Opinion Columns
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Romney’s present, Ryan’s futureAug 21, 2012 5:00 am - Vice presidential picks are always judged by their effect on the coming election. They rarely have any. This time could be different. The Democrats’ Mediscare barrage i...
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Death of a salesgirlAug 20, 2012 5:00 am - The legendary Cosmo Girl, Helen Gurley Brown, has died and with her, one hopes, a not-so-fabulous legacy. This would be the demonstrably ridiculous notion that women ca...
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Facts get in the wayAug 20, 2012 5:00 am - Republicans and Democrats are being equally nasty in their campaign rhetoric, but they’re not being equally truthful. To cite one example, much of what the GOP is saying...
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A 10-year-old who loved and was belovedAug 19, 2012 7:53 pm - The suspected killer of my son has been arrested. And now another round of news stories about the tragedy of 10-year-old Tony Borcia’s death has and will continue to ens...
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The biggest of many big deals comes to MedinahAug 19, 2012 7:00 pm - You'd think this big-tournament-hosting stuff would be old hat to Medinah Country Club. Since 1949, the venerable golf club has held three U.S. Opens, a U.S. Senior Open...
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Obama’s betrayalAug 17, 2012 5:00 am - In the innocent, bygone days of February, President Obama told NBC News that the campaign would get negative against him, but provided this assurance: “I think that you ...
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Outsourcing moralizing to liberalsAug 16, 2012 1:44 pm - It’s a given in many conservative circles that the rise of single-parent families is the biggest cause of increasing economic inequality and that liberals are to blame. ...
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In fiction as in fact, credibility is king for papersAug 16, 2012 9:05 am - The tweet from longtime newspaper blogger Jim Romenesko was not to be resisted. “Netflix says ‘State of Play’ is the most popular newspaper film. (“Zodiac” is #2 and ‘Ci...
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All talk, no muscle on SyriaAug 15, 2012 1:53 pm - The awful things that could have happened had the United States intervened in Syria are now happening anyway. The insurrection has become a civil war. Neighboring countr...
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A campaign out of balanceAug 15, 2012 5:00 am - Mitt Romney’s selection of Paul Ryan as his running mate underscores the central question posed by this campaign: Should cold selfishness become the template for our soc...