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<title><![CDATA[Richard Cohen: Obama's record doesn't match his rhetoric]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ In my set, I am known as the guy who always had some reservations about Barack Obama. Sure, I supported him in the primaries against Hillary Clinton and I voted for him, with both glee and enthusiasm, especially after John McCain uttered the most shocking words in American politics -- "Sarah Palin." But I had such qualms about Obama that I even disparaged his famous speech on race, which almost everyone else thought was just about the greatest ever given on the subject. I just reread it -- and I was a bit chastened (I was too severe), but mostly I was saddened. Where is the man who once gave that speech? ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Richard Cohen on studying Sarah Palin]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ I saw the other day that George W. Bush is raising money for his proposed policy institute at Southern Methodist University. I did some research and found out that there are something like 3,000 policy institutes, most of them hosting convocations about nothing much and issuing papers no one reads. I suggest therefore that Bush use his money to do something truly different and constructive -- establish the Institute for the Study of Sarah Palin. My check is in the mail. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Richard Cohen on how not to lose the Afghan war]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ Between World War I and World War II, Britain fought all across the Islamic world, battling insurgencies in Iraq and Afghanistan, to name just two, and usually losing. This caused a fair amount of worry, introspection, angst and the usual commissions to determine why history was being so unkind. What the British discovered was what Pogo could have told them: They had met the enemy and it was them. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Avoid another Madoff, put a higher value on government work]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ In his own telling, Bernard Madoff was a version of the serial killer who leaves notes saying, "Stop me before I kill again." In Madoff's case, he was waiting for the Securities and Exchange Commission to ask him how he took in billions of dollars, never invested any of it and was reporting steady investment earnings. The answer, it seems, is that he had accomplices -- the Keystone Kops of the SEC who were always letting Madoff down: "I wish they caught me six years ago, eight years ago." So do others.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=482412022795" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=482412022795" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Give the general only what he needs]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ Years ago, I bought an old Time magazine -- the issue with the 1965 Man of the Year on the cover. I stuffed it into an old picture frame and kept it around to remind me of the fallibility of men, and, even, of Time magazine. It was of Gen. William C. Westmoreland. He was the Vietnam era's Gen. Stanley McChrystal. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Obama, Still an Undeveloped Character]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ If, as the saying goes, the perfect is the enemy of the good, then Barack Obama is his own worst enemy. That becomes clear in the upcoming HBO documentary "By the People: The Election of Barack Obama," which is the product of many months of behind-the-scenes access to Obama during the presidential campaign. It reveals -- you will be surprised to learn -- that Barack Obama is pretty close to the most perfect person you will never get to know. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Obama's Peace Prize Should Belong to the American Electorate]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ My love of lo these many years came into the room and asked what I was working on. I detailed some topics, enthralled as usual by my brilliance, but she scoffed at them all. She said that if she were writing a column, she would say something about how the Nobel Peace Prize committee got matters a bit wrong. Instead of citing Barack Obama for things intended, it should have cited the American people for things done. After all, we elected him. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Obama Needs More Than Personality to Win in Afghanistan]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ Barack Obama's trip to Copenhagen to pitch Chicago for the Olympics would have been a dumb move whatever the outcome. But as it turned out (an airy dismissal would not be an unfair description), it poses some questions about his presidency that are way more important than the proper venue for synchronized swimming. The first, and to my mind most important, is whether Obama knows who he is.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=482412026887" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=482412026887" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Time for Obama to Act Like a President]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ Sooner or later it is going to occur to Barack Obama that he is the president of the United States. As of yet, though, he does not act that way, appearing promiscuously on television and granting interviews like the presidential candidate he no longer is. The election has been held, but the campaign goes on and on. The candidate has yet to become commander in chief. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Defenestration of Gov. Paterson]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ The Defenestration of Prague occurred in 1618 when two royal officials were summarily thrown out of some rather high windows and landed, as luck would have it and history recorded it, on a pile of manure. The Defenestration of New York happened just the other day when Barack Obama tossed New York Gov. David Paterson out of a window, landing him not on a pile of manure but on the front page of the New York Times. In its political consequences, this is a distinction without difference. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Charlie Rangel Suffers From Congressional Sclerosis]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ Once upon a time, before I began an interview with Rep. Charles Rangel, I was warned by an aide not to bring up the 1970 race in which the upstart Rangel defeated the virtually legendary Adam Clayton Powell to gain his House seat. In the intervening years, Powell had gone from has-been to icon, with both a state office building and a boulevard named for him in Harlem, and it did Rangel no good in his district to be remembered as the man who brought down Powell -- a little bit of history that desperately needed airbrushing. This, we are now learning, is Rangel's true vocation. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Breaking Our Vow to Sept. 11 Victims?]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ This week it will be eight years since I fled my office and rushed down to Lower Manhattan. Two planes had hit the World Trade Center -- I had seen that on television -- and I jumped on the subway, which, remarkably, was running and then, when I could go no further, went the rest of the way on the run. Suddenly, I heard a crack -- a huge sound that contained the roar of thunder and the snap of lightning -- and the person next to me said, "They're scrambling jets," but the sky was empty and I knew that one of the towers had collapsed. I said to myself, "We'll get you, you bastards," but I was wrong. We haven't.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=482412030154" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=482412030154" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Torture's Ugly Dialogue]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ Call him Ishmael. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Burdens of Legacy]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ In late November 1979, I flew to Iowa with Edward Moore Kennedy. He was in first class and I was in coach, but at some point an aide came back and summoned me forward. Kennedy was seated on the aisle; I took the window seat, opened my notebook and asked a string of boilerplate questions: Why are you running for president and why couldn't you give television newsman Roger Mudd the reason when he interviewed you, and what about inflation? Then, for some reason, I asked him whether he was having fun, and he gave an answer I will never forget. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Obama, Lost at the Chalkboard]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ Let's go back to that "teachable moment." It was proclaimed by Barack Obama after he said that police in Cambridge, Mass., had acted "stupidly" in arresting Henry Louis Gates Jr. for essentially being black in his own house. It has been a month now, and the one sure thing we have learned in this extended teachable moment is about Obama himself. He can't teach. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Echoes of McCarthyism From Sarah Palin]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ Try this on for size: Palinism. What is it? It is an updated version of McCarthyism, which takes its name from the late Sen. Joseph McCarthy, the Wisconsin liar, demagogue and drunk, and means, according to Wikipedia, "reckless, unsubstantiated accusations, as well as demagogic attacks on the character or patriotism of political adversaries." As far as we know, Sarah Palin is not a drunk.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=482412033812" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=482412033812" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Michael Vick's Sordid Behavior -- and the NFL's]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ With team after team turning him down, the question regarding Michael Vick, thrower of footballs and killer of dogs, is not whether he will return to the NFL or even whether he should return, but whether he would be back already if he were just a wee bit younger and could still thread a needle with the football. The answer, boys and girls, is yes. An excuse would have been found. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Laws Won't Rein In Hate]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ James von Brunn, who is alleged to have opened fire and killed a guard at the Holocaust Memorial Museum, is apparently a consummate bigot. His former wife said that his hatred of blacks and Jews "ate him alive like a cancer," so it might seem appropriate that in addition to having been indicted last week for murder and gun-law violations, he was also charged with hate crimes. At age 89, he proves that you are never too old to hate. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[My Exclusive: Not Talking to Obama on Health Care]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ When the Pulitzer committee called to say that I had won the prize for being the only syndicated columnist, or for that matter touch-typist, who had not had an exclusive interview with Barack Obama, I was shocked. I had to check to see if indeed I had not exclusively interviewed the president and, if I had, what he had said and, if I hadn't -- which turned out to be the case -- how it had happened. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Sonia Sotomayor: A Safe, Soporific Bet for the High Court]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:44:56 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ A political ad that lucky New Yorkers get to see on television begins with "A million lawyers in America" and goes on to wonder about certain no-bid contracts in nearby New Jersey that will not concern us today. But every time the ad runs, I cannot help thinking about Sonia Sotomayor: A million lawyers in America, and Barack Obama chooses her for the Supreme Court.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=482412039377" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=482412039377" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ When I was in the Army and known to my friends as "Combat Cohen," I could not get over the fact that, during an era of almost universal military service, the American public supported high Pentagon spending despite firsthand knowledge of astounding waste and theft. I cite, for instance, the well-known and frequently witnessed pillaging of food by mess sergeants. From tasting their stuff, I can say that theft is what they did best. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Sarah Palin: An Alaskan Bullet, Dodged]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ In his novel "The Plot Against America," Philip Roth imagined that Charles Lindbergh, an isolationist and an anti-Semite (but a hell of a flier), ran for president in 1940 and beat Franklin Roosevelt. In his novel "Fatherland," Robert Harris imagined a Britain that had succumbed to the Nazis. These works are categorized as "alternate history." Here is my contribution to the genre: Sarah Palin becomes president of the United States. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Ruth Madoff and the Husband She Never Knew]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ Among the alumni of Far Rockaway High School in Queens are three Nobel Prize winners -- two in physics (Richard Feynman, Burton Richter) and one in medicine (Baruch Blumberg) -- plus a pioneer in women's basketball (Nancy Lieberman), a famous psychologist (Joyce Brothers), a financier (Carl Icahn) and, appallingly and with much regret, Bernard Madoff, Class of 1956. Apparently, even back then I didn't like him. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Open the Military Closet]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ Back during the initial fuss about "don't ask, don't tell," I went over to the Pentagon to see the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. We mostly discussed the situation in the Balkans and the pressure on President Bill Clinton to militarily intervene. Then I asked about gays in the military and the chairman, who was opposed, asked me what I thought the reaction would be if two male soldiers took to the dance floor at some military base. No different, I answered, than if a black man danced with a white woman at the same base about 50 years earlier. Colin Powell seemed taken aback and I thought, naively, that "don't ask don't tell" was doomed.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=482412047266" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=482412047266" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Obama, Staying Cool on Iran]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ The foreign policy sins of the United States fall into two categories: commission and omission. The commission ones include the wars in Vietnam and Iraq, and a one-time Latin American policy tailored to the needs of United Fruit Co. The sins of omission are less well-known. They include the failure to redeem the hollow promises to various subjugated peoples -- the Hungarians of 1956, the Shiites of 1991 -- that America would come to their aid. In Iran, the Obama administration is intent on not adding to this list. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[When Anti-Semitism Is Mainstream]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ To far more people than we would like to admit, the mystery of James W. von Brunn, the alleged shooter at the Holocaust Memorial Museum, is not that he held such weird and depraved views about Jews and the Holocaust, but that those views are considered weird and depraved. In vast parts of the Islamic world, too many people not only deny the Holocaust but embrace the thinking that made it possible. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Sonia Sotomayor: Up From the Projects]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ With the nose of a trained columnist, I detect the whiff of elitism-cum-racism emanating from the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court. The whiff does not come -- Rush Limbaugh and Newt Gingrich notwithstanding -- from Sotomayor's own statements; nor does it come from her controversial decision upholding race-based affirmative action. It comes, instead, from the general expression of wow about her background. Imagine, someone from the projects is a success! ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[It's Impossible to Avoid Elizabeth Edwards and the Octuplet Mom]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ "The world is too much with us," the poet William Wordsworth wrote -- and that, of course, was before Elizabeth Edwards published her book and went on television to promote it, ducking questions about a child her husband might have fathered with another woman but answering other questions about marital infidelity and suffering all the time from cancer. What to do? What to think? What judgments can we make?<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=482412050570" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=482412050570" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[In a Nuclear Neighborhood]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ In 1947, a British lawyer with no experience in the region arrived in India to draw lines on a map. Within several weeks, Cyril Radcliffe had severed the future Pakistan from India, helping to create the conditions that have since resulted in three wars and the arming of both nations with nuclear weapons. People ask what America would do if Pakistan lost control of its nukes. Wrong question. Ask instead what India might do. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA['Enhanced Interrogation's' Effectiveness: What If Cheney's Right?]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ Blogger Alert: I have written a column in defense of Dick Cheney. I know how upsetting this will be to some Cheney critics, and I count myself as one, who think -- in respectful paraphrase of what Mary McCarthy said about Lillian Hellman -- that everything he says is a lie, including the ands and the thes. Yet I have to wonder whether what he is saying now is the truth -- i.e., torture works. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[A Litmus Test That Counts]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ As the time approaches for President Obama to choose a successor to Justice David Souter, the term "litmus test" will be heard throughout the land. The White House will deny applying any such thing, but the nominee will undoubtedly be chosen according to where she stands on abortion, unions and other issues beloved by liberals. This is fine with me, but what I want to know is where she stands on Frank Ricci. He's a firefighter. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Mr. Clinton Goes to Washington]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:37:49 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ [Editor's note: This op-ed was originally published on May 6, 1993.]<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=482412054895" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=482412054895" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Why We Ban Torture]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ On April 16, President Obama released the now-infamous torture memos along with a covering statement that said the CIA's old interrogation methods not only failed to "make us safer" but undermined "our moral authority." A week later, a woman holding the hand of a child walked into a throng in Baghdad and blew herself up. Apparently she had not heard of our new moral authority. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Hamas's Bloody Hands]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ Some residents of Gaza were taken from their homes and shot in the legs or feet. Some were brutally beaten, and some were simply murdered, sometimes after hideous torture. If you are expecting -- based on everything that has happened -- that the awful Israelis did this, guess again. It was Hamas, the authentic and genuine government of Gaza. Well, no one's perfect. ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Bush's Texas-Size Challenge]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ Former president George W. Bush and some of his White House aides are gathering in Dallas this week to plan the future George W. Bush Policy Institute. There, I guess, they will ponder grand themes and marble foyers, but I propose they begin by simply renaming the place. I suggest naming it the "George W. Bush Institute of Management Failure" and dedicating it to studying how this presidency went so wrong -- a task as big as Texas itself. ]]></description>
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