Opinion Columns
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GOP’s murky rhetoric on national defenseFeb 10, 2012 4:00 am - Through 11 presidential elections, beginning with the Democrats’ nomination of George McGovern in 1972, Republicans have enjoyed a presumption of superiority regarding n...
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Chasing equalityFeb 10, 2012 4:00 am - Tuesday’s ruling by a panel of three judges of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit holding unconstitutional the California ballot initiative that ai...
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On Lech Walesa Day in Illinois, follow example of freedomFeb 09, 2012 4:00 am - “We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.” -- Lech Walesa, former president of Poland, founder of Solidarity, 1983 No...
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GOP must fight the fudge with real numbersFeb 09, 2012 4:00 am - The Obama administration is touting the latest unemployment numbers released last week by the U.S. Department of Labor as proof its policies are working. But a closer lo...
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What Komen affair means for NovemberFeb 08, 2012 4:00 am - The blowup at Susan G. Komen for the Cure set off a political alarm that Republicans dare not ignore. The leading breast cancer group, Komen tried playing Republican-bas...
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Obama’s assault on the poorFeb 08, 2012 4:00 am - Some issues fade; others fester. The Obama administration’s contraceptive mandate on religious charities, hospitals and universities is the festering kind. The initial r...
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Romney’s indifference to the poorFeb 07, 2012 4:00 am - I wish Mitt Romney’s cavalier dismissal of poverty in America could be chalked up as just another gaffe, but it’s much worse than that. The Republican front-runner seems...
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Syria: It’s not just about freedomFeb 07, 2012 4:00 am - Imperial regimes can crack when they are driven out of their major foreign outposts. The fall of the Berlin Wall did not just signal the liberation of Eastern Europe fro...
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Primary purposesFeb 06, 2012 4:00 am - If the goal of the primary process is simply to nominate a candidate, essentially to nominate the man or woman most likely to win in the end, then this primary season sh...
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Bailing an ocean with a thimbleFeb 05, 2012 4:00 am - The worst day of Sugar Bear’s 55 years was one of the days — there have been many of them — when he got out of prison. In the early 1990s, in a prison where persons whos...