Opinion Columns
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The war on Mideast ChristiansJan 05, 2014 4:00 am - In some parts of the world, Herod’s massacre of the innocents is a living tradition. On Christmas Day in Iraq, 37 people were killed in bomb attacks in Christian distric...
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A changing perspective for Indian-AmericansJan 03, 2014 4:00 am - Home is where the heart lies, but in recent weeks, some Indian-Americans have begun questioning their hearts and loosening ties with their ancestral home. Like those in ...
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The tale of one cityJan 02, 2014 4:00 am - “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” So goes the first sentence in “A Tale of Two Cities.” It applies to us now. Except, 2013 was the tale of two old d...
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Hillary Clinton’s unlucky yearDec 31, 2013 4:00 am - It is incumbent on me as a columnist to do one of those year-end things — the 10 best of this, the 10 worst of that or, as you will see, who had the worst year in politi...
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The symbiotic relationship between columnist, readersDec 31, 2013 4:00 am - The year-end review required of all columnists inevitably brings us to the mailbag and a few clarifications. For the record, I read my mail but never online comments. A...
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From Antioch to South Elgin, we pick our favorite letters of 2013Dec 30, 2013 8:53 am - Right out of the gate we decided we weren’t going to call this the “best letters” of the year. A few more titles — “memorable” was a close second — were suggested and di...
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GOP quietly builds an Obamacare alternativeDec 29, 2013 4:00 am - “The only alternative that Obamacare’s critics have is, well, ‘let’s just go back to the status quo,’” said President Obama recently, “because they sure haven’t presente...
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Lessons from the jazz masters beyond musicDec 27, 2013 4:00 am - Two of my main passions — in work as well as in the rest of my life — are jazz and the Constitution, which interact. Jazz, banned by Hitler and Stalin, is America’s grea...
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I know it’s only words in print but I like itDec 26, 2013 9:12 am - I come today, in the midst of the holiday-dulled news cycle, simply in praise of reading. The ceaseless and almost gleeful speculations on the demise of the printed word...
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Time to say yesDec 26, 2013 4:00 am - Finally, the grown-ups have taken back control of Capitol Hill. The question now is whether they can keep it. The passage of a modest bipartisan budget plan shows that C...