George Will |
February 4, 2012
Focusing on world of fatherlessness
LOS ANGELES — The worst day of Sugar Bear’s 55 years was one of the days — there have been many of them — when he got out of prison. In the early 1990s, in a prison where persons whose sentences have ended and are being released, and who see those whose sentences are just beginning, he saw one of his sons coming in.
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February 3, 2012
Feb. 3, 1959: The music didn’t really die
The Jan. 20 death of 72-year-old rhythm-and-blues legend Etta James, just three days after the death of her mentor, bandleader Johnny Otis, is a sad reminder that the early pioneers of rock-n-roll are a dying breed.
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February 2, 2012
Prognosis for tax reform is poor
WASHINGTON — Almost everyone favors “tax reform” in the abstract: Broaden the tax base by reducing deductions, credits and other tax breaks; and then cut top tax rates. But this sort of sweeping tax reform usually is a political nonstarter, and if you want to understand why, take a look at the tax proposals in President Obama’s State of the Union address.
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February 1, 2012
Romney, Gingrich and lessons of 1948
The Republican presidential race proves that Karl Marx was right: When history repeats itself, it occurs first as tragedy and then as farce. Fortunately, both can be instructive.
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January 31, 2012
Is U.S. facing a brighter energy future?
WASHINGTON — A week after President Obama denied the application for the Keystone XL pipeline — which would carry oil from Canada’s tar sands deposits in Alberta to U.S. refineries along the Gulf of Mexico — it’s time for an energy reality check. What’s the future hold? It might be better than you think. That’s one message from the U.S.
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Charles Krauthammer |
January 30, 2012
Obama’s State of the Union failures
WASHINGTON - Once upon a time, small ball was not Barack Obama’s game. Tuesday, it was the essence of his State of the Union Address.
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January 30, 2012
Others must heed lessons of PSU Sandusky scandal
Penn State University’s Jerry Sandusky sex-abuse scandal will continue to provide lessons to other universities — and others — on how not to react to such troublesome issues.
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