Opinion Columns
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The cost of conscienceFeb 05, 2012 4:00 am - Two of the top news stories of the past week have revolved around reproductive rights, though both raise far more troubling issues than a woman’s right to contraception ...
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Romney matches up well against Obama, if ...Feb 03, 2012 4:00 am - The granting of Secret Service protection following Mitt Romney’s decisive Florida victory did not prevent him from immediately shooting himself in the foot. “I’m not co...
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The fear of federal college loansFeb 03, 2012 4:00 am - If you’re not intimately familiar with the terrifying phrase “February is FAFSA time,” then you don’t have college-age kids. Or you’re wealthy enough to be unencumbered ...
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What Romney needs is a limpFeb 02, 2012 4:00 am - When a friend was writing a novel, he was concerned that his protagonist was too perfect. People can’t identify with perfection, he said. For the character to be sympath...
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Sensitivity played a role in this real-life mysteryFeb 01, 2012 11:00 pm - When 12-year-old Tarren Garcia missed his Bull Valley school bus last week but noticed a human skull lying in the grass near the stop, he stumbled into the kind of macab...
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Weakness is an invitation to warFeb 01, 2012 4:00 am - One of the memorable slogans from the Reagan administration was “peace through strength.” Reagan believed a strong defense was a safeguard against enemy attacks and the ...
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The GOP’s assault on GingrichJan 31, 2012 4:00 am - When the empire strikes back, it hits hard. The Republican establishment is deploying every weapon and every soldier — even Bob Dole — in an increasingly desperate attem...
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Onward civilian soldiersJan 31, 2012 4:00 am - War, said James Madison, is “the true nurse of executive aggrandizement.” Randolph Bourne, the radical essayist killed by the influenza unleashed by World War I, warned,...
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Florida’s Latino vote is up for grabsJan 31, 2012 4:00 am - All eyes are on Florida because it’s the first primary where Latino voters can have a significant impact on the presidential contest. Expect it to offer meaningful predi...
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I want my planet backJan 30, 2012 4:00 am - Florida is the state that put the first man on the moon, NBC’s Brian Williams noted at the Republican presidential debate in Tampa. He asked the candidates, “At a time w...