Opinion: In today’s pages
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The Manhattan Institute’s Tamar Jacoby says the Senate immigration deal does exactly what compromises are supposed to do, making it so that everyone ‘sacrifices a little so that we all can win big’:
The group had spent two hours a day, three or four days a week for many weeks, stuck in a small, stuffy room talking about the details of immigration policy. Voices had been raised, ultimatums leveled. On at least one occasion, lawmakers stormed out. And in order to get to a deal, they all had to compromise — to listen, really listen, then stretch and give up things they’d long believed in. But this painful process was precisely what the senators found so gratifying.
Sarah Miller explains how reading ‘About a Boy’ with her after-school students got her fired, and Steve Ettlinger describes his quest to find what exactly goes into a Twinkie. Columnist Jonah Goldberg compares presidential candidate John Edwards to a ‘toothy door-to-door salesman.’
The editorial board warns legislators to think twice about mandating vaccines like Gardasil when pharmaceutical companies are lobbying hard for them. The board describes how eminent domain reform has moved from the courts to the ballot, and applauds George Lucas for finally encouraging Star Wars mash-ups.
On the letters page, Tom Lubisich of Malibu explains high gasoline prices: ‘Refinery shutdowns and increased consumption? No. Increased profits? Yes!’