Opinion Columns
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Replacing Scalia will take an epic skirmishFeb 16, 2016 12:00 am - A public official can fight to expand the power and prerogatives of his office with skill and cunning. Defending the prerogatives of other officials, in another branch o...
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Trump an alpha on the riseFeb 14, 2016 12:00 am - COLUMBIA, S.C. - As Donald Trump's GOP opponents descend on South Carolina, they are running smack into a phenomenon. In this state, Trump is riding a wave of adulation ...
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Like teachers, our challenge is competing for attentionFeb 13, 2016 1:00 pm - It's an old saw that journalists are people who aren't good at math, didn't want to take it in college. Add foreign language to the list, at least when I was groping abo...
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Illinois voters should consider Cruz's Iowa win over Big EthanolFeb 12, 2016 12:00 am - Texas Sen. Ted Cruz won the Iowa caucus, defeating Republican front-runner Donald J. Trump. While Trump spent much of his time in Iowa scaring voters about a Cruz presid...
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Lessons of history are lost on the plains of AfghanistanFeb 12, 2016 12:00 am - Several days ago, I was leafing through my old columns and found myself faced with Afghanistan! Only, it was the Afghanistan of the late 1980s, which was an immeasurably...
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Slusher: Some deceptions to watch for as election approachesFeb 11, 2016 12:00 am - It should always be affirmed at the outset that for most elections, most candidates behave with dignity and a sense of responsibility. But at the same time, many don't. ...
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Why women in office matterFeb 11, 2016 12:00 am - Millennial women shouted their views with their votes in New Hampshire, where almost 80 percent of them went for Bernie Sanders. The primary followed a flurry of storie...
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A rising storm of ethnic fearFeb 10, 2016 12:00 am - Let me tell you about my boat. It has a single mast and a cabin at the stern. It is painted white with a red stripe at the water line. I bought it in Denmark, at the por...
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Strain on earth's resources is beginning to showFeb 10, 2016 12:00 am - In the earliest Republican presidential debates, one of the most frightening moments came when Carly Fiorina described her "memory" of seeing a "fully formed fetus on th...
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Adding obscenity to Trump's dishonest populismFeb 09, 2016 12:00 am - When the Watergate tapes were released, some Americans were dismayed at the many "expletives deleted" that Richard Nixon employed in private conversation. But as histori...