Thursday, March 22, 2012

Opinion Express

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Springsteen captures the state of America
Springsteen captures the state of America

in his latest album, one of the elder statesmen of American music delivers what might fairly be called a State of the Union address.

Ryan's challenge, Part 2 Paul Ryan asks Americans to choose their future

Paul Ryan offers Americans a choice: Should the U.S. keep borrowing or end its addiction?
Your candidate won. Now make him go away. Derrick Smith won; now make him go away

Faced with a choice between a known Republican and an alleged bribe-taker, Chicago voters went with the defendant, 3 to 1.
Today's columnists

Will the true conservative please stand up The GOP campaign's race to the right

Apparently Republicans will no longer tolerate a liberal or even a moderate nominee.
The federalist solution Goldberg: The federalist solution

The bleating about broken government and partisanship continues. "Why can't those boobs in Washington agree on anything?" We're constantly told that the way to fix the country is to dethrone the left and right and empower the middle. Americans Elect, No Labels, the Gangs of Six and Fourteen, conservative Democrats and liberal Republicans: Handing things over to these middling mincers and half-a-loafers is supposed to be the answer to all of our problems. It's as if we should just put Nelson Rockefeller's mug on the dollar bill and be done with it.

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