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• Froma Harrop: Real Democratic leader wanted

  August 6, 2011 in Opinion on Page A10 Ed Rendell, do you have plans for 2012? Hillary Clinton? If you, the former Democratic governor of Pennsylvania, or you, the secretary of state, are free next year and wouldn’t … 9

• Froma Harrop: Disparaging the French unbecoming

  July 3, 2010 in Opinion on Page B4 Thirty-six American cities and towns are named after the Marquis de Lafayette – the best-known being Fayetteville, N.C., and Lafayette, La. Countless streets, parks and counties also honor the French … 1

• Froma Harrop: Electric cars have rare political fuel

  June 22, 2010 in Opinion on Page A9 My magic wand is on the fritz, otherwise we’d have a big, new federal program to free America from its dependence on oil. Like other environmentalists, I’m sad that the … 2

• Froma Harrop: Tea party may be GOP’s downfall

  June 12, 2010 in Opinion on Page B4 It’s hard to call the outcomes of recent primaries a “voter uprising.” It looks more like democracy in action than a series of coups d’état. Replacing party establishment favorites with …

• Froma Harrop: Odds go to Obama’s experts

  June 8, 2010 in Opinion on Page A9 Gulf Coast residents are supposedly mad at President Barack Obama for not keeping the oil from threatening their beaches and marshes. We hear this in stereo – from political opposition … 11

• It’s GOP that needs to find center

  February 20, 2010 in Opinion on Page B4 We keep hearing that “Obama should move to the center.” A variation on this theme is that the president should find the “sensible middle” on policy. But what the heck … 4

• Froma Harrop: Air security begs naked truth

  December 31, 2009 in Opinion on Page A11 U.S. Rep. Jason Chaffetz proudly championed a measure last spring that bans whole-body imaging as a primary screening technique at airports. “You don’t have to look at my wife and …

• Froma Harrop: Sometimes older, not wiser

  August 12, 2009 in Opinion on Page A13 Let’s talk about greedy geezers. The term displeases me because I find the vast majority of older people to be wonderfully generous and concerned for others. But there’s a noisy … 1

• Froma Harrop: Grandma needn’t fear Medicare fix

  August 1, 2009 in Opinion on Page B4 Some attacks on health care reform are so ludicrous that you don’t think they need answering. A recent example invokes an evil plot to save money by knocking off the … 2

• Froma Harrop: Judge nominee on her merits

  May 29, 2009 in Opinion on Page A13 Identity politics are not good for the country or for the groups they purport to advance. This is not to undercut Sonia Sotomayor, who, as the news reports all start …

• Froma Harrop: A whole lotta sharin’ going on

  May 19, 2009 in Opinion on Page A15 It pains me to take Elizabeth Edwards to task for anything. She is suffering from terminal cancer and from assertions that her cheating husband fathered a child with a party …

• Froma Harrop: Removing Utah’s red facade

  April 30, 2009 in Opinion on Page A11 SALT LAKE CITY – American flags and lush spring grass lined the long drive of a Mormon meetinghouse here in the desert capital of Utah. Television trucks parked outside. Utahans …

• Froma Harrop: Time’s right to fix energy policy

  April 10, 2009 in Opinion on Page A15 Seems a lifetime ago that the price of crude approached $150 a barrel, but it was only last summer. Remember how people went nuts? Santa Barbara County voted for oil … 1

• Froma Harrop: Blue Dogs bark up right tree

  April 3, 2009 in Opinion on Page A15 There’s trouble around the Democratic campfire. The party has the White House and solid congressional majorities. But what it doesn’t have is everyone singing the same tune. Liberals who kept …

• Froma Harrop: Health care part of economic cure

  March 27, 2009 in Opinion on Page A19 The Duke basketball coach and most other Americans believe that President Obama is unwisely diverting his attention from the sick economy. In the case of Coach Mike Krzyzewski, the unhappiness …

• Froma Harrop: When U.S. balks, Canada benefits

  March 10, 2009 in Opinion on Page A11 When a pizzeria closes, the pizzeria down the block usually sees a surge in business. That principle applies to commerce in the larger North American neighborhood. Whenever the United States … 1

• Froma Harrop: Rich have felt bigger tax bite before

  March 6, 2009 in Opinion on Page A15 Amid pleas to spare the rich, the right is accusing the Obama administration of waging vile class warfare. They envision wooden carts carrying the wealthiest 2 percent to the guillotine. … 1

• Froma Harrop: GOP fails to work in real time

  February 27, 2009 in Opinion on Page A11 How big should government be? The answer is: As big as it has to be – and for small-government types, no bigger than it has to be. The whole debate …

• Froma Harrop: Social Security requires no fixing

  February 19, 2009 in Opinion on Page A15 “Round up everybody that can ride a horse or pull a trigger,” John Wayne says in “Chisum.” “Let’s break out some Winchesters.” That’s how I feel every time someone calls …

• Crime flourishes in the Sunbelt

  February 10, 2009 in Opinion on Page A11 PALM BEACH, Fla. – Oh, it’s another sun-blessed, balmy day in Palm Beach County. Were it not for the foreclosures, collapse in tourism and Madoff scandal, all would seem perfect. …

• Burst bubble fuels DIY shift

  December 28, 2008 in Opinion on Page B8 “Doing it yourself these days?” asks the Depression-era ad for bleach. It shows pampered hands wading in a tub full of laundry. There’s more doing-it-yourself in this Great Recession, as …