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Susan Estrich: Name brands

You've got a Nunn running in Georgia, a Pryor in Arkansas and a Landrieu in Louisiana.

Leonard Pitts: Enough slaughter

I am running out of words.

Thomas Sowell: Random thoughts

Random thoughts on the passing scene: Will the Veterans Administration scandal wake up those people who have been blithely saying that what we need is a "single payer" system for medical care?

Kathleen Parker: Fair warning, provoking a thought is literature's job

Just when you thought American higher learning couldn't get any more ridiculous, along come demands for warning labels on provocative works of literature.

Rheta Johnson: Mel Rosen ran the distance

Mel Rosen is a liberal Jewish Democrat from Brighton Beach, New York, who in 1955 arrived at conservative, football-obsessed Auburn University in the segregated Deep South. He was hired to teach gymnastics and assigned seven daily classes. His dream was to coach track.

Leonard Pitts: It's time to show our veterans some love

A few days ago in an airport restaurant, I saw a scene that has become commonplace in recent years. These soldiers were sitting there talking, waiting for their meal. And this guy on the way out detoured over to them. "Thank you for your service," he said. They nodded, thanked him for thanking them. He went on his way and they went back to talking.

Froma Harrop: Don't privatize the veterans hospitals

President Obama can do himself a big political favor this month by saying simply this: "I will not privatize the VA hospitals."

Leonard Pitts: When women attack men -- a double standard

What if he had smacked her one? She's going after him with fists and feet. What if he had defended himself in kind? Or what if he had been the one who attacked her without physical provocation?

Thomas Sowell: Poverty and snow storms

Many years ago, in upstate New York, there was a lady who was caught in a fierce snow storm that produced conditions called a "whiteout." That's when the snow is falling so thick and fast that all you can see in any direction is just sheer white.

Froma Harrop: Other paths to better pay

Did you read about investors in Chipotle Mexican Grill rejecting the outlandish pay package the fast-food chain's two CEOs had cooked up for themselves? Stockholders overwhelmingly booed the mega-million payout, which would have come on top of the $300 million the duo have harvested in recent years.

Charlie Mitchell: Flood insurance a case study in a good idea gone bad

The federal government sues Mississippi fairly often. Less often, Mississippi sues America -- but it does happen. Two years ago, the state Department of Insurance objected in court to congressional action to sustain the National Flood Insurance Program. Why? The law made the insurance cost too much -- way too much.

Kathleen Parker: Bill Maher speaks his mind, unfortunately

When my neighbor gleefully reported that Bill Maher had dedicated a searing monologue to me for a column I wrote about the Donald Sterling/Cliven Bundy rants, my first thought was, Nah . If I tussled with everybody who tossed a brick through the window, I'd never get the draperies hung.

Susan Estrich: When a woman gets fired

What do they call it when a man gets fired from a top job? Wednesday. Or, if appropriate, Monday or Tuesday or Thursday or Friday. When a woman gets fired, it's called breaking news.

Leonard Pitts: In hyperpartisan America, there's no room for compassion

A hypothetical scenario: Your little boy lies in a hospital bed, stricken by a mysterious, potentially fatal disease. You are frightened and in despair.

Froma Harrop: All Sheldon Adelson wants

There is something truly spectacular about Sheldon Adelson. Witness the parade of Republican supplicants paying tribute in his Las Vegas lair.

Susan Estrich: What do you say about a vulgarian?

My friends from outside of Los Angeles are horrified. "Donald Sterling is a pig?" they say with surprise. "A racist, ignorant, loud-mouthed fool?" And Jewish, to boot. This is not, my mother would have said, good for the Jews.

Rheta Johnson: Dogs, clocks and a drink of Crown Royal

Luke Hall had a name like a hero in an old Western -- simple, strong and uncompromising. It was fitting.

Leonard Pitts: Justice for all ... except those too big for jail

Fair warning: This book will make you angry.

Froma Harrop: Monica Lewinsky, grace in humiliation

How refreshing to hear Monica Lewinsky recount the depth of her shame. When it was revealed in 1998 that she had provided then-President Clinton with oral sex, Lewinsky now writes in Vanity Fair, she "was arguably the most humiliated person in the world."

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