Opinions: Afternoon Edition

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Editor's Note: Please note that with the holiday week, your Afternoon Opinions newsletter will be on hiatus. We will return in the new year on January 4th. Most Viewed Opinions Columns 1) For sale: One senator (D-Neb.). No principles, low price. By Michael Gerson Sen. Bill Nelson uses his deepest beliefs as bargaining chips on health reform. 2)  When fun snowballs into anger By Daniel Schramm As the guy who wound up detained by the police, I think the layers of this incident's meaning are worth exploring. 3) The next decade from hell? By Ruth Marcus There are fewer reasons to cheer about the next. 4) 5 Myths about a president's first year By Chris Cillizza It has been nearly a year since Barack Obama was (sort of) sworn in as the 44th president of the United States. So what can his first year in office tell us about the next three? 5) For unions, a messy bargain By Harold Meyerson Labor dislikes health reform's compromises, but it can't lash out at the Senate just yet. 6) Bombast in Iran MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD of Iran says that the government over which he presides is "ten times" stronger than it was a year ago. Therefore, Mr. Ahmadinejad announced Tuesday, the Islamic Republic will defy the Obama administration's year-end deadline for accepting a U.N.-drafted proposal to trade Iran... 7) The roads not undertaken CHRISTOPHER WREN, the great 17th-century English architect, whose many works dominated the London scene, had as his epitaph, "If you seek his memorial, look about you." Similar words might be fitting for Peter S. Craig, who died Nov. 26 at the age of 81, only in his case it would be what you didn... 8)  Nominees in limbo SENATORS should show some goodwill for the holidays by approving pending executive and judicial nominations, some of which have languished for months. 9) Yes, it's all about him By Robert Samuelson Obama's self-indulgent crusade to seize the liberal holy grail of "universal coverage." 10)  Scrutinizing health-care reform The Senate health reform bill would do everything that Victoria Reggie Kennedy says it would do ["The moment he would not want to lose," Sunday Opinion, Dec. 20]. It would make health insurance affordable for 30 million people. The problem, however, is that the bill does not have an effective mec... UNSUBSCRIBE | Additional Newsletter Services | Advertising | Subscribe to the Paper | Privacy Policy

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