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COLUMN: Watergate's lesson forgotten
Washington Post Writers Group"He has, acting personally and through his subordinates and agents, endeavored to . . . cause, in violation of the constitutional rights of citizens, income tax audits or other income tax investigations to be initiated or conducted in a discriminatory...Tags: Taxation, Internal Revenue Service, Richard Nixon, Government, U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary
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Column: Signs of grown-ups in charge
Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas, chairman of the Financial Services Committee, has told Richard Cordray not to bother. This is part of the recent evidence that government is getting some adult supervision. President Barack Obama used a recess...Tags: Automotive Equipment, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Elections, U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Harry Reid
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Column: 'Central Park Five' -- graphically told
WASHINGTON — From Tom Paine’s "Common Sense" to Harriet Beecher Stowe’s "Uncle Tom’s Cabin" to Martin Luther King’s "Letter from Birmingham Jail," American history is replete with examples of printed words accelerating social...Tags: The Central Park Five (movie), Prosecution, Crime, Law and Justice, AIDS, The Washington Post
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COLUMN: Thatcher's vigorous virtues effective
Washington Post Writers GroupWASHINGTON -- She had the eyes of Caligula and the lips of Marilyn Monroe. So said Francois Mitterrand, the last serious socialist to lead a major European nation, speaking of Margaret Thatcher, who helped bury socialism as a doctrine of governance....Tags: Tony Blair, Unions, Charles de Gaulle, Government, The Washington Post
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COLUMN: Solitary confinement comes with a price
Washington Post Writers GroupWASHINGTON -- "Zero Dark Thirty," a nominee for Sunday’s Oscar as Best Picture, reignited debate about whether the waterboarding of terrorism suspects was torture. This practice, which ended in 2003, was used on only three suspects. Meanwhile,...Tags: U.S. Supreme Court, Charles Dickens, Punishment, Suicide, Zero Dark Thirty (movie)
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COLUMN: Grandstanding comes with price
Washington Post Writers GroupWASHINGTON — Politics becomes amusing when liberalism becomes theatrical with high-minded gestures. Chicago’s government, which is not normally known for elevated thinking, is feeling so morally upright and financially flush that it proposes...Tags: Physical Fitness and Exercise, Rahm Emanuel, Interior Policy, Fuel-efficient Vehicles, The Washington Post
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Column: Some questions for Hagel
Senate hearings on the nomination of Chuck Hagel to be defense secretary will be a distinctive Washington entertainment, a donnybrook without drama. He should be confirmed: Presidents are due substantial deference in selecting Cabinet members because they...Tags: Iran, Harry Reid, Israel, Terrorism, Leon Panetta
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COLUMN: Our decadent democracy
Washington Post Writers GroupWASHINGTON -- Connoisseurs of democratic decadence can savor a variety of contemporary dystopias. Because familiarity breeds banality, Greece has become a boring horror. Japan, however, in its second generation of stagnation is fascinating. Once, Japan...Tags: Japan, Democratic Party, Government, The Washington Post, National Government
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Disdain all around
WASHINGTON — While accusing the Supreme Court’s conservative justices of "disdain for democracy," Pamela S. Karlan proves herself talented at dispensing disdain. The Stanford law professor is, however, less talented at her chosen task of...Tags: Voting, Crime, Law and Justice, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Planned Parenthood, Elections
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A cliff of their own choosing
With a chip on his shoulder larger than his margin of victory, President Barack Obama is approaching his second term by replicating the mistake of his first. Then his overreaching involved health care — expanding the entitlement state at the expense...Tags: Paul Ryan, Democratic Party, Health Care Reform (2009), The Washington Post, Personal Income
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Too big to maintain?
If in four weeks a president-elect Mitt Romney is seeking a Treasury secretary, he should look here, to Richard Fisher, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. Candidate Romney can enhance his chance of having this choice to make by embracing a...Tags: Obesity, Financial Markets, Government, National Government, The Washington Post
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COLUMN: American minds are closing
Washington Post Writers GroupIn 2007, Keith John Sampson, a middle-aged student working his way through Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis as a janitor, was declared guilty of racial harassment. Without granting Sampson a hearing, the university administration --...Tags: University of Wisconsin-Madison, Students, Censorship, Elections, The Washington Post
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