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May 31, 2014
Commentary: Fight heroin with some marijuana
A plague of heroin addiction is upon us. Another plague. Heroin was the crisis that prompted Richard Nixon to launch the war on drugs in 1971. Time marched on. Cocaine and then crack cocaine and then methamphetamine overtook heroin as the drugs of the moment. Now heroin is back —...
opinion / commentaryMay 31, 2014 - 1:00am
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April 10, 2014
Commentary: Let there be light on our health care spending
Foes of Obamacare often frame such health reforms as “redistribution” schemes. They take money from hardworking Americans and give it to the presumably undeserving. My conservative friends are right that a lot of health reform is about redistribution. What they get wrong are...
opinion / commentaryApril 10, 2014 - 4:00am
February 14, 2013
Commentary: The GOP is plagued by good news
By Froma Harrop MEDFORD, Ore. — “Obama says he’s going to make middle-class jobs,” the breakfast room troubadour bellowed at the Holiday Inn Express to those who wanted to listen — and to those who didn’t. “Did he make your job?” he went on, cornering a female employee....
opinion / commentaryFebruary 14, 2013 - 1:00am
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March 29, 2012
Commentary: Where does Romney have his home?
Mitt Romney has three houses. The former Massachusetts governor would like to do a $12 million "fix-up" on one of them, a beachfront property in La Jolla, Calif. The plan is to tear down the existing 3,000-square-foot structure and build an 8,100-square-foot replacement, plus a car...
opinion / commentaryMarch 29, 2012 - 12:00am
March 8, 2012
Commentary: After Snowe, is Brown next?
To many New Englanders, Olympia Snowe had come to resemble Marilyn of "The Munsters" TV family. The senator from Maine seemed a normal Northeast Republican surrounded by party leaders sprouting fangs and cooing at bats -- but who regarded her as the odd one. "You can't be too careful...
opinion / commentaryMarch 8, 2012 - 9:55am
March 7, 2012
Commentary: What's Rush Limbaugh really about?
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 party's right wing from his home in its entertainment wing. The business of the entertainment wing is show business....
opinion / commentaryMarch 7, 2012 - 12:00am
February 25, 2012
Commentary: If the Iron Lady had watched GOP debates ...
It's a good thing that the Margaret Thatcher we remember isn't running for president as a Republican. A conservative icon, she would nonetheless be tarred today as a "big government liberal," "raiser of taxes," "European socialist" and RINO, which stands for Republican in Name Only. The...
opinion / commentaryFebruary 25, 2012 - 12:00am
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February 14, 2012
Commentary: A French model for American parents: Opinion
One item in the annals of American exceptionalism is how exceptionally badly behaved American children are. We who hang around international airports often marvel at how European toddlers wait calmly while their American cohorts run down the halls or lie sprawled on the floor in a...
commentaryFebruary 14, 2012 - 12:00am
January 20, 2012
Commentary: We are all caught up in 'Downton Abbey' show
Every Sunday night, the mega-carriages drop millions of us off at "Downton Abbey," the hit PBS series about an aristocratic family, its English country estate and the complexities of being Them at the dawn of the 20th century. We revel in the patricians' finery, their posture, their...
opinion / commentaryJanuary 20, 2012 - 12:00am
December 9, 2011
Commentary: Newt and the Donald 'a-courting'
Liberals and conservatives both seem obsessed with the behavior of "the 1 percent," but there the similarity ends. Liberals seek to change the ways of the richest 1 percent, while many conservatives focus on the bottom 1 percent. The latter was on display as Republican Newt Gingrich...
opinion / commentaryDecember 9, 2011 - 12:00am
November 23, 2011
Commentary: Be happy you get to eat all you can on Thanksgiving
Americans typically eat over 1,000 meals a year. But for many, Thanksgiving dinner seems to be the one that, like a magnet, gathers the iron shavings of every food anxiety. Why should that be? You'd think that this feast with family and friends would be accepted for what it is --...
opinion / commentaryNovember 23, 2011 - 12:00am
August 26, 2011
Commentary: Sen. Brown is no cinch for Mass. re-election
When Scott Brown was elected U.S. senator from Massachusetts in a special election last year, Republicans rejoiced. They had wrested the Senate seat held by the late liberal icon Edward Kennedy in a Democratic stronghold. Brown remains quite popular at home. But as he faces the voters...
opinion / commentaryAugust 26, 2011 - 12:00am
August 25, 2011
Commentary: Immigration enforcement is already here in U.S.
Have you noticed that our immigration laws are finally being enforced? That illegal immigration is way down? That employers hiring undocumented workers are finally being punished? And that this is being done in the Democratic administration of President Barack Obama?
opinion / commentaryAugust 25, 2011 - 12:00am
June 17, 2011
Commentary: The right question for the defense budget
"Can we afford the military budget?'' Not quite the right question, but one being asked these days even in hawkish circles. It reflects a break in the Republicans' traditional reluctance to cut defense spending and a declining enthusiasm for changing other societies through force....
opinion / commentaryJune 17, 2011 - 12:00am
February 16, 2011
Commentary: Thankfully, Egypt did it without us
As a rationale for invading Iraq, then-National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice said: "The people of the Middle East share the desire for freedom. We have an opportunity -- and an obligation -- to help them turn this desire into reality." Yes they did, but no we didn't. The desire...
opinion / commentaryFebruary 16, 2011 - 12:00am
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