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In announcing the death of Osama bin Laden, President Barack Obama understandably left out the part about how the military operation had also done away with Donald Trump’s presidential candidacy, making room for serious candidates to compete.

If anyone can grow up to be president, does that mean anyone who runs should be covered as if he could be president, even when he couldn’t possibly be? I’m speaking of Donald Trump. The press is caught in a spiral, covering his possible candidacy and rise in the polls, which necessitate covering him even more.

Some mistakes are such doozies, with consequences so serious, that the only honorable thing for the perpetrator to do is own up, resign and make amends. In Washington, that rarely happens. There may be as many as 6,600 mislabeled or unmarked graves at Arlington National Cemetery, and the closest thing to accountability so far is that two cemetery officials were allowed to retire.

One thing we should expect from our government is certainty about who won an election and, within a reasonable margin of error, by how much. Government famously failed that test in the 2000 presidential election and did so again last week in a down-to-the-wire election for a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

“It isn’t fair!” is a cry we try in kindergarten and never give up. To tamp down this thirst for instant justice, the nuns at my school invoked the sweet hereafter, where all wrongs would be righted, as a reason for us to suck it up at recess. As an adult, and a lucky one, the last thing I want now is fairness. I could be waiting on tables instead of being served at them, delivering the papers instead of writing for them.

President Barack Obama’s announcement that he would require federal agencies to review regulations on their books and remove those that “stifle job creation and make our economy less competitive” made me wonder.

Ballots are delivered to the Board of Election Commissioners headquarters in downtown St. Louis Tuesday night by police car. Jerry Layton, shown here, is among the workers accepting them.

How can President Barack Obama be so right about the mosque and yet get it so wrong? Here’s how: He is so supremely confident in his intellect that he forgets, on his way to the correct decision, to slow down ...

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You be the judge: Which was a worse example of the U.S. Congress at work this week? Was it Sen. Jim Bunning, Republican of Kentucky, launching a one-man crusade against extending unemployment and health-insurance benefits while whining about missing a ...

If you repeat something often enough, it becomes conventional wisdom. Republicans insist they are not simply the Party of No. They are the Party of Plans, which they press with gusto upon anyone who will pay attention. Walk slowly through ...

The unmitigated disaster of the underwear bomber’s success – slipping through security despite waving every red flag imaginable – was enough to make even our preternaturally calm president angry. Not angry enough for his aides, who rushed out to issue ...

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