Opinion Columns
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Amid campaign heat, be vigilant to keep your coolJul 26, 2012 5:00 am - Today I want to pick up on a theme the Daily Herald raised a little more than two weeks ago with an editorial titled “Duckworth, Walsh and the politics of gotcha.” In th...
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Gun policy's slippery slopeJul 25, 2012 11:00 pm - Following the Aurora shooting, some gun control supporters began immediately hunting through the wreckage for scraps of political advantage. It showed all the sensitivit...
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Sally Ride's determination changed the worldJul 25, 2012 11:00 pm - Sally Ride did not go into space alone in 1983. She carried with her the hopes and dreams of a generation of women who were trying to escape the bounds of tradition in t...
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Did the state make you great?Jul 25, 2012 1:00 am - “If you’ve got a business — you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.” -- Barack Obama, Roanoke, Va., July 13 And who might that somebody else be? Governmen...
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What the tax returns won’t tell usJul 24, 2012 11:48 am - To paraphrase Rhett Butler, I don’t care if Mitt Romney releases more of his tax returns. I expect to learn nothing from them, aside from the fact that he is very rich a...
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The dark night in all our soulsJul 24, 2012 11:48 am - By now the script should be familiar. A bombing or a mass shooting occurs and the media immediately look for a simple cause. Invariably, they turn to talk radio or some ...
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In memory of a brave and intrepid pioneerJul 23, 2012 11:00 am - Bill Raspberry wore his eminence well. In a city full of preening, self-centered journalistic royalty, he was a warm and generous prince who never deluded himself into t...
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Are some in GOP ready to deal on taxes?Jul 23, 2012 5:00 am - Nowadays, few politicians will stray from party orthodoxy without also taking unfair whacks at the opposition. Sen. Tom Coburn, Republican from Oklahoma, is braver and m...
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The antidote to getting dumberJul 22, 2012 5:00 am - Few instances are more refreshing than the sound of a politician leaving office. This isn’t because we want to see them go, necessarily (though this, too, can be delici...
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Our politics of polarizationJul 20, 2012 5:00 am - As his campaign threw out unsubstantiated charges that Mitt Romney might be guilty of a felony, and then mocked Romney’s off-key singing of “America the Beautiful,” Pres...