Opinion Columns
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The worthwhile risk of taking a discomforting callAug 02, 2012 5:00 am - You never know in this job who you’re going to be talking to when you pick up the telephone, caller ID or no caller ID. It may be a cantankerous old curmudgeon, angry be...
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Busted: Mr. Pfeiffer and the White House BlogAug 01, 2012 5:00 am - Shortly after 9/11, President George W. Bush received from Prime Minister Tony Blair a bust of Winston Churchill as an expression of British-American solidarity. Bush ga...
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The right’s blind eye on government spendingAug 01, 2012 5:00 am - My boyhood friend Jack became a doctor -- and a conservative. He had gone to public schools, attended college with the help of a government scholarship, went to medical ...
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Suppose Michele Bachmann is right about Islamic infiltrationJul 30, 2012 11:35 am - Like the ghosts of Shakespeare’s Banquo or Dickens’ Jacob Marley, the specter of the late commie-hunting congressman from Wisconsin, Joseph McCarthy, will always be with...
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Leviathan on a government fishing expeditionJul 30, 2012 11:34 am - SAN FRANCISCO — The huge humpback whale whose friendliness precipitated a surreal seven-year — so far — federal hunt for criminality surely did not feel put upon. Nevert...
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Where Is Baltimore?Jul 30, 2012 5:00 am - I did something so unusual last week as to trigger the “fraud” section at my credit card company to freeze my account. No, I didn't walk into a Tiffany's somewhere and t...
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Trust and online journalismJul 30, 2012 5:00 am - Years ago, I gave Arianna Huffington her start as a syndicated columnist, and recently, her website got my brother condemned by quoting him out of context. That is an am...
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Romney -- not innocents -- abroadJul 29, 2012 5:00 am - A generation ago, it was the three I’s. A presidential challenger’s obligatory foreign trip meant Ireland, Italy and Israel. Mitt Romney’s itinerary is slightly differen...
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Badger Cottage versus Toad HallJul 26, 2012 10:14 am - Sometimes you need children to set you straight. They are so attuned to what they like and what feels good. The status-value of things doesn’t register as much as with a...
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Splitting hairs in a Texas raceJul 26, 2012 10:14 am - The men are so near to each other in all their convictions and theories of life that nothing is left to them but personal competition for the doing of the thing that is ...