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• David S. Broder: Obama adjusting to command

  May 21, 2009 in Opinion on Page A11 No new president finds that every aspect of the job suits him at once. What we have witnessed in the last few weeks is Barack Obama trying on and fitting …

• Kathleen Parker: Of monarchs, missteps and slack

  April 12, 2009 in Opinion on Page B8 About that bow. Did he or didn’t he – the president of the United States, that is – bow to Saudi King Abdullah in a deferential greeting? And, if he … 1

• Kathleen Parker: A new McCain maverick

  March 27, 2009 in Opinion on Page A19 The GOP’s identity crisis just got more interesting with the recent media splash of Meghan McCain, daughter of the senator who did not become president. Young McCain, who began blogging …

• David S. Broder: Given chance, Obama leaps

  February 26, 2009 in Opinion on Page A11 The size of the gamble that President Barack Obama is taking every day is simply staggering. What came through in his speech to a joint session of Congress and a …

• 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 …

• 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 …