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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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Editor's Letter: Groping our way forward
feature In moments of distress and panic, it is tempting to succumb to ideologies that promise a single, simple solution to the mess that is the human condition.
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Editor's Letter: The generational divide
feature For the first time, the president of the United States is younger than I am.
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Editor's Letter: Some perspective on the word "mastermind"
feature Why are we calling thugs, zealots, and swindlers masterminds?
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Editor's Letter
feature Exoticism is in the beholder’s eye.
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Editor's Letter: Obama’s historic shout-out
feature About 50 million Americans are atheist or religiously unaffiliated, yet before President Obama included "nonbelievers" in his inaugural address they were absent from today's political rhetoric.
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Editor's Letter: Conflict and moral clarity
feature Watching how children play army can be instructive. When I was a kid in Ohio, for example, we didn't want to play Vietnam—we wanted to fight the Nazis.
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Editor's Letter: The Outrage Game
feature It seems that a day doesn’t go by without some offended party demanding an apology for some arguably outrageous slur.
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Editor's Letter: A margin for error
feature The Metropolitan Transportation Authority's admission that it keeps two train schedules for its commuter lines—one for the public and one for train crews—is the most cheering news I’ve heard in ages. <
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Editor's Letter: Bob Dole sends his regrets
feature Political gamesmanship and health reform
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