Opinion: Today’s Opinion, and weekend highlights

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Your Opinion diet from today includes former Marine Corps war-gamer Gary Anderson telling us to think outside the cultural box when fighting the next war; former Clinton treasury secretary Lawrence Summers telling economic decision-makers to think outside the over-reaction box when addressing the sub-prime meltdown; and columnist Meghan Daum dreaming that her house had more room for boxes. In Editorials we urged revision of the Patriot Act, regionalism around Iraq, and realism about Manhattan Beach’s racist past.

What did you miss over the weekend? Bylined highlights include Ron Brownstein assessing Barack Obama’s blue collar problem, Daniel Hernandez assessing the immigrants’ rights movement one year after the protest, the LAPD’s Will Beall arguing that blacks and Latinos unite over crime, Jon Chait tweaking Republicans for digging in against Global Warming, Gregory Rodriguez observing El Paso’s conflicts over its colonial history, and Arianna Huffington lamenting that the War on Drugs is a war on minorities. Meanwhile, the Editorial Board argued for letting Arnold be Arnold, and keeping senior city officials higher above the fray of union-hotel disputes.