Opinion Columns
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Farewell, honored prophetMar 08, 2012 12:00 am - The most accomplished social scientist of the last half-century would occasionally visit his friend and Harvard colleague Pat Moynihan at the White House when Moynihan w...
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What Limbaugh is really aboutMar 08, 2012 12:00 am - Too bad the Republican candidates had to comment on Rush Limbaugh’s flaming attack on a female law student at Georgetown University. El Rushbo plays troubadour to the pa...
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Blog item: That jerk in the other carMar 07, 2012 12:00 am - My husband has started teaching our oldest son the rules of the road in anticipation of his getting behind the wheel. A few weeks ago, I heard my husband tell the impres...
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The passing of a bomb-throwerMar 07, 2012 12:00 am - It is not nice to speak ill of the dead, my mother once told me. But it is OK, I think, to speak ill of those who praise the dead when the deceased was best known for sl...
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Just show us respectMar 06, 2012 4:00 am - Time magazine’s March 5 edition is barrier-breaking, according to Richard Stengel, the managing editor. In his “Editor’s Desk” letter to readers he wrote, “For the first...
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Tax the rich ... firstMar 06, 2012 4:00 am - We who’ve been going on and on about the need to raise taxes on the rich need to catch our breath. There’s no need to reverse course, but also no obligation to totally l...
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Farewell, honored prophetMar 06, 2012 4:00 am - The most accomplished social scientist of the last half-century would occasionally visit his friend and Harvard colleague Pat Moynihan at the White House when Moynihan w...
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Romney’s luckMar 06, 2012 4:00 am - It’s been a wild ride, but the storyline of the Republican race remains remarkably simple and constant: It’s Mitt Romney and the perishable pretenders. Five have come a...
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Romney becomes poison pill for RepublicansMar 04, 2012 5:06 am - Who’da thunk it? Mitt Romney, who walked away with Michigan even as he was losing the nomination four years ago, barely surviving the Michigan primary this time? Much le...
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Winfield turmoil latest in a history of suburban feudsMar 04, 2012 5:00 am - I am sure the presence of a Daily Herald photographer and reporter had no bearing on how the members of the Winfield village board behaved Thursday night. Compared to so...