Opinion Columns
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Israel's moral argument is at riskMar 03, 2015 12:00 am - Back in Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Likud Party have run a campaign ad reminding voters of another time when the U.S. and Israel differed. That was...
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Can Obama, Ryan team up to persuade trade hard-liners?Mar 03, 2015 12:00 am - There is a very short list of topics on which the Democratic president and the Republican Congress might actually cooperate. In fact, the list might contain only one ite...
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Trooper rehab longer than trucker sentenceFeb 28, 2015 12:00 am - The attorney for trucker Renato Velasquez put it well: "This case has no winners. It was just a tragedy." But the wife of severely injured state trooper Douglas Balder p...
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History is in the eye of the beholderFeb 27, 2015 12:00 am - Some of you reading this might feel an uncomfortable little twinge in the gut, but I believe the time has come to honestly address an issue that a scarce few are willing...
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The political act of judging ChristiansFeb 27, 2015 12:00 am - When Scott Walker pronounced himself agnostic about President Obama's patriotism and Christian faith, it must have seemed like a clever formulation. "I've never asked hi...
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Slusher: The necessarily relentless drive for better thingsFeb 26, 2015 12:00 am - Change is frustratingly slow. Emphasis sometimes on frustratingly. I'm thinking now of two particular scourges that for years have been causes célèbre for the Daily Hera...
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Rumors of a new cold war have real roots in historyFeb 26, 2015 12:00 am - When the world is as dangerous and askew as it seems today, our nation's capital easily becomes rife with speculation. Rumors rule, and the globe is cracked with incoher...
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History is in the eye of the beholderFeb 26, 2015 12:00 am - Some of you reading this might feel an uncomfortable little twinge in the gut, but I believe the time has come to honestly address an issue that a scarce few are willing...
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Obama wise not to change nature of intra-Muslim fightFeb 25, 2015 12:00 am - Looking around the world, I see little but debacles. Vladimir Putin has his way with Ukraine, treating Europe and the United States with the contempt they have so assidu...
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Obama controls his message by cracking the digital codeFeb 25, 2015 12:00 am - YOLO! That's slang for "You only live once," and the phrase was popularized by the rapper Drake in his 2011 hit song "The Motto." (We had to look that one up.) It was al...