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Opinions: Washington Post Opinion, Editorial, Op Ed, Politics Editorials - The Washington Post The Washington Post Opinions section features opinion articles,newspaper editorials and letters to the editor on the issues of the day. Offerings include the Post Partisan blog by Washington Post opinion writers, as well as political cartoons and political cartoon animations by editorial cartoonists Tom Toles and Ann Telnaes.

Editorial Board: Montgomery's recipe for classroom failure Dec 22nd 2012, 23:34 ONE OF THE GREAT scandals of modern American society is the lack of educational opportunity for many poor, urban, mostly minority children. The nation's failure to educate these children properly deprives them of what should be an American birthright, the chance to live up to one's natural potential. There are two possible responses to this scandal: Ignore it, or try to fix it. A three-year moratorium on standardized testing, favored by Montgomery County Public Schools Superintendent Joshua P. Starr, would give the first option a big boost. Read full article >> Editorial Board: Mr. Obama's inertia on Guantanamo Dec 22nd 2012, 23:31 THE OBAMA administration has been wrongly constrained by Congress from winding down the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. But the rebuke it recently received from the International Committee of the Red Cross was entirely its own fault. Despite promising to set up a new system of reviews for foreign detainees still held at the facility, the administration had yet to hold a single proceeding. That means there is less due process at Guantanamo now than there was during the last years of the George W. Bush administration. Read full article >> Editorial Board: The 'milk cliff' Dec 22nd 2012, 23:26 WE INTERRUPT the drama over the "fiscal cliff" to bring you news of yet another scary precipice: the "milk cliff." Congress has not yet passed a new five-year bill reauthorizing agriculture programs. If lawmakers do not pass a bill by Dec. 31, the country will revert to 1949 dairy price support law. Under those 63-year-old rules, the Agriculture Department would be required to buy dairy products at $40 per hundredweight, or about twice the current market price. That would deliver a windfall to producers but drive milk prices up to as much as $8 per gallon in the supermarket. Read full article >> How to bring more bettors to the track Dec 22nd 2012, 22:23 Andrew Beyer had it exactly correct in his Dec. 18 Sports column, "New deal is a jackpot for Maryland horse racing." One statement in particular rang truest: "But if the Maryland Jockey Club wants to attract the attention of horse players, there is one thing that it could and should do: reduce the takeout." Read full article >> Better ways to limit deer Dec 22nd 2012, 22:21 Regarding Jim Sterba's Dec. 16 Outlook commentary, "To get along with deer, we need to shoot a few of them": Reducing the deer population may not be the best and most efficient way to reduce damage attributed to deer in urban areas. Most deer damage is site-specific and cannot be effectively addressed through population reduction. It's far more effective for landowners to use fencing and repellents to keep deer away from specific areas of concern. Read full article >> Readers respond to Newtown Dec 22nd 2012, 22:19 Eugene Robinson set up a straw man when he wrote, "More guns, with amateurs firing every which way, surely would have meant more dead children and more grieving families" ["A time for action," op-ed, Dec. 18]. I follow the news pretty closely, and I haven't heard any serious proposals for placing armed amateurs in schools; it is inaccurate to call armed security guards or other trained and certified individuals "amateurs." Read full article >>

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