Opinion Columns
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Once upon a disappearanceSep 27, 2012 5:00 am - I’ve written variations of this column a couple of times during the past 20 years, but certain occasions bear revisiting — and surely the disappearance of a friend is on...
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Looking forward, not backSep 26, 2012 12:37 pm - As I write this, Jews across the world are preparing for the holiest day of the year: Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. Yom Kippur is the day on which we seek forgivenes...
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Missing an openingSep 26, 2012 5:00 am - This presidential race is not over. Mitt Romney remains close in most swing states, though durable polling deficits in Ohio and Virginia are enough to trouble even the ...
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The GOP’s brain drainSep 26, 2012 5:00 am - In 1980 Ronald Reagan won the Republican nomination. He beat a future president, George H.W. Bush, two future Senate majority leaders, Howard Baker and Bob Dole, and two...
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Froma can’t speak for rest of usSep 26, 2012 4:40 am - This letter is in regard to Froma Harrop’s column in the Sept. 11 edition of the Daily Herald in which she claimed to be better off than she was four years ago. Ms. Harr...
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Collapse of the Cairo DoctrineSep 25, 2012 5:00 am - In the week following Sept. 11 this year, something big happened: the collapse of the Cairo Doctrine, the centerpiece of President Obama’s foreign policy. It was to rese...
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When blue-collar whites turned RepublicanSep 25, 2012 5:00 am - Liberals strain to understand why so many blue-collar whites have made their home in the Republican Party. Yes, the GOP better connects with this group on social and lif...
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Refusing to undo the damageSep 24, 2012 5:00 am - I used to joke that there was no hat that Michael Dukakis could have put on in a school or hospital that would have doomed his campaign the way that helmet did (with the...
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From Utah, with LoveSep 23, 2012 5:00 am - SALT LAKE CITY — A specter is haunting the Congressional Black Caucus, the specter of integration. It is discomforting enough that the now 43-member CBC has included a R...
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Romney’s class warfareSep 23, 2012 5:00 am - Now, at least, there can be no doubt about who is waging class warfare in this presidential campaign. Mitt Romney would pit the winners against the “victims,” the smug-a...