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Meghan Cox Gurdon: Oh, the agony of parenthood
- If, on a sunny day, your small children open a lemonade stand, do you charge them for the lemons pilfered from your kitchen? Of course not? What kind of a scrooge do I take you for?
Chris Stirewalt: Will John McCain learn from GOP's latest loss?
- While some Republicans are eager to exploit the political weaknesses Hillary Clinton has exposed in Barack Obama during her march through the backcountry, John McCain won’t be able to make use of Obama’s cultural disconnection as ably as the former first lady.
Heidi Shierholz and Emily Garr: U.S. lacking in maternity leave benefits
- This Mother’s Day, we reflect[ed] on the critical but often overlooked issue of maternity leave. In a selection of 19 countries with comparable per capita income, the United States provides the fewest maternity leave benefits in both length of leave and paid time off. This is considered separate from any disability insurance for which one may qualify.
Jay Ambrose: China, Russia protect brutal Myanmar junta
- W hat a rotten piece of work this Myanmar junta is. It jails, tortures and murders its political opponents, makes children soldiers, sits happily by while troops rape women, and now on top of these evils and more, it does this new thing, this almost unbelievable thing, this abetting of a monstrous cyclone through hampering aid to its victims.
Irwin Stelzer: Depends on the meaning of ‘it’
- Money men say it is over. The economists say it might only have begun. And the politicians are loving every minute of it. Perhaps it all depends on what the meaning of the word “it” is.
Chuck Simmins: No greater love has any man
- On Dec. 4, 2006, Ross McGinnis did something few are asked to consider. He gave his life that others might live. It’s not a choice that you make over a period of months. It’s something you decide in a flash, and act — or not.
Melanie Scarborough: ‘Colorblind’ government a joke
- Ah, the fruits of prosperity. The federal government is so flush with our money that it not only pays for 800,000 “nonessential” employees; our money sends them to training conferences that are worse than nonessential.
John Boehner: Follow the money trail to see why Dem Congress shields trial lawyers
- A scandal has been emerging in the trial lawyer industry. It points to a potentially cancerous growth in our economy that is killing jobs and hampering prosperity at a time when families are being pummeled by the rising cost of living. What are Democrats in Congress planning to do about it? So far, the answer has been: nothing.
Timothy Carney: Big Government churns out more Democrats
- T ax and tax. Spend and spend. Elect and elect!” New Deal architect Harry Hopkins may not have actually spoken those words, but they have nonetheless been the working motto of Democrats for 75 years.
Dan Popeo: The American legal profession must clean its own house
- Some of America’s most experienced, powerful, and successful lawyers are now behind bars, or soon will be, giving new meaning to the phrase “jailhouse lawyers.” Consider the more recent inductees into the lawyers’ hall of shame.
Meghan Cox Gurdon: My beautiful cut-n-pasted mommy
- Even as you read this, sweet little children across the country are carefully finishing the last, dear festive bits of the card, collage or tiny, clumsy sculpture that they have made to give to the temporary love of their young lives on Mother’s Day.
Chris Stirewalt: Hillary has bad case of Republican envy
- As military philosophers from Sun Tzu to the screenwriters of “Iron Man” have taught us, adversaries come to resemble each other over time.
Jim Copland: Asbestos litigation far from over
- They’re baaack! Trial-lawyer-driven asbestos mass screenings, thought to be in the dustbin of history after Texas Judge Janis Graham Jack uncovered far-reaching fraud in the enterprise in 2005, have recently reappeared.