Opinion Columns
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Bonfire of the straw menJan 23, 2013 4:00 pm - A young reporter who has only covered President Obama’s first term has already witnessed several political epochs. Obama’s election was a symbol of reconciliation in Am...
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Our vital move from race to legacyJan 23, 2013 4:00 am - President Barack Hussein Obama’s second inauguration was every bit as historic as his first — not because it said so much about the nation’s long, bitter, unfinished str...
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Health care act’s death star?Jan 22, 2013 4:00 am - A willow, not an oak. So said conservatives of Chief Justice John Roberts when he rescued the Affordable Care Act — aka Obamacare — from being found unconstitutional. Bu...
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The necessity to act in SyriaJan 22, 2013 4:00 am - There are two kinds of wars, we are told — wars of choice and wars of necessity. The former is to be avoided and the latter fought with appropriate reluctance. World War...
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El futuro habla espanol (The future speaks Spanish)Jan 21, 2013 4:00 am - The new year began with an avalanche of Republican retrospectives: What went wrong? What must the GOP do? In attempting to navigate my own thoughts, I keep bumping into...
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Our dysfunction quagmireJan 21, 2013 4:00 am - Our dysfunction quagmire President Obama is set to begin his second term at a moment when the question is not what great things our nation can achieve but whether our g...
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No impossible dreamJan 20, 2013 3:00 am - Don’t listen to those who say President Obama’s bold plan to reduce gun violence — including an assault weapons ban — has no chance in Congress. I seem to recall that he...
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Aaron Swartz was accused of real crimesJan 18, 2013 7:59 am - Aaron Swartz: Robin Hood or John Dillinger? He was not as virtuous as Robin and hardly as bad as John. Call the computer genius saint or sinner, few will argue with labe...
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A new strategy for the GOPJan 18, 2013 7:36 am - It has become conventional wisdom that Republicans are suffering an internal split that President Obama is successfully exploiting to neuter the Republican House. It is ...
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Daniels: The one who got awayJan 18, 2013 4:00 am - Just before noon on Jan. 14, Mitch Daniels ceased to be governor of Indiana. By 2 p.m. he was in West Lafayette conducting a meeting as the soon-to-be president of Purdu...