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Viewpoint: Michael Kinsley
feature From the Los Angeles Times: “Did you know that four of this year’s Republican candidates were personally recruited by God to run for president? Rick Perry, Herman Cain...
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Deporting parents to win votes
feature In the first half of this year, the Obama administration deported 46,000 parents with U.S.-born children, said Ruben Navarrette Jr. at the San Jose Mercury News.
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Viewpoint: Alan S. Blinder
feature From The Wall Street Journal: “Myth No. 1 is that the American people now demand deficit reduction as never before....
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Teens who can’t be embarrassed
feature How do you shame a generation without shame? asked Meghan Daum at the Los Angeles Times.
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Viewpoint: Joe Klein
feature From Time: “[Rick and Karen Santorum] have spent the past three years caring for their daughter Isabella, whose genetic defect...
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The GOP’s suicidal swing to the right
feature In recent years, the GOP’s best minds have stood mute while right-wing ideologues seized control of the party, said David Brooks at The New York Times.
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Viewpoint: Michael Gerson
feature From The Washington Post: “General Motors has announced the largest profits in its history. [Yet] both Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney have stumped across Michigan...
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Exaggerating the China threat
feature Is the U.S. “locked in a deadly struggle with Beijing”? asked Steve Chapman at the Chicago Tribune.
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Iran’s next attack might be here
feature The director of National Intelligence recently warned that as tensions with the West grow, Iran’s fanatical mullahs are “more willing to conduct an attack in the U.S.,” said Mitchell D. Silber at The Wall Street Journal.
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The need for a sane GO
feature America needs two parties to move forward into the 21st century; sadly, one is clamoring for a return to the 19th, said Thomas L. Friedman at The New York Times.
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What Clint didn’t say about Detroit
feature The government takeovers of Chrysler and GM were accomplished by legally dubious “executive high-handedness,” not “patriotic collective action,” said Rich Lowry at the New York Post.
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A modest proposal for bribing voters
feature Super PACs are just the start, said Steven Pearlstein at The Washington Post.
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The GOP needs to draft an alternative
feature Jeb Bush, whose “reform-oriented conservatism” made him a highly popular governor in Florida, is the only available Republican who might still be pressed into running, said Artur Davis at NationalReview.com.
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No spring for Egypt’s Christians
feature Egypt’s 8 million Coptic Christians have faced increased persecution and mob violence, and 100,000 Copts have already fled the country, said Ross Douthat at The New York Times.
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