Opinion Columns
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The dual duty of informing and engaging votersFeb 16, 2012 8:00 am - As every election approaches, Daily Herald editors and reporters conduct editorial board interviews with as many candidates as we can get to meet with us for local, regi...
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A religious war out of thin airFeb 15, 2012 11:00 pm - At ease, Christian soldiers. There is no “war on religion,” no assault on the Catholic Church. A faith that has endured for thousands of years will survive even Nicki Mi...
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Losing libertyFeb 15, 2012 5:00 am - “Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God?” -- Thomas Jefferson “The Constitution is not an ins...
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Playing the anti-American cardFeb 14, 2012 4:00 am - Recent provocations by Egypt are both serious and mysterious. In December, its government conducted a series of armed raids on respected human rights and democracy orga...
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Obama in denial about American influenceFeb 14, 2012 4:00 am - The usually reliable sources tell us that President Obama picked up a recent edition of the highly reliable New Republic and came away impressed. He read a lengthy essay...
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Big Brother is ‘sharing’Feb 14, 2012 4:00 am - My, how you’ve changed, Big Brother. What happened to the sourpuss in “1984,” George Orwell’s grim novel about a thought-controlled future? Gone are the piercing eyes an...
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The power of losingFeb 13, 2012 4:00 am - Mitt Romney’s recent losses to Rick Santorum in Colorado, Missouri and Minnesota revealed a truism that Romney might want to study — but not too much! Parting with one’...
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Gutting the DREAM ActFeb 13, 2012 4:00 am - During one of the Republican debates in Florida, Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney agreed that the only way they’d support the DREAM Act is to take out the educational compo...
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Romney’s overriding ambitionFeb 11, 2012 11:00 pm - Criticism of Mitt Romney for lacking a coherent message is grossly unfair. He has been forthright, consistent and even eloquent in pressing home his campaign’s central t...
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The gospel according to ObamaFeb 11, 2012 11:00 pm - At the National Prayer Breakfast last week, seeking theological underpinning for his drive to raise taxes on the rich, President Obama invoked the highest possible autho...