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Walter Dellinger looks at the life of John Hope Franklin:
He worked on a crucial brief for Brown v. Board of Education, he marched in Selma, he lectured all over the world and he taught all of America to see through his uncompromising eye. But it was not just what he did but how he did it that marked his greatness. He understood that the public good was not merely a set of substantive outcomes; it is also defined by how we go about reconciling our competing visions of that public good. It is about how we view one another when we peer across the great divides of policy, preference, political party and personhood. John Hope Franklin looked at those who opposed him and saw fellow human beings.
David Broder says that President Obama seems to be immune from the current madness in Washington. And in other news, Broder's NCAA brackets are sucking.
E.J. Dionne cuts to the chase on deficits:
The debate on the budget is phony, the howling on deficits a charade. Few politicians want to acknowledge that if you really are concerned about long-term deficits, you have to support tax increases.
Roger Cohen says that pressure is building on President Obama to "recast" our failed policies towards Israel and Palestine.
Gail Collins thinks "the country needs a new, improved villian," because:
... there appears to be only two constants in our ever-changing world. One is that Barack Obama is going to be on television every day forever. No venue is too strange. Soon, he’ll be on “Dancing With the Stars” (“And now, doing the Health Care, Energy and Education tango ...”) or delivering the weather report. (“Here we see a wave of systemic change, moving across the nation ...”)
The other immutable truth is that we always need to have somebody we can be really, really angry at.
Richard Epstein discusses the constitutionality of the TARP bonus tax ... well, actually he mostly complains about the Supreme Court deferring to Congress too much.
Tony Blankley says that with the current economic crisis:
If ever we are in a nonideological moment, it is now.
It's probably a coincidence that the time never came when the Republicans were in power.
Andres Oppenheimer on drugs, guns, and Mexico says:
When Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton visits Mexico this week to discuss the drug-related violence that left 6,200 dead there last year, and which is now spreading across the U.S. border, she should be told in unmistakable terms: Stop the trafficking of U.S. guns that is fueling the bloodshed.
Karl Rove collects another check for mindlessly parroting GOP talking points. Nothing to see here.