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Operation Rescue: More Kids Calling Shelters Home

Arnold Hamilton - June 30, 2009 1

By MELISSA MORGAN Pastel colors of purple, green, pink and blue blanketed an Oklahoma City field, as 340 little fingers clenched various baskets, shopping bags...

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For Straying Pols, It’s The Hurt That Matters

Arnold Hamilton - June 30, 2009 0

BY FROMA HARROP An open-minded individual, I am willing to support an adulterer for elective office. But my ability to look past marital infidelity depends on how much humiliation was heaped on the wife. The details matter. And measuring their importance is hard to do. The unfaithful rarely conduct their affairs in a clean, compartmentalized […]

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Squeezing Congress

Arnold Hamilton - June 27, 2009 0

BY FRANK P. BELCASTRO Why has health-care reform stalled in Congress? Mainly because Congress can't decide how to pay for it. Why has the public option...

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Don’t Cry For Me

Arnold Hamilton - June 26, 2009 0

BY SUSAN ESTRICH Spare me the tears, OK? If you want me to respect the privacy of your stupidity, don’t expect my sympathy. And whatever you do, I don’t want to hear about your agony. South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford’s admission that he spent the last five days crying in Argentina provided us with one of those […]

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Helping Borrowers Save Themselves

Arnold Hamilton - June 25, 2009 0

BY FROMA HARROP An 11th Commandment could read: Thou shalt not cheat the meek. Morality is reason alone for a Consumer Financial Protection Agency to shield the little guys from the lending barracudas – as well as from their own bad decisions [some of them, anyway]. There’s also the matter of how these toxic loans […]