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Editor's Letter: "The Ways of Washington"
feature President Obama vowed to bring in an era of clean government, but cognitive dissonance has set in early with the nomination of several candidates who don't meet the new standards.
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Editor's Letter: A hunger for heroes
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Editor's Letter: Is there a Zzzz plan?
feature A friend of mine, who played a senior role in John McCain's presidential campaign, understands the fatigue that sets in and marvels at the stamina shown by Obama and his team.
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Editor's Letter: “I hope he fails”
feature When ideology leads people to hope for the worst
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Editor's Letter: The information consumer
feature May the new year bring us all more wisdom, and not quite so many zettabytes.
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Editor's Letter: Political swordsmanship
feature National politics, always a rough game, has devolved into something meaner, more personal—a blood feud. The primary agenda now is to score points, and to damage the other party whenever possible.
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Editor's Letter: Taking care of their own
feature People have an instinct to take care of their own, but depending on the circumstances, this bit of human nature can be problematic and even scandalous.
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Editor's Letter: A new era of “duck and cover”
feature Decades of living under nuclear threat during the Cold War fostered a fatalism that tempered the jitters and allowed us to laugh in the face of existential peril. Will we someday muster a similarly cheeky response to the era of color-coded alarms
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Editor's Letter: Say again, who is accountable?
feature Democrats have been reminding us that President Bush didn’t fire a single official in the wake of 9/11. When Democrats are citing Bush as a role model, something certainly must be amiss.
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Editor's Letter: Claiming George Washington
feature Today's Tea Partyers pay homage to George Washington, but they should also remember that Washington didn't fully support the original tea party, and that he was decidedly hostile to an anti-tax rebellion during his presidency.
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Editor's Letter: Our country’s future
feature Do we accept painful tax increases at virtually every level of income—or do we drastically reduce our ambitions, and our expectations?
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Editor's Letter: Online ads and precise optimization
feature Marketers are starting to employ a new technology, dubbed real-time bidding, that enables them to target messages based on what we’re doing online at that very moment.
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Editor's Letter: Beyond Arizona
feature It’s not just Arizona. When it comes to illegal immigration, the nation is in a foul mood.
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Editor's Letter: Good cheer for the Fourth
feature With oil menacing our shores and enmity and suspicion tearing at our polity this Fourth, we can all use a story too good to check.
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