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Opinion: Stay calm and let the NSA carry on
Max Boot, Los Angeles Times
June 12, 2013
After 9/11, there was a widespread expectation of many more terrorist attacks on the United States. So far that hasn’t happened. We haven’t escaped entirely unscathed (see Boston Marathon, bombing of), but on the whole we have been a lot safer than most security experts, including me, expected. In light of the current controversy over the National Security Agency’s monitoring of telephone calls and emails, it is worthwhile to ask: Why is that?
Opinion: U.S. gets small human rights win
Andres Oppenheimer
June 11, 2013
Something very unusual happened at the 34-country Organization of American States annual foreign ministers’ meeting last week: The United States and Mexico won a diplomatic victory over authoritarian populist governments that wanted a free hand to suppress human rights monitors and critical media.
Opinion: Sugar subsidies costly to consumers
George Will
June 11, 2013
The steamboat conveying Andrew Jackson up the Ohio River toward his tumultuous 1829 inauguration had brooms lashed to its bow, symbolizing Old Hickory’s vow to clean up Washington. But sweeping out Washington’s Augean stables, like painting the Golden Gate Bridge, is steady work, so steady it never ends. Neither do the policies that cosset sugar producers.
Opinion: Holder doing mediocre job as AG
David Ignatius
June 10, 2013
People are looking for the wrong “scandal” about Attorney General Eric Holder. The problem with Holder is the plain fact that, in the judgment of a wide range of legal colleagues, he has been a mediocre attorney general.
Opinion: Simple caring now seems controversial
Leonard Pitts Jr.
June 9, 2013
I cannot write this the way I want. Doing so would invade the privacy of too many people. But I can’t be silent, either. Last week, you see, President Obama spoke before a conference of mental health advocates at the White House. It is necessary, he said, to remove the stigma of mental illness and make sure “people aren’t suffering in silence,” that they know they are not alone, but are supported by the rest of us as they face this challenge.
Opinion: Israeli leader has viable peace plan
Trudy Rubin
June 9, 2013
For skeptics who doubt a peace deal between the Israelis and Palestinians is still possible, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert argued passionately this week that now is the moment — and his plan is the answer.
Opinion: Rice skills may complement Obama’s
David Ignatius
June 7, 2013
Think of Susan Rice as the president’s assertive kid sister. Where he’s cool and deferential, she’s boisterous and sometimes abrasive. Where he avoids public confrontation, she often relishes it. They have different styles, but make no mistake: What Rice says out loud is often what Obama is thinking privately.
Opinion: Bill would expand judicial discretion
George Will
June 6, 2013
Libertarians believe government should have a compelling reason before it restricts an individual’s liberty. Today’s liberals believe almost any reason will do, because liberty is less important than equality, fraternity, fighting obesity and many other aspirations. Now, however, one of the most senior and liberal U.S. senators and one of the most junior and libertarian have a proposal that could slow and even repair some of the fraying of society.
Opinion: Bachmann is what the GOP shouldn’t be
Michael Smerconish, Philadelphia InquirerMitt Romney has missed several golden opportunities to turn this campaign’s religious fixation to his advantage. Given that polls show he faces prejudice among
June 6, 2013
Bob Dole took to Fox News recently to share his views on the state of the Republican Party. Dole said he doubted that Ronald Reagan would be welcome in the current GOP (echoing what Jeb Bush said last year about the Gipper and Bush’s father, George H.W. Bush). Dole said the party should hang a “closed for repairs” sign outside its door.
Opinion: GOP is overreaching on scandals
Leonard Pitts Jr.
June 5, 2013
You’d think they’d never seen a scandal before. Like the nerd hero of some R-rated sex comedy who suddenly finds himself alone with a willing girl for the first time, some on the Republican right are giddy, hyperventilating and acting a little goofy at the troubles now plaguing Team Obama. Not that one can’t understand their eagerness. It must feel like Wile E. Coyote finally nailing that bleeping Road Runner after years of Acme product failures. Similarly, after years of trying to manufacture scandals out of Palin mumblings, Limbaugh rantings and pixie dust (see ACORN, Shirley Sherrod, death panels and birthers), the right suddenly finds that it finally has some charges of real substance with which to yoke the White House.
Opinion: How do you spell ‘success’
Cal Thomas
June 5, 2013
The annual ritual known as the Scripps National Spelling Bee came and went last week with kids spelling words that, I suspect, many with graduate degrees couldn’t spell. The winner was Arvind Mahankali, a 13-year-old eighth-grader from Bayside Hills, N.Y. Mahankali is the first boy to win the title since 2008.

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