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US can stimulate now, cut deficit later
By PETER ORSZAG | Saturday, May 26, 2012
From 2017-22, Social Security’s normal retirement age is scheduled to gradually increase to 67. And I’ll bet that not only happens as planned, but does …
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Charter school path to teacher quality
By FRED HIATT | Friday, May 25, 2012
Most parents know who are the great teachers in their schools and who are the teachers to avoid. So, on one level, the resistance to …
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Ambitious third-party movement fizzles
By MICHAEL SMERCONISH | Thursday, May 24, 2012
So Americans Elect wasn’t a subterfuge for Michael Bloomberg, Colin Powell or Jon Huntsman after all. Too bad. Americans have demonstrated their desire for an …
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US could learn from Aesop’s Fables
By CAL THOMAS | Wednesday, May 23, 2012
In the Aesop Fable “The Grasshopper and the Ant,” there are moral, economic and political lessons for our time or any other. As the story …
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Grief is normal, not a mental illness
By FROMA HARROP | Tuesday, May 22, 2012
We moderns seem determined to suppress all unhappiness with one exception: grief. The intense sadness following loss of a loved one still occupies a warm …
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Much too soon to count tea party out
By CARL P. LEUBSDORF | Monday, May 21, 2012
On the eve of his victory over Senate icon Richard Lugar, Indiana conservative Richard Mourdock paraphrased a Mark Twain comment by noting that reports of …
Guest Commentary
LGC editorial missed an important point
By DAVID FRYDMAN | Sunday, May 20, 2012
On May 17, The Telegraph published an editorial that was critical of a recent New Hampshire Supreme Court decision involving the Professional Fire Fighters of …
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Some willing to make tough choices on federal budget
By ROBERT L. BIXBY | Sunday, May 20, 2012
Elected officials face some big fiscal decisions this year. Should cuts in federal income taxes and Social Security taxes be extended? Should “automatic” spending cuts …
Guest Commentary
Lawmakers set to undo Circuit Court achievements
Sunday, May 20, 2012
In 2011, less than one year ago, the court system proposed a dramatic restructuring of its trial courts, adopting a business model that we believed …
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US heading for ‘fiscal cliff’ or mirage?
By CHARLES LANE | Sunday, May 20, 2012
When Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke, Pimco Chief Executive Mohamed el-Erian and the Economist all say we should worry about something, we usually should. …
Joe Konopka
Network news let down public in Trayvon Martin case
Joe Konopka | Sunday, May 20, 2012
Several weeks ago, I watched Manchester demonstrators on Channel 9 with disbelief. They waved signs demanding justice for Trayvon Martin’s Feb. 26 death. Why? Not …
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Is the filibuster unconstitutional?
By EZRA KLEIN | Saturday, May 19, 2012
According to Best Lawyers – “the oldest and most respected peer-review publication in the legal profession” – Emmet Bondurant “is the go-to lawyer when a …
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US better off when bankers were boring
By HAROLD MEYERSON | Friday, May 18, 2012
“As a group,” the economist Robert Lekachman wrote in 1976, “economists are slightly more entertaining than bankers and a trifle duller than lawyers.” Bankers, please …
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Long march to altar can’t be stopped
By BARBARA SHELLY | Thursday, May 17, 2012
One day, voters in North Carolina enshrine in their constitution that gay men and lesbian women shall not enjoy the same privileges as heterosexual couples. …
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PBS’ ‘Finding Your Roots’ must-see TV
By CAL THOMAS | Wednesday, May 16, 2012
“Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates Jr.” is another of the Harvard professor’s wonderful television series for PBS. This is “must-see TV” and a …
