Opinion Columns
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Newspapers and the role of listening in public debateJun 07, 2012 5:00 am - And listen to others. Even the dull and ignorant. They too have their stories. --”Desiderata,” Max Ehrmann What is so bad about listening, especially about listening to ...
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But can the candidates sing?Jun 07, 2012 5:00 am - All the world’s a stage, all right, and never so much as when presidential politics are in play. But reality transcended metaphor Monday when crooner-in-chief Barack Ob...
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Romney’s faith is his businessJun 06, 2012 5:00 am - The most popular item on The Washington Post’s website on Sunday was a very good article by Jason Horowitz headlined “Is Mitt Romney’s Mormonism fair game?” The answer, ...
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Why the ‘old country’ is best left behindJun 06, 2012 1:00 am - I have never seen so many mirrors in a hotel room before. Even the nightstands are mirrored. The switches for the lights aren’t switches but lighted panels. There is not...
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Dumb money for dummiesJun 05, 2012 5:00 am - In the beginning, there was pump and dump. In the dot-com bubble of the late ’90s, the stock-analyzing arms of investment banks would pump up a new stock’s price with ra...
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Wisconsin’s temper tantrumJun 05, 2012 5:00 am - I’ll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up. No sir, Not I, Not me, So there! -- “Peter Pan” the musical, 1954 WAUWATOSA, Wis. -- This state, the first to let...
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America and future warsJun 04, 2012 5:00 am - On Sunday, Sept. 2, 1945, aboard the battleship USS Missouri at the end of ceremonies marking the unconditional surrender of Japan and the formal end of World War II, Ge...
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Joe Biden and the use of empathyJun 03, 2012 5:00 am - What to make of Vice President Joe Biden? Sometimes he is gaffe-prone comic relief. Sometimes he is the possessor of the worst geopolitical judgment in Washington — as w...
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Good dog! Unfortunately, not ‘amazing’ dogJun 03, 2012 5:00 am - “If it bleeds, it leads” was the slogan sarcastically ascribed to a TV station’s story play philosophy. But if it barks, it nets a boatload of viewers, sells a lot of n...
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Romney plays his Trump cardJun 01, 2012 1:09 pm - Donald Trump has said he would be “open” to accepting a Cabinet post if Mitt Romney becomes president. Trump would prefer “a position where I negotiate against some of t...