Opinion Columns
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Slusher: Tweets, reality TV and confusing excitementApr 30, 2015 1:00 am - I wonder if you can guess which part of this phrase, which I noticed while reviewing Twitter one day last week, got me to click on the link that followed: "that is not h...
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Obama the trade salesmanApr 30, 2015 1:00 am - President Obama faces a big selling job: pushing massive trade deals, now nearing conclusion with Asia and Europe, through a recalcitrant Congress. The facts are on his ...
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The baggage Hillary bringsApr 30, 2015 1:00 am - Assuming there is no direct quid pro quo in the thicket of Clinton Foundation donations and State Department decisions - an assumption that may make an abettor out of yo...
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Barack Obama is no Neville ChamberlainApr 29, 2015 1:00 am - If he accomplished nothing else during his presidency, Barack Obama has surely earned a place in the Bad Political Analogies Hall of Fame. According to savants on Fox Ne...
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If Trump runs, others winApr 29, 2015 1:00 am - Where's the Donald? Where is Donald Trump? He has sort of hung around presidential candidate events and even launched a presidential exploratory committee, but when the ...
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With a song in prisoners' heartsApr 28, 2015 1:00 am - BISHOPVILLE, S.C. - Lee Correctional Institution, South Carolina's largest maximum-security prison, gets plenty of bad press - from a riot and a lockdown in February to ...
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Two Chicago Grabowskis: Doug Buffone And Cardinal GeorgeApr 27, 2015 1:00 am - The Daily Herald's editorial about the legacy of cardinal George made me think about spiritual strength, and the death of Doug Buffone last week reinforced my thoughts. ...
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No Pulitzer for heroin coverage, but these reporters truly are prizedApr 26, 2015 1:00 am - Alas, we did not win the 2015 Pulitzer Prize. The most prestigious award in journalism this past week went to the Los Angeles Times for stories about California's massiv...
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'The road to character'Apr 26, 2015 1:00 am - Most of us have an image of the counterculture, shaped by memory or mythmaking, that involves Haight-Ashbury, flea-market clothing, free love and a haze of pot smoke. Bu...
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For the media, traditional values still matterApr 24, 2015 1:00 am - I have been involved in politics and policy-making for over 50 years, and as you can imagine I hold strong feelings about reporters and the media. They're not what you ...