8:30 AM May 21, 2013
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Pitts: Timely injustice

Excerpt: At great political peril, George Ryan did the right thing.

Not to canonize the man. After all, the then-governor of Illinois was later imprisoned on corruption charges.

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9:30 AM May 20, 2013
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Pitts: What was the IRS thinking?

Excerpt: Well, this is a fine mess.

After years of moaning about various “conspiracies” against them, conservative activists finally have a real (i.e., not manufactured by Fox or inflated by Limbaugh) piece of evidence to take before the court of public opinion.

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9:30 AM May 16, 2013
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Parker: Conservatives and Mainstream Media teaming up

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Breaking news: Conservative organizations suddenly have found common cause with one of their favorite objects of contempt — the benighted Mainstream Media.

Or as the Tea Party queen and former Alaska governor likes to put it, the “lamestream media.”

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9:30 AM May 15, 2013
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Hoefert: Armed Forces Day needs sponsor

 

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8:30 AM May 14, 2013
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George Will: Obama in 2014

Thirty-one months ago Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell affronted the media and other custodians of propriety by saying something common-sensical.

 

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10:30 AM May 12, 2013
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George Will: Immigration, again

Excerpt: Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” is a gooey confection of seasonal sentiment. It also is an economic manifesto that Dickens hoped would hit with “twenty thousand times the force” of a political tract.

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8:30 AM May 10, 2013
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Parker: Are you Hispanic enough?

Excerpt: Enough with this “enough” business.

Latest to the question of whether a person is sufficiently identifiable as belonging to a particular demographic is Ted Cruz — the conservative Texas senator who happens to be of Hispanic descent.

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8:30 AM Apr 30, 2013
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George Will: Shame of deference

Excerpt: Two of the three most infamous Supreme Court decisions were erased by events. The Civil War and postwar constitutional amendments effectively overturned Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857), which held that blacks could never have rights that whites must respect. Plessy v.

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10:30 AM Apr 29, 2013
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Parker: The Bush I knew

In a reprieve from the horror of the most recent terrorist attack, the nation’s attentions turned to the man who declared the war on terrorism, George W. Bush.

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8:30 AM Apr 25, 2013
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Parker: The terror of not knowing

Excerpt: As the manhunt for the Boston bombers reached its climactic conclusion, Americans of all hues and backgrounds heaved a sigh of relief. Thank goodness it wasn't ... fill in the blank:

A white Christian from the South;

A dark-skinned Muslim foreigner;

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