Estrich , March 20, 2010
Commentary: Betting (again) on a new fix for education in U.S.
WASHINGTON — Doubling down on dubious bets is characteristic of compulsive gamblers and federal education policy. The nation was essentially without such policy for grades K through 12, and better off for that, until 1965. In that year of liberals living exuberantly, they produced the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. Now yet another president has announced yet another plan to fix education. His aspiration has a discouraging pedigree.By George WIll , March 19, 2010
Commentary: Immigration, the sequel has returned
SAN DIEGO — The immigration debate is back. And it’s hard to find anyone who is pleased to see it return.By Ruben Navarrette , March 19, 2010
Commentary: On health care reform, it is time to listen to the nuns
WASHINGTON — One of the tragedies of the viciously politicized battle over health care reform is the defection of the nation’s Roman Catholic bishops from a cause they have championed for decades.By E.J. Dionne , March 18, 2010
Comentary: A strategy of sneak and sprin
WASHINGTON — As Democrats consider shoving health care reform through the House with a process known as “deem and pass,” it is helpful to return to square one and ask: What, again, is the rush?By Kathleen Parker , March 18, 2010
Commentary: The deliberation and the hypocrisy of health care 
WASHINGTON — For those who feared that Barack Obama did not have any Lyndon Johnson in him, the president’s determination to press ahead and get health care reform done in the face of Republican intransigence came as something of a relief.
By E.J. Dionne , March 11, 2010
Commentary: Obama: Is not gutless after all
The right accuses Barack Obama of dragging the country way left, and the left calls him gutless. The president is proving both of them wrong.
By Froma Harrop , March 11, 2010
Commentary: The Volcher rule: Beware Gremlins in Guccis
A big chunk of rock went missing from Mount Rushmore when Paul Volcker broke away in 2008 to stand stony-faced behind candidate Barack Obama. The former Federal Reserve chairman served as a reassuring presence from an older, more orderly financial era that had been sacrificed on the altar of deregulation. Volcker has since written the “Volcker rule,” a formula for preventing another near-collapse of our financial system and accompanying government bailout.
By Froma Harrop , March 10, 2010
Commentary; Down this road before
SAN DIEGO — Just when you thought the health care debate couldn’t get any more bizarre, it surpasses expectations.
March 10, 2010
Commentary: Draining the swamp?
Before Rep. Nancy Pelosi became speaker of the House, she promised during the Bush administration that if voters allowed Democrats to regain a congressional majority, Democrats would establish “the most ethical Congress in history.” Pelosi pledged to “drain the swamp” of corruption in Washington.
By Cal Thomas , March 09, 2010
Commentary: When conviction demands courage
Googling to my heart’s content on a recent eve, I decided to match “health care” with “ram” to see what would happen. What I got was about 9.8 million hits, some of them right on the nose and reflecting the current conservative meme that after more than a year, several votes, countless presidential speeches and having to look upon the face of Harry Reid some 10,000 times, the health care bill is being “rammed” through Congress — an absurdity that now has currency through sheer repetition. It is not exactly the renowned vaunted Big Lie, just a miserable little one.
By Richard Cohen , March 09, 2010
Commentary: Protection from sex offenders
SAN DIEGO — Like most in the San Diego area — especially those of us who are parents — I’ve spent the last few days processing the events surrounding the murder of 17-year-old Chelsea King with a mixture of sadness, frustration and rage. Mostly rage.
March 06, 2010
Commentary: Gun laws: Can Chicago do what D.C. cannot
WASHINGTON — It is said, more frequently than precisely, that the reasons the Supreme Court gives for doing whatever it does are as important as what it does. Actually, the court’s reasons are what it does. Hence, the interest in the case the Supreme Court considered this past week.
March 06, 2010
Commentary: Where the nanny and welfare state meet
SAN DIEGO — At the intersection of the nanny state and the welfare state is a bill in the California Legislature that would make it easier for food stamp recipients to buy fruits and vegetables.
March 05, 2010
Commentary: A new ‘cure’ for eccentrics
WASHINGTON — Peter De Vries, America’s wittiest novelist, died 17 years ago but his discernment of this country’s cultural foibles still amazes. In a 1983 novel, he spotted the tendency of America’s therapeutic culture to medicalize character flaws:
March 05, 2010
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