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A step toward balance
Columns and Blogs Comments Updated: Apr 13, 2013 9:00pmYou have to walk before you can run, and before you can learn to walk, you have to take baby steps. Maybe that’s what just happened in Washington with President Obama’s budget proposal.
His...
Smith’s invisible hand cracks whip
Columns and Blogs Comments Updated: Apr 13, 2013 9:00pmRecently, Forbes.com released an interesting tidbit about global wealth. Of the roughly seven billion people roaming our bright blue sphere, just 1426 of them have amassed a net wealth in excess...
What are we afraid of?
Columns and Blogs Comments Updated: Apr 12, 2013 9:00pm“What are we afraid of?”
Sen. John McCain posed that question to fellow Republicans who vow to filibuster any bill mandating universal background checks on gun purchases. There are three...
Science, Sex and Birth Control
Columns and Blogs Comments Updated: Apr 11, 2013 10:00pmDemocrats claim we have one party that upholds science and one that rejects it. When it comes to climate change, presidential polling, evolution and other topics, we are told, Republicans have no...
Does government need the veto?
Columns and Blogs Comments Updated: Apr 11, 2013 10:00pmThe comic Robin Williams used to joke, not particularly accurately, that neither police officers nor criminals in England carried guns, so all the officer could say was, “Stop! Or I’ll say, ‘Stop...
Tests and Tiger Moms
Columns and Blogs Comments Updated: Apr 10, 2013 9:00pmNew York City’s Stuyvesant High School is one of those all too rare public schools for intellectually outstanding students. Such students are often bored to death in schools where the work is...
House holds the key on private option
Columns and Blogs Comments Updated: Apr 10, 2013 9:00pmThe problem was always going to be the House of Representatives.
The shrewdest technicians of the Republican majorities in both chambers engineered an end-around of a simple expansion of the...
Crawford vs. Obamacare
Columns and Blogs Comments Updated: Apr 09, 2013 9:00pmCongressman Rick Crawford has been clear on one thing since he began running for office in 2010 — he opposes health care reform touted by President Obama.
However, after three years in...
What’s worse than horse slaughter?
Columns and Blogs Comments Updated: Apr 09, 2013 9:00pmWhen it comes to government action, the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Hold down gasoline prices to help motorists, and you create shortages. Punish landlords to protect tenants, and...
The five most important words
Columns and Blogs Comments Updated: Apr 08, 2013 9:00pmWhen Steve was an undergraduate at Harvard 50 years ago, a young government instructor repeated the same admonition whenever he handed back an assignment: “This is not good enough.” Those were the...