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Monday, December 1, 2008

No time for Mass. to go soft on education

By Cornelius Chapman
The story is told of a wealthy businessman wooed by the Boston Symphony to make a donation. He is escorted to a balcony box...
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Uncle Sam’s going bipolar on bailouts

By Deroy Murdock
This holiday season, Americans can be grateful for a government huge enough to work against itself. As cornucopian benefits flow from Washington, Uncle Sam...

In Barack Obama, let’s trust

By Ann McFeatters
WASHINGTON - So, folks, how is he doing? With every day bringing more bad financial news, with job loss now an equal...
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Sunday, November 30, 2008

Dems need to put the market back in economy

By Charles Krauthammer
WASHINGTON - In the old days - from the Venetian Republic to, oh, the Bear Stearns rescue - if you wanted to get rich, you...
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Thankful for dad and his thrifty habits

By Bill O’Reilly
One of the things I am deeply grateful for this holiday season is that my father was a frugal guy and made a big deal out of it. A child of the Depression,...

Old mistakes in new New Deal

By George F. Will
WASHINGTON - Early in what became the Great Depression, John Maynard Keynes was asked if anything similar had ever happened. “Yes,” he replied,...

Defense pick opens Gates to measured change

By Dale McFeatters
It may upset some of the Democratic Party’s more amped-up liberals who want us out of Iraq now, but Barack Obama did the wise thing in asking the Bush...
Saturday, November 29, 2008

Big government . . . it’s back!

Obama: Faces no constraints from Democrats.
By Dick Morris and Eileen McGann
The subprime mortgage crisis is only the Sarajevo that caused the financial collapse....
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Budget bashing sounds familiar

By Dale McFeatters
President-elect Barack Obama has pledged to systematically scour the federal budget to eliminate wasteful spending and to help offset the cost of a huge new...

An opportunity to wound Taliban

By Clifford D. May
“Afghanistan is the most foreign country in the world,” says William Wood, the American ambassador in Kabul. I ask if I may quote him on that. He...

Let the gift be priceless

By Michael J. Silverstein / As you were saying . . .
Almost everyone will open fewer gifts. But the gifts will have more meaning. In fact, maybe this year’s “less-commercial-and-more-love”...
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Friday, November 28, 2008

No saving prof from his timidity

By George F. Will
WASHINGTON - In 1892, a Massachusetts court ruled that a policeman’s rights had not been violated by a law forbidding certain political activities by...
Thursday, November 27, 2008

Above all, thanks to Obama for making history

By Wayne Woodlief
It’s Thanksgiving, time again for me to thank all the politicians, staffers, tipsters and readers who helped make this...
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Miscreants, say grace

By Michael Graham
Today - and every Thanksgiving Day - I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth. Why? Because I’m...
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’Tis not the petty season

By Brenda McDonald / As you were saying . . .
When a clerk says “Happy Holidays,” remember that the phrase means to include Christmas without excluding anyone...
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