Gene Lyon
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The SAT isn't perfect, but it serves its purposeMar 14, 2014 5:05 am - Helicopter parents, start your engines. They're revising the SAT (Scholastic Aptitude Test) again, and you know what that means. More weeping, wailing and gnashing of te...
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Defeating Dems, not the ACA, is the point of misleading adsMar 02, 2014 4:05 am - Politically speaking, here's the thing about those melodramatic TV ads attacking the Affordable Care Act: In terms of actual policy, they're as futile as the 40-odd vote...
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Big Brother is not retreating to 18th centuryFeb 06, 2014 4:00 am - Let’s cut to the chase: If Big Brother wants you, he’s got you, telephone metadata notwithstanding. This disconcerting fact of modern life has been true more or less sin...
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America still has much to learn from Elizabeth SmartJan 21, 2014 4:00 am - If I had to describe Elizabeth Smart with a single adjective, that word would be “sane.” If allowed a second, I’d add “courageous.” Most people recognize Smart as the 14...
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Snowden demonstrates double-think on importance of leaksJan 07, 2014 4:00 am - Moscow has always been hard on idealists. So it’s no surprise to find the world-renowned civil libertarian Edward Snowden feeling shaky midway through his first Russian ...
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Picking fights over religionDec 17, 2013 4:00 am - “We have just enough religion to make us hate,” wrote Jonathan Swift, “but not enough to make us love one another.” A lifelong religious controversialist, the 18th-centu...
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Obama resilient in face of flagging poll numbersDec 08, 2013 4:00 am - For a guy whose presidency was supposed to be on life support, Barack Obama has certainly had a productive couple of weeks. With his poll numbers sinking toward George W...
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Fix the website and the ACA succeedsNov 26, 2013 4:00 am - Bad news for CLNN, the Chicken Little News Network — that is, just about all of them lately: In states which have set up their own Affordable Care Act marketplaces, enro...
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Baseball isn’t dying — it’s thrivingOct 15, 2013 5:00 am - For readers who skip the sports page, an update: There are no New York teams in the MLB playoffs this season. The Mets were dreadful right out of spring training, while ...
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A win for diplomacySep 20, 2013 5:00 am - “To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.” — Winston Churchill, June 26, 1954 Before you make the mistake of taking President Obama’s most strident critics regarding...