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Paul Greenberg (Feb 08, 2012)
Those who run the Komen foundation, and make a mighty good thing of it, too, sound confused in the worst way: morally confused.
Formally dedicated to finding a cure for... more
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Paul Greenberg (Feb 06, 2012)
A presidential campaign is the health of economic illiteracy. Every four years, ignorance comes into its quadrennial own. There are voters to mobilize, resentments to stoke,... more
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Paul Greenberg (Feb 03, 2012)
The results in Florida were even better for Mitt Romney than most of the wildly swinging polls said they would be. With 100 percent of the vote in the Republican primary in,... more
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Paul Greenberg (Feb 01, 2012)
It happens every between-the-wars period. It happened in the 1920s and '30s, then in the post-war 1940s. ... Now it's happening again in the 2010s. War-weariness sets in. A... more
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Paul Greenberg (Jan 30, 2012)
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the... more
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Paul Greenberg (Jan 26, 2012)
For those fortunate souls who didn't have to sit through the president's State of the Union speech Tuesday night out of a sense of duty, or maybe just masochism, here is a... more
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Paul Greenberg (Jan 25, 2012)
Sumday morning the word began to filter out. First it was a rumor, then the emails began arriving. Had the media jumped the gun again? But then the family released a... more
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Paul Greenberg (Jan 23, 2012)
We sit in classrooms listening to another boring lecture. Or we take the kids to school on the way to work. Or climb in the pick-up truck for another day at the construction... more
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Paul Greenberg (Jan 19, 2012)
Oh, dear. Still another Iranian nuclear scientist has met with a fatal accident. Accidents will happen, especially in the Middle East and to Iran's nuclear... more
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Paul Greenberg (Jan 18, 2012)
Let's hear it for The Usable Past. That phrase was much in vogue among historians not long ago, and may still be. Historians, too wanted to be part of the practical arts.... more
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Paul Greenberg (Jan 12, 2012)
There were no surprises in the New Hampshire presidential primary. The voting results followed expectations and the polls. Win, place and show -- Romney, Paul and Huntsman --... more
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Paul Greenberg (Jan 12, 2012)
It is that time again, mixing mourning and gratitude, to mark the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr. And now we can gather at his still new memorial in... more
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Paul Greenberg (Jan 11, 2012)
Who says Occupy Wall Street hasn't accomplished something specific?
You can put a number on it, or at least The Associated Press did. Talk about redistributing the... more
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Paul Greenberg (Jan 09, 2012)
After what seemed an eternity of debates, the New Hampshire primary has whirred into life. Like a great creaky old grandfather clock striking the hour -- a reminder not only... more
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Paul Greenberg (Jan 05, 2012)
It seems former U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter has undertaken a second career as a stand-up comic. He's now switching occupations the way he once switched political parties.
At... more
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Paul Greenberg (Jan 03, 2012)
Who is this Richard Kinder, and why is what he says both so funny and so true?
He's the 66-year-old CEO of Kinder Morgan, Inc., who at the moment is trying to create the... more