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She Would Have Turned 60 Today
I wrote this in 2010, but have not published it until today, February 28, 2020. I wrote the headline today, but I have not otherwise updated time references. Twenty-seven years ago, on October 16, 1983,…
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Dictionaries: A Modern-Day Morality Play
“If you don’t look up the words you don’t know, you don’t deserve the beauty of literature,” my teacher said. Four decades later I still feel the lash in her voice.
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Seeking More Muslim Heroes
Unlike the thugs who killed him, Merabet had assimilated into French society, while retaining his Muslim identity.
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Brush With Greatness: Fouad Ajami, 1945-2014
Professor Ajami never wavered in his belief that America made the right choice by overthrowing Saddam Hussein. I wholeheartedly share that viewpoint.
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A Personal Message of Joy, to Several Constituencies
In which your scribe celebrates the gift of a new job.
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Marriage Equality: 33 States to Go …
I’m thrilled that my home state of New Mexico is the latest to recognize the right of marriage equality for same-sex couples. ¡Arriba! (The snippet above started as a simple Facebook post, but FB insisted…
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Those Who Use Mandela’s Death to Demonize the Right Would Do Well to Follow His Example
Whatever sins Mandela may have committed before prison were more than balanced by his consistent devotion to healing and reconciliation afterward.
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Giving Thanks for Our Country and Those Who Defend It
Stay safe, Son, as you return from your final deployment and rejoin your bride and stepson.
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The Biggest Loser This Week Isn’t Obama — It’s the Health Insurance Industry
Obamacare has been called a giveaway to the health insurers, but I don’t think the industry is particularly grateful this week.
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White House Can’t Solve a Small Website Problem — How Will They Do With the Big Ones?
The time to say “if you like your health plan, you can keep it” has passed. Or has it?
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Did the President “Lie” About Obamacare, or Did He Believe What He Wanted to Believe?
It’s not just conservative pundits throwing around the L word.
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Jon Stewart Savages the Obamacare Rollout — And Why It Matters
Stewart’s 18-to-29 viewers have to be persuaded to purchase a product they don’t think they need at a price that will subsidize their elders.
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Gov. Christie Belatedly Accepts Reality on Same-Sex Marriage
One of the cool things about blogging is the occasional opportunity to say “I told you so,” and back it up with a link.
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3 Questions About the Tea Party Debacle
President Obama didn’t need to twist the knife after winning. Conservative pundits are lining up to do it for him.
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Is It Bad if I Don’t Vote in an Off-Year, Off-Month, Off-Week, Off-Day NJ Senate Election, the Outcome of Which Is Not in Doubt?
Uniquely among Newark mayors of the past half-century, Booker hasn’t even been indicted for anything.
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Yes Mr. President, Raising the Debt Ceiling DOES Raise Our Debt
Except maybe in a Clintonian “what the meaning of is, is” kind of way.
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Ted Cruz Casts Himself as Shaw’s Unreasonable Man
Part of me wants to admire Ted Cruz. But he doesn’t make himself easy to like.
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Syria Crisis Creates Strange Bedfellows in the U.S. and the World
A lot of people have been rethinking some of their most basic assumptions.
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Vladimir Putin as Peacemaker?
I’m more inclined to believe in the Tooth Fairy. Obama may have set one more trap for himself.
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About That Newfound Respect for John Kerry: Never Mind
In a spasmodic eruption of staggering incompetence, Kerry stumbled his way onto a path that will likely lead to months of further indecision.
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Syria Debate Prompts a Newfound Respect for John Kerry. Yes, John Kerry.
When Nobel Peace Prize laureate Obama launched his third war, in Libya, I was astonished and skeptical. Syria is different.