Opinion Columns
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The Reggie in the GOP raceJan 13, 2012 4:00 am - Mitt Romney is starting to get on my nerves. He reminds me of Reggie, the rich, handsome, athletic and effortlessly superficial character in the “Archie” comics. He does...
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Snow job: We’re on top of it, whatever comesJan 12, 2012 4:00 am - Imagine a meeting of editors sitting around a table, most with electronic information devices at hand, as well as at least three newspapers. Here’s how people talk about...
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The GOP’s clash of the nice guysJan 10, 2012 11:00 pm - Iowa front-runners Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum have a little problem. Both are too nice to be mean to each other. Who can throw the first punch in a tight race growin...
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Santorum a worthy challengerJan 10, 2012 11:00 pm - After every other conservative alternative to Mitt Romney crashed and burned (libertarian Ron Paul is in a category of his own), from the rubble emerges Rick Santorum. B...
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Tallying the reality of Obama’s successJan 10, 2012 11:00 pm - In the depths of the Watergate scandal, a persistent theory emerged that President Richard Nixon would cancel the 1972 election. It became so rampant that The Washington...
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A candidate as fringe as fringe can beJan 10, 2012 4:02 am - Before there was the Tea Party to define the phrase “far-right fringe,” there was Rick Santorum. He’s a nice-guy zealot who should never be allowed anywhere near the Ova...
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My brother’s valuable, successful lifeJan 10, 2012 4:02 am - How does one measure whether a life was a success, or a failure? Some would measure it by recognition, that is, how many knew the person’s name. For others, the measure ...
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The unbearable consequence of IowaJan 09, 2012 4:00 am - So Mitt Romney “won” Iowa by eight votes, giving him the “Big Mo” (that’s momentum) as he marches forth into the primaries. What happened to Rick Santorum’s surge? Did a...
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A worthy challenger to RomneyJan 09, 2012 4:00 am - After every other conservative alternative to Mitt Romney crashed and burned (libertarian Ron Paul is in a category of his own), from the rubble emerges Rick Santorum. B...
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The redistributionist behemothJan 08, 2012 5:24 am - Liberals have a rendezvous with regret. Their largest achievement is today’s redistributionist government. But such government is inherently regressive: It tends to dist...