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    Will: The NLRB’s school-door stand

    Early in an opinion issued recently by a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, Judge A. Raymond Randolph says: “Although the parties have not raised it, one issue needs to be resolved before we turn to the merits of the case.”...

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    McManus: The second-term scandal plague

    What is it about presidents' second terms that makes them seem so scandal-ridden? Simple: The iron law of longevity. All governments make mistakes, and all governments try to hide those mistakes. But the longer an administration is in office, the more errors it makes, and the harder they are to ...

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    Dowd: Taxing times for Obama

    I went to New York recently to cover the TV presentations for the new season, shows like “Scandal,” “Shark Tank” and a faltering “American Idol.”

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    Sanchez: Responsibility for Asian sweatshop safety lies with us, too

    Another apparel factory has collapsed in a poor Asian country, killing three workers, and I fear I'm partly to blame.

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    Thomas: Gosnell’s ‘clinic of horrors’

    It was the pictures and riveting testimony that convinced a Philadelphia jury that abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell was guilty of murdering three infants born alive following botched late-term abortions and also guilty of the involuntary manslaughter of Karnamaya Mongar, who overdosed on Demerol during...

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    Collins: Is your state legislature more corrupt than mine?

    Let's talk about what makes a delinquent state legislature. I know it's been on your mind.

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    Bruni: America the clueless

    The problems with our country's political discourse are many and grave, but an insufficient attention to Obamacare isn't among them. We have talked Obamacare to death, or at least into home hospice care. The “Obamacare” shorthand itself reflects our need to come up with less of a mouthful...

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    Ghitis: Hypocrisy over Israel’s Syria bombing

    It didn't take long after news that Israel had bombed military facilities inside Syria for the Arab League to demand that the U.N. Security Council “act immediately to end Israeli attacks on Syria” over what the League called a “dangerous violation of an Arab state's sovereignty...

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    Charles Krauthammer: Pink line over Damascus

    You know you're in trouble when you can't even get your walk-back story straight. Stung by the worldwide derision that met President Obama's fudging and fumbling of his chemical-weapons red line in Syria, the White House leaked to The New York Times that Obama's initial statement had been unprepared...

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    Dowd: America’s military injustice

    Along with a boosted Buick LeSabre, another incident listed on a crime report Sunday in Arlington County, Va., was a creepy attack by a man on a woman.

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