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Most Viewed Opinions Columns 1) Don't let the climate doubters fool you By Alan I. Leshner Sarah Palin distorted the clear scientific evidence that Earth's climate is changing. 2)  Beyond the NRA's absolutism By E.J. Dionne Jr. A poll of NRA members and other gun owners shows most favor reasonable rules. 3) The right words for a war president By David Ignatius Obama's rhetoric doesn't yet match the insights he is bringing to governing. 4) Copenhagen's political science By Sarah Palin The agenda-driven policies being pushed won't change the weather. 5) Rise of the Fed bashers By George F. Will If it wants to manage the economy, the Fed should expect Congress to meddle. 6) The real stakes in Afghanistan By Robin Wright Obama hasn't fully explained the stakes in whether we win or lose. 7) Medicare sausage? THE ONLY THING more unsettling than watching legislative sausage being made is watching it being made on the fly. The 11th-hour "compromise" on health-care reform and the public option supposedly includes an expansion of Medicare to let people ages 55 to 64 buy into the program. This is an idea d... 8)  Tiger's validation complex By Eugene Robinson The interesting and disappointing aspects of the golfer's taste in alleged mistresses. 9) Curbing carbon AT THE COPENHAGEN climate conference on Wednesday, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson declared 2009 to be when the U.S. government finally began to seriously address greenhouse gas emissions. The reason? Her formal finding on Monday that carbon emissions pose a danger t... 10)  Doing the math in D.C. ONLY ONE CONCLUSION can be drawn from national tests showing D.C. public schools outpacing many of their big-city peers in bettering students' math skills: The reforms being undertaken by Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee are working. But even as the District celebrates the loss of its dubious status a... UNSUBSCRIBE | Additional Newsletter Services | Advertising | Subscribe to the Paper | Privacy Policy

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