Opinion Columns
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Susan Rice’s tarnished resumeNov 19, 2012 4:00 am - President Obama had a rare “bring-it-on moment” when ABC News’ Jonathan Karl asked him about threats by Republican Sens. John McCain and Lindsey Graham to block confirma...
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Absent-minded editor glad staff has his backNov 18, 2012 4:00 am - The news release came in late Wednesday afternoon, announcing that a man from Glen Ellyn had won a $1 million lottery drawing. As a veteran news editor, I knew exactly w...
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The toxic allianceNov 18, 2012 4:00 am - The Catholic Church — a politically and ethnically sprawling institution — has no natural home on the American ideological spectrum. Neither major party combines moral c...
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Give back to Mexico — for what?Nov 16, 2012 4:00 am - MEXICO CITY — In the United States, some on the nativist fringe suspect that Mexican-Americans are reconquistas. As if we’re agents of the Mexican government working qu...
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They led us to the cliff but can’t make us jumpNov 16, 2012 4:00 am - The Tea Party now has its own news site. Based at the Venetian Resort in Las Vegas, the Tea Party News Network describes itself as “the only trusted news source.” It foc...
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GOP’s problems were bigger than just Candy and SandyNov 14, 2012 5:33 pm - The 2012 presidential election is at last over. And despite all of the political spinning, huge expenditures of money, media driven hoopla and an ongoing terrible econom...
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The mandate to raise taxes on the “rich”Nov 14, 2012 4:00 pm - Within days of winning the election, President Obama announced that his victory gave him a mandate to raise taxes on the “rich.” Come again? This was a two-and-a-half-po...
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Personal ethics, public trust and PetraeusNov 14, 2012 3:54 pm - The Petraeus affair -- like some Ethics 101 thought experiment -- is an exceptionally difficult test case in determining the proper relationship between personal ethics ...
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The party is what ruined it for RomneyNov 14, 2012 4:00 am - The headline was inevitable: “What went wrong?” Seriously? Republicans plan to commence focus groups and voter-based polls to discover the mystery behind their loss. H...
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Still the best man for the jobNov 14, 2012 4:00 am - The story is told of the French diplomat in the bad days of the Cold War who was approached by a Soviet agent and shown pictures of himself having sex with a woman most ...