Opinion
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Editorial: At last, a smart move from House RepublicansJan 23, 2013 10:00 pm - On Wednesday the GOP-led House voted 285-144, with all but 33 Republicans on board, to extend the debt ceiling another three months without spending concessions, postpon...
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Editorial: No more Mr. Nice Guy?Jan 23, 2013 10:00 pm - "Together, we resolved that a great nation must care for the vulnerable, and protect its people from life's worst hazards and misfortune ... But we have always understoo...
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Kathleen Parker: Proudly confessingJan 23, 2013 6:00 am - To the world-weary, Lance Armstrong's confession to Oprah was just one more in a series. The process of public contrition is by now yawningly familiar: Comfortably seate...
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Lost in Suburbia: And the Academy Award goes to …Jan 22, 2013 10:00 pm - "Do you want to see a movie tonight?" asked my husband. It was a perfectly reasonable question. It was a Saturday afternoon. We had no plans. But having been married to ...
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Dana Milbank: After the thrill is goneJan 22, 2013 6:00 am - For President Obama's second inaugural, we just went through the motions. In advance of Monday's festivities, the barriers were erected around Lafayette Square, grandsta...
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Jared Olar: Breaking down legal abortion falsehoodsJan 21, 2013 10:00 pm - Human injustice cannot abide the truth, cannot endure when the truth is widely known and willingly embraced. To establish itself in a society, injustice needs falsehood,...
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Amy Gehrt: Obama focuses on equality at inaugurationJan 21, 2013 10:00 pm - Standing before a crowd of hundreds of thousands of Americans, Barack Obama took the oath of office to start his second term as president of the United States on Monday....
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Charles Krauthammer: A new strategy for the GOPJan 21, 2013 6:00 am - It has become conventional wisdom that Republicans are suffering an internal split that President Obama is successfully exploiting to neuter the Republican House. It is ...
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Michael Gerson: Politics as usualJan 20, 2013 6:00 am - Here is my nomination for the lowest moment of the "fiscal cliff" debate. Right before Christmas, President Obama met with Speaker John Boehner in the Oval Office. "He t...
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E.J. Dionne: We're not in decline or retreatJan 19, 2013 6:00 am - We are about to have a major foreign policy debate in the guise of a confirmation battle over Chuck Hagel's nomination as secretary of defense and the related argument o...