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How Will GE Not Paying Taxes Help the Economy?
Tweet Share on Facebook March 30, 2011 Comment (16)There’s a fatal flaw in conservatives’ mission to spur the economy by giving tax breaks to business and to the wealthy: what does one do about General Electric?
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Libya is More Like Kosovo Than Iraq or Vietnam
Tweet Share on Facebook March 29, 2011 Comment (14)No one wants "another Vietnam," the buzzphrase for a protracted conflict with no clear mission or definition of success. And no one (anymore) wants another Iraq, which has turned out to be far longer, and far more expensive, in terms of both human lives and money, than one assumes the Bush administration had anticipated. Nor does anyone want another Bosnia, where the international community dithered for a year while former Yugoslav strongman Slobodan Milosevic slaughtered his own countrymen.
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From Geraldine Ferraro to Michele Bachmann--How Far Women Have Come
Tweet Share on Facebook March 28, 2011 Comment (4)It was truly an exciting moment in history, and one that I assumed, in my collegiate naivete, was the beginning--finally--of what would surely be true equality for women in the workforce and in politics. Yet the death last week of Geraldine Ferraro, the Democratic vice-presidential nominee in 1984, reminds us that we are far from achieving basic parity between the sexes, even more than a quarter century later.
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Attacks on Obama Over Libya Are About 2012 Politics
Tweet Share on Facebook March 25, 2011 Comment (11)President Obama dithered too long before deciding what to do in Libya. Or maybe he rushed in too quickly, failing to consult properly with Congress before joining an international military mission to protect Libyan citizens from slaughter by barely-hanging-on Libyan leader Muammar Qadhafi. Worse, he violated the Constitution by making a unilateral decision to commit American military forces to the mission without getting prior approval from Congress.
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Remembering Elizabeth Taylor: Actress, AIDS Activist
Tweet Share on Facebook March 23, 2011 Comment (3)I’m not one to react when some actor or musician dies. I didn’t light a vigil candle for Kurt Cobain, and Michael Jackson’s death, while certainly unfortunate and untimely in terms of his age, seemed to me like a tragedy waiting to happen. So I’ve been asking myself why I felt a stab of sadness at the passing of Elizabeth Taylor.
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Japan Disaster Reignites U.S. Nuclear Energy Debate
Tweet Share on Facebook March 22, 2011 Comment (6)The tragedy in Japan has given new life to the anti-nuclear movement, as many Americans who had not thought about a potential nuclear disaster in decades have started to worry about the effects of radiation from a nuclear accident (not to mention the question of where to store the spent fuel rods). The question is, will the episode cause us to fundamentally change our energy-use habits?
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Preschool Lawsuit Shows New Face of Hypercompetitive Parents
Tweet Share on Facebook March 21, 2011 Comment (6)I love children. I am, however, starting to really hate parents.
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Palin, O'Keefe, and Assange Should Learn from Anthony Shadid
Tweet Share on Facebook March 18, 2011 Comment (15)There’s someone I want Sarah Palin and James O’Keefe and Julian Assange to meet: Anthony Shadid.
Shadid, a friend and former Boston Globe colleague, has thankfully been found in Libya, after he and three of his colleagues at the New York Times went missing for several days covering the dangerous conflict there. The four, who the Times reports were captured by forces loyal to Libyan leader (for now) Muammar Qadhafi, are reportedly to be released. One can’t imagine what the foursome went through for those days. They, like many other journalists risking their lives or the health reporting in the Middle East and Japan, willingly put themselves in grave danger in support of democracy—a major tenet of which is a free and independent press.
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Tea Party Extremism Run Amok
Tweet Share on Facebook March 16, 2011 Comment (25)The success of the Tea Party movement and legitimate concern over the size of the deficit raise a serious question: What does it mean to promote small government?
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Montreal Police Are Nuts to Investigate an NHL Hockey Check
Tweet Share on Facebook March 15, 2011 Comment (2)Overreach has often gotten politicians and political parties in trouble. They get elected, imagine they have a mandate to do anything they want, and then just go too far.
It's a lesson that should be heeded by all those connected to professional hockey, be they the players, the fans, the sponsors, or the communities that support the teams.
