Archive | Columns
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Column: U.S. intervention in Syria can’t wait
It has inexplicably taken until now, as the Syrian opposition’s death toll surges toward 10,000 and over a year has passed since Bashar al-Assad’s government resorted to unrestricted violence to put down a previously peaceful uprising, for tangible assistance to be provided to the Syrian ...
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Column: Muckracking for a buck
I applaud Janet Reitman’s recent Rolling Stone article on Dartmouth hazing for at least attempting to present a more nuanced picture of Dartmouth’s “whistleblower” compared to other national publications.
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Column: Barack Obama is incompetent
President Barack Obama’s comments at the nuclear security summit in South Korea on Monday have been widely publicized. ABC News recorded part of Obama's conversation with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.
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Column: How the Supreme Court might save the Affordable Care Act
The US Supreme Court this week has heard one of the most important appeals to reach it in more than a decade.
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Column: Obamacare – More than just health care
Twenty-seven states have officially filed lawsuits against it, and more than half of Americans favor its repeal. Now, it’s the Supreme Court’s turn to give its opinion on Obamacare and decide the fate of President Barack Obama’s most recognized “achievement.
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Column: North Koreans lose again
Yesterday, President Obama returned from a three-day trip to Seoul in which he met with leaders from South Korea, China, and Russia to discuss nuclear security and proliferation.
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Column: Trayvon Martin and the Minimal State
Everyone knows that libertarians don’t especially like it when the government, er, does stuff. But even the most doctrinaire libertarians generally accept that there are some functions that the state can justifiably perform. Apart from radical anarcho-capitalists like Murray N. Rothbard or David D.
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Column: Despite current Supreme Court case, Affordable Care Act supported by judicial precedent
One of the enduring truths about politics is that the party in the minority will always find a reason to become outraged at whatever is being done by the party in the majority.
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Column: Those crazy Republicans
Over the last three years, many on the left have argued that the Republican Party has gone crazy. At first, I didn’t think much of this argument.