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WASHINGTON - With its support for gay marriage, the NAACP has done more than strike a blow for fairness and equality. The nation’s most venerable civil rights organization has made itself relevant again.
EUGENE ROBINSON
WASHINGTON – Republicans say they’re eager for the presidential campaign to turn away from “distractions” and focus instead on the economy. Someone should warn them that if they’re not careful, they might get their wish.
EUGENE ROBINSON
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama’s evolutionary leap on same-sex marriage is a historic advance in the nation’s long march toward equality and justice. It is also a bold political gambit that sacrifices some votes in exchange for potentially renewing his image as a leader of vision and hope.
EUGENE ROBINSON
WASHINGTON – Economic austerity is a dangerous, self-defeating intellectual fad. Perhaps I should say that’s what it was, given Sunday’s election results in Europe. Perhaps I should also say good riddance.
EUGENE ROBINSON
WASHINGTON – Show of hands: Does anybody really understand the U.S. policy in Afghanistan? Can anyone figure out how we’re supposed to stay the course and bring home the troops at the same time?
EUGENE ROBINSON
WASHINGTON – Republicans are waging the most concerted campaign to prevent or discourage citizens from exercising their legitimate voting rights since the Jim Crow days of poll taxes and literacy tests.
EUGENE ROBINSON
WASHINGTON – Now that the immigration “crisis” has solved itself, this is the perfect time for Congress and the president to agree on a package of sensible, real-world reforms.
EUGENE ROBINSON; THE WASHINGTON POST
It may not be the economy, stupid.
EUGENE ROBINSON; THE WASHINGTON POST
WASHINGTON – Not all overheated political rhetoric is alike. Delusional right-wing crazy talk – the kind of ranting we’ve heard recently from washed-up rock star Ted Nugent and tea party-backed Rep. Allen West – is a special kind of poison that cannot be safely ignored.
EUGENE ROBINSON; THE WASHINGTON POST
WASHINGTON – It’s all over but the shouting, or, in this case, the polite applause: Mitt Romney is going to be the Republican presidential nominee. But which Mitt Romney? Will it be Mitt One or Mitt Two?
EUGENE ROBINSON; THE WASHINGTON POST
WASHINGTON – Playing second fiddle to Mitt Romney won’t be easy, but somebody) has to be his running mate. Let’s handicap the field:
EUGENE ROBINSON; THE WASHINGTON POST
WASHINGTON – In arguments before the Supreme Court this week, the Obama administration might have done just enough to keep the Affordable Care Act from being ruled unconstitutional. Those who believe in limited government had better hope so, at least.
EUGENE ROBINSON; THE WASHINGTON POST
WASHINGTON – The “Stand Your Ground” laws in Florida and other states should all be repealed. At best, they are redundant. At worst, as in the Trayvon Martin killing, they are nothing but a license to kill.
EUGENE ROBINSON; THE WASHINGTON POST
WASHINGTON – For every black man in America, from the millionaire in the corner office to the mechanic in the local garage, the Trayvon Martin tragedy is personal. It could have been me or one of my sons. It could have been any of us.
EUGENE ROBINSON; THE WASHINGTON POST
WASHINGTON - Thus far, the 2012 presidential campaign has been unfocused, dispiriting and largely irrelevant. By the time Election Day comes, a weary nation will be at the point of pulling the covers over its head and screaming, “Somebody, please, make it stop.”
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