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Libya’s lesson for North Korea
feature Once again, the U.S. has proved that dictators have only one “true security guarantee”: nukes, said Mira Rapp-Hooper and Kenneth N. Waltz at TheAtlantic.com.
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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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How morality became obsolete
feature “I guess what makes something right is how I feel about it,” is a typical refrain, said David Brooks at The New York Times.
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Bin Laden’s secret stash of porn
feature “Islam has a very rich tradition of sacred sexuality and eroticism,” but extremists have turned that tradition rancid with their misogyny, said Asra Q. Nomani in TheDailyBeast.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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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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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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Viewpoint: Ezra Klein
feature From the WashingtonPost.com: “The next president, whoever he is, will enjoy a ‘recovery presidency,’ and so too will his party....
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Why black women can’t be ‘angry’
feature A new book about the Obamas portrays the First Lady as a pushy in-fighter who clashed with former presidential aides Rahm Emanuel and Robert Gibbs, said Laura Washington at the Chicago Sun-Times.
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Obama isn’t evil—he’s just bad at his job
feature Republicans should be wary of turning the 2012 election into “a national repudiation” of Obama, the Democratic Party, and progressivism itself, said Kevin Williamson at NationalReview.com.
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How to save the U.S. Postal Service
feature Unlike the post office, which has a monopoly on letter delivery, FedEx and UPS have had to compete for customers by boosting quality and holding prices down, said Jeff Jacoby at The Boston Globe.
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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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California can’t afford bullet trains
feature High-speed rail is nothing but a gold-plated fantasy, and “it’s still not too late to hit the brakes,” said Charles Lane at The Washington Post.
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The truth about ‘secular’ America
feature As America has become more secular in recent decades, “most indicators of moral and social health have gotten better, not worse,” said Steve Chapman at the Chicago Tribune.
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