May 12, 2012
Thank you, Navy SEALs, for killing Osama bin Laden. And thank you, President Obama, for turning them loose to do their job, just as you said you would.
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April 14, 2012
In the summer of 1985, Don Welke, a baseball scout for the Toronto Blue Jays, drove to Flint, Mich., to check out a high school pitching prospect. After silently observing the player for a few hours, he summarized his thoughts in his notebook as follow...
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March 2, 2012
Mitt Romney has missed several golden opportunities to turn this campaign's religious fixation to his advantage.
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February 7, 2012
If one ambition for your children is to see them join the 1 percent, you might want to re-evaluate their career paths.
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January 24, 2012
I'm not convinced that U.S. Marines actually urinated on Taliban corpses. I sure hope they didn't. Having watched the video many times, I'm still not sure what I'm seeing. At first blush, it looks like servicemen desecrating the dead bodies of battlefield...
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January 17, 2012
It was as if Oliver Stone had written a Mitt Romney sound bite when the candidate was quoted as saying, "I like firing people." After all, Stone directed Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, saying similar things in the 1987 movie classic Wall Stre...
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December 31, 2011
You'd think I would have learned my lesson. But at this time last year, I predicted six 2011 headlines, only one of which has appeared — below the Mendoza Line even for a columnist. To be fair, these were news items I wanted but did not necessarily...
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December 2, 2011
Say hello, wave goodbye.
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November 18, 2011
Among the many things that need to change in the aftermath of the Penn State scandal is Pennsylvania law. First, the commonwealth needs to require that any witness to child abuse must call the police. Second, the statute of limitations for civil claims...
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October 7, 2011
That too many African American children are growing up in single-parent households isn't news. But Stanford law professor Ralph Richard Banks has initiated a provocative debate that analyzes why black women are the most unpartnered group in our society...
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September 30, 2011
In every presidential campaign, a face in the crowd becomes a household name and makes a major impact on the race. Think Joe the Plumber or the Rev. Jeremiah Wright in 2008. Or Katherine Harris in 2000. Or Willie Horton in 1988. Rick Perry hopes that C...
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September 2, 2011
Last week, I lamented that the country is broke, poorly represented, lacking confidence in its leaders, and understandably pessimistic about government's ability to right the economic ship.
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August 26, 2011
I don't have a solution, but I do wish to propose a different way of approaching the problem.The problem is that first, the economy is in tatters. Unemployment hovers near 9 percent. Standard & Poor's has downgraded the nation's credit rating. U.S.
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August 19, 2011
I want to thank a family I do not know, but one I continue to hear about. Their plight is the talk of the Main Line.
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August 5, 2011
In 1984, I campaigned to be an elected alternate delegate (from Pennsylvania's Eighth Congressional District) to the Republican National Convention in Dallas. The process required that I get elector signatures for my name to appear on the ballot, solic...
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July 29, 2011
Muslim extremists. American heroes. Betrayed confidences. Barren landscapes. It's the stuff of a summer thriller, but sadly, Joby Warrick's spellbinding book The Triple Agent: The al-Qaeda Mole Who Infiltrated the CIA is a work of nonfiction. And in th...
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July 22, 2011
Michele Bachmann, meet Ben Haney.
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July 15, 2011
In the aftermath of the Casey Anthony verdict, jury-bashing is back in style -- ironically, just as a new documentary is showing how one of the most criticized verdicts in history was misunderstood.
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July 8, 2011
Why is there always such poor advance work when it comes to presidential candidates and theme songs? Every four years, it seems, someone uses a song without getting the necessary clearance. You'd think politicians would learn from their predecessors' m...
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July 1, 2011
Chris Christie should run for president now, assuming he aspires to ever hold that office. The GOP field for 2012 remains wide open, while there is no telling how a 2016 (or later) field could shape up. The economy is the focal point this cycle, so Chr...
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June 24, 2011
Trials of the century aren't what they used to be. Take the long Casey Anthony murder trial in Florida. The mother, 25, has been charged with murdering her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee.
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June 17, 2011
Much has changed since Mitt Romney last ran for president. The economy has gotten worse, the Phillies assembled the best starting rotation in baseball, and the United States killed Osama bin Laden.
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June 10, 2011
It was no surprise to me that Chris Christie took heat for using a state helicopter to attend his son's baseball game, but I'm not thinking of the wrath of New Jersey taxpayers. If his house is anything like mine, he has bigger problems on the home fro...
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June 4, 2011
Mitch Daniels would have added some much-needed substance to the national dialogue. His reason for not running for president is a sad commentary on the sideshow our elections have become.
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May 28, 2011
Jason Lamoreaux will graduate June 14 from Upper Merion High School. Last year at this time, he was navigating the college-application process, which includes the writing of a personal statement and this dilemma: Do I tell them what I think, or what I thi...
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