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- A Health-Care Greeting: Welcome to Wal-Mart - July 2, 2009
- Americans agree on health care. Ask them, "Who should pay for it," and they all answer, "Not me." But follow up with, "Who, then?" and you have a fight on your...
- For Straying Pols, It's the Hurt That Matters - June 30, 2009
- An open-minded individual, I am willing to support an adulterer for elective office. But my ability to look past marital infidelity depends on how much humiliation was...
- Helping Borrowers Save Themselves - June 25, 2009
- An 11th Commandment could read: Thou shalt not cheat the meek. Morality is reason alone for a Consumer Financial Protection Agency to shield the little guys from the...
- Act Fast on Health Care, Obama - June 23, 2009
- President Obama has a green light and open eight-lane highway for health-care reform. But somehow the guy can't put his foot on the gas. He hedges in neutral while some...
- Timid Obama Succumbs to Old Politics - June 18, 2009
- This has been a tough week for the hopeful ones who believed President Obama's vow to break with the old politics. Every day, it seems, the president caved in to another...
- Deficit Worry is the Greenest Shoot - June 16, 2009
- Never mind firmer retail sales, rising stock prices and moderating job losses. The greenest shoot is Americans' changing economic fixation. There's less panic over...
- Sotomayor, the New Yorker - June 11, 2009
- While walking recently on a crowded Manhattan sidewalk, I suddenly saw a wall of water crash down from somewhere over our heads. The source was a truck from which a fat...
- A Texas-Size Medical Lesson - June 9, 2009
- McAllen, Texas, spends more per person on health care than any other metropolitan area in America, except for Miami. Why would this poor border town spend $15,000 a year...
- America Must Roll the Dice on GM - June 7, 2009
- The alternative to a government rescue of General Motors is the collapse of the industrial Midwest. Nonetheless, there's been a surprisingly large amount of dumping on...
- Toad Hall Madness Fades, but Sadness Lingers - June 2, 2009
- The most notable downsizing of the American home has been in its price. The luxury end usually escapes the worst of housing downturns, but not this time. For those...
- Sotomayor and Condescending Identity Politics - May 28, 2009
- Identity politics are not good for the country or for the groups they purport to advance. This is not to undercut Sonia Sotomayor, who, as the news reports all start...
- Obama's Halfway Change on Stem Cell Research - May 26, 2009
- President Obama often tries to defuse divisive debates by talking of "false choices." A false choice implies that by restating the argument, both sides can get what they...
- Cars: What We Need vs. What We Want - May 21, 2009
- The new fuel-efficiency and emission standards may lead to smaller cars with lighter engines. This is not what consumers prefer, auto analysts tell us. They may be right...
- New Standards for Credit-Card Decency - May 19, 2009
- By the time you read this, the Senate may have passed a bill to put a leash on the nastiest credit-card company tactics. Lenders warn that changing the rules would make...
- Illegal Immigration in Tough Times - May 14, 2009
- While the recession has rattled every rung of economic ladder, it has ravaged the bottom bars. Unemployment stands at just over 4 percent for college graduates but at...
- Oversharing, Exhibitionism, Loneliness - May 12, 2009
- It pains me to take Elizabeth Edwards to task for anything. She is suffering from terminal cancer and from assertions that her cheating husband fathered a child with a...
- The Push for Health Care Reform - May 7, 2009
- A camel, the old saying goes, is a horse made by committee. We don't want camel health reform. We don't want Washington lawmakers debating whether it should have one...
- Better Service in Bad Times? - May 5, 2009
- As tornadoes, thunder and lightning rampaged across the Heartland last week, the crowds piled up at Chicago's O'Hare Airport. Every bar stool had someone on it, and...
- Man and His Self-Interest - April 30, 2009
- In a Q&A last year with the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, former Pennsylvania Rep. Pat Toomey was asked what book he wanted Barack Obama to read. The Republican quickly...
- Throwing Out Utah Stereotypes - April 28, 2009
- SALT LAKE CITY -- American flags and lush spring grass lined the long drive of a Mormon meetinghouse here in the desert capital of Utah. Television trucks parking...
- Hounded and Stressed, but Not by Technology - April 23, 2009
- Consider Cary Grant in "North by Northwest." Sinister forces may be chasing him for reasons he can't comprehend, but this is 1959, and neither the BlackBerry nor the...
- Bottom Line for the Uninsured - April 22, 2009
- The hardest group to sell on national health reform is those who don't desperately need it. That would include Americans who already have coverage through a workplace,...
- A State-ly March Toward Gay Marriage - April 16, 2009
- This has been a month of forward leaps in the campaign for gay-marriage -- or so it is said. The Iowa Supreme Court struck down a ban on same-sex marriage, providing a...
- Economic Anxiety: Like Rats in a Cage - April 14, 2009
- One day last week, the Dow Jones Industrial Average shot up 246 points. On CNBC, Jim Cramer punched the Sousa March button. NPR's "Marketplace" boomed, "We're in...
- Let's stop seesawing and solve energy problem - Houston Chronicle - April 10, 2009
- Seems a lifetime ago that the price of crude approached $150 a barrel, but it was only last summer.
- Let's End Energy Policy Whipsaw - April 9, 2009
- But isn't this a curious way to run environmental and energy policy? It is, and the about-face in Santa Barbara only reflects the national tendency to lurch...
- A Nation of Unwed Drudgery - April 8, 2009
- Nearly 40 percent of babies now born in America are to unmarried women. The birthrate for unmarried women in their 20s is higher than for teens. Sociologists say that...
- Centrist Dems: Dogged If They Do, Dogged If They Don't - April 2, 2009
- What's a liberal to do? First, recognize that the Blue Dogs are the reason Democrats have such nice majorities. They are why the dreams are even on the menu....
- Socialism for Any Occasion - March 31, 2009
- None that anyone has noticed. Obama's economic team won't even nationalize the broken banks. But that doesn't matter. The S-word can signify anything...
- Springtime for New England Republicans? - March 26, 2009
- But green Republican shoots are emerging from the spring muck. The most conspicuous one involves the falling fortunes of embattled Connecticut Sen....
- Economy and Health Care Are Married - March 24, 2009
- "The economy is something he should focus on, probably more than the (tournament) brackets," Krzyzewski advised. And what about the 55 percent of...
- The Public Wants Justice - March 19, 2009
- What truly rankles is the argument that AIG, now 80-percent owned by the taxpayer, has no choice but to cough up the money: The sacrosanct contract requires...
- GOP's Sliding Scale for Self-Discipline - March 17, 2009
- Steele's explanation: Blacks especially are "often born into grievance-focused identities," a response to four centuries of racial persecution. School busing...
- Obama Takes a Dive on Earmarks - March 12, 2009
- Democratic leaders are right that "this is last year's business." And it's true that earmarks made up less than 2 percent of the $410 billion spending bill. ...
- Don't Surrender to Recession Stress - March 10, 2009
- For example, Shelley McGuire, a nutritionist at Washington State University in Pullman, recently predicted that a return to home cooking would helpfully add whole...
- Rich Shouldn't Get Overwrought - March 5, 2009
- The president wants to raise the top tax rate to 39.9 percent starting in 2011 (when the economy is presumably on the road to recovery). That was the highest...
- Canada Profits From Bizarre U.S. Bans - March 3, 2009
- The Obama administration has ended that Canadian advantage by reversing the Bush policy. Canadians now fear they might suffer their own brain-drain back to...
- GOP Keeps Avoiding Its Fiscal 'Principles' - February 26, 2009
- There was no joy in President Obama's discussion Tuesday night of the expensive economic-recovery plan. He told Congress that he asked for it, "not because I...
- Let Bankruptcy Courts Change Mortgages - February 24, 2009
- The idea is to make monthly mortgage payments easier to meet and thereby keep more people in their homes. This can be done by lowering the interest rate,...
- Latino-American Dream on Hold - February 19, 2009
- Almost one in 10 Latino homeowners reported missing a mortgage payment -- or being unable to make a full one -- in 2008, according to a Pew Hispanic Center...