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Blood money from a drunken driver
feature It’s hard to decide what’s more infuriating: Donte Stallworth getting away with murder, or Mario Reyes’ family putting a price on a human life—and justice, said Bob Weir in RealClearPolitics.c
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The drug problem we ignore
feature In our “censorious’’ public discussions about substance abuse, drinking often gets a pass, said Frank Bruni at The New York Times.
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Viewpoint: David Brooks
feature From The New York Times: “Fitness inequality is acceptable. It is perfectly fine to wear tight workout sweats to show the world that...
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America is sick of war
feature “Republicans who think America is being endangered by ‘appeasement’ and military parsimony have worked that pedal on their organ quite enough," said George Will at The Washington Post.
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Snowden’s silence on Putin
feature If Edward Snowden truly is a moral paragon, then he should announce that he can no longer stomach Vladimir Putin’s oppressive behavior.
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The smug confidence of libertarians
feature Why are most libertarians white dudes?
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The hidden benefits of a winning team
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How Roe became irrelevant
feature Roe v. Wade is gradually being worn away by a host of state regulations that will soon make it “all but impossible” to terminate a pregnancy in many states, said Dahlia Lithwick in Slate.com.
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Viewpoint: David Brooks
feature From The New York Times: “There are now two conservatives in this country for every liberal....
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The price we paid for torture
feature A former U.S. military interrogator in Iraq says it isn't necessary to use torture to extract information from hardened terrorists; it instills foreign jihadists with a desire for revenge and costs the lives of American soldiers.
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Why scandal won’t sink Ron Paul
feature Paul’s ragtag coalition just wants to keep their “anti–drug war, anti-tax spokesman on the debate stage next to Mitt Romney,” said David Weigel at Slate.com.
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A sex scandal for the Internet age
feature For generations, congressmen and senators have cheated on their wives in Washington, but the Web has changed the rules of the game, said Michelle Cottle on TheDailyBeast.com.
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Obama’s hypocrisy on gas prices
feature President Obama is pretending to be upset about rising gas prices, said Jack Kelly in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, but expensive oil actually suits his administration’s goals.
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