Opinion Columns
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The politics of threatDec 28, 2012 4:00 am - The people are sad. If holiday shopping is any measure of public mood, the joy vanished this year. The grade-school massacre depressed everyone, and now our rapid approa...
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The door-opener to AmericaDec 28, 2012 4:00 am - At the end of this year in which election results reinserted immigration into the political conversation, remember that 2012 is the 150th anniversary of “the first compr...
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When healers are the targetsDec 27, 2012 4:00 am - The murder of eight polio vaccination workers during 48 hours in Pakistan has all the hallmarks of a Taliban operation: coordinated, ruthless and monstrous. The attacks ...
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Politics and personal responsibilityDec 26, 2012 4:00 am - In the wake of the Newtown, Conn., tragedy, every politician who has me on his or her email list — and there are many, on both sides of the aisle — has been filling my i...
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Still here? Happy New Bak’tunDec 25, 2012 4:00 am - If you’re reading this, the Maya were wrong. Rather, they would have been wrong if they’d actually predicted the end of the world, which scholars are pretty sure they di...
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Through a lens, lightlyDec 25, 2012 4:00 am - In today’s world of social media, where everyone’s every little thing is on display, it is sometimes difficult to recall a time when exhibitionism wasn’t ubiquitous and ...
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The filibuster stalkerDec 23, 2012 4:00 am - Ideas are not responsible for the people who believe them, but when evaluating Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s ideas for making the Senate more like the House of Rep...
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Leadership Team, people behind it, simply inspiringDec 23, 2012 4:00 am - How about some words on a topic that might be inspirational as we close in on the Christmas holiday? For more than a decade, the Daily Herald has formally honored our hi...
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Online and in your faceDec 21, 2012 9:06 am - They don’t like the crowds, the traffic, the parking chaos. They dislike the sameness — the same mall chain stores piping in the same holiday music and selling the same ...
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Real “realism” on gun controlDec 21, 2012 4:00 am - The usual gun extremists largely went into hiding this weekend after the obscenity in Connecticut. The National Rifle Association offered only a flowery expression of sy...