Opinion Columns
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Closing young Americans’ mindsApr 08, 2012 5:00 am - Let me apologize for the language I’m about to employ in this column. It’s not every day that I feel so strongly about something that I have to use so many controversial...
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Romney veep pick? A heavy hitterApr 07, 2012 4:14 pm - Barack Obama’s intellectual sociopathy — his often breezy and sometimes loutish indifference to truth — should no longer startle. It should, however, influence Mitt Romn...
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Talk with the Editor: Nellie Fox, Ozzie Guillen and my friend RussApr 06, 2012 11:18 am - Today, I am going to share with you some of my hidden biases. Wednesday night, when the Miami Marlins opened their new ballpark against the St. Louis Cardinals, I rooted...
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Obama vs. the nation’s highest courtApr 05, 2012 2:50 pm - ”I’m confident that the Supreme Court will not take what would be an unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a dem...
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He’ll still be the Mitt we knowApr 05, 2012 2:40 pm - The problem for Mitt Romney, assuming he eventually wins the GOP nomination, is that a general election campaign isn’t really like an Etch a Sketch. Alas, traces from th...
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The drug legalization dilemmaApr 05, 2012 5:00 am - The human nervous system interacts in pleasing and addictive ways with certain molecules derived from some plants, which is why humans may have developed beer before the...
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Is this evidence of political agenda?Apr 05, 2012 5:00 am - Yes, I know you see two pictures of U.S. Rep. Joe Walsh with this page, but this is not a column about him. The photos are attached to illustrate another issue. After ea...
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All can agree on the value of curesApr 04, 2012 1:00 am - The debate isn’t new, but as the country awaits the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision on the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, commonly ca...
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A lesson we fail to learnApr 04, 2012 1:00 am - We are coming up on a melancholy anniversary. On April 5, 1992, Suada Dilberovic and Olga Sucic were shot and killed. They were attending a peace rally in Sarajevo when ...
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Does Romney Have a Home?Apr 03, 2012 5:00 am - Mitt Romney has three houses. The former Massachusetts governor would like to do a $12 million “fix-up” on one of them, a beachfront property in La Jolla, Calif. The pla...