Opinion Columns
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Ron Paul as spoiler?Dec 11, 2011 4:00 am - On Oct. 12, 1948, the campaign train of Tom Dewey, Republican nominee against President Harry Truman, pulled into Beaucoup, Ill., where, from the rear platform, he would...
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What’s wrong about adulteryDec 09, 2011 4:00 am - We live in a bipolar culture. We allow ourselves to be drenched in sexual images in movies, on television and on the Internet and then defend First Amendment protection ...
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If it’s on paper, it’s more foreverDec 08, 2011 4:00 am - How many of you want your holiday greetings to arrive in the form of thick paper cards delivered by the United States Postal Service? Now, how many prefer your cheery wi...
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Blagojevich, Santo and other inscrutable questionsDec 08, 2011 4:00 am - An array of short subjects today: Ÿ First, one of the sorriest, if not saddest comments I've heard related to the Blagojevich sentencing, from executive editor Madeleine...
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Institutionalized stupidityDec 07, 2011 8:00 am - What happens when adults live in a world drenched in sexual innuendo, double-entendre and sexually provocative media images? Children are inadvertently sexualized and be...
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President’s good fortune is piling upDec 07, 2011 7:00 am - It is said that when Napoleon was asked what qualities he looked for in his generals, he responded, “Just one — that they be lucky.” This is a quality President Obama ha...
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The shattering of EuropeDec 07, 2011 7:00 am - It is said in Europe that only one politician now stands between President Obama and re-election: Angela Merkel. This may overstate Obama’s electoral strength, but it ap...
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The surging NewtDec 06, 2011 4:00 am - Things sure do change fast around here. One week was Rick Perry, the next was Herman Cain. Now it’s ... Newt Gingrich? The Republican voter is like a starving man at a ...
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The two faces of ChinaDec 06, 2011 4:00 am - BEIJING — Don’t hold your breath waiting for any kind of Occupy Beijing movement to set up camp. Visitors to Tiananmen Square must pass through airport-style security ch...
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UnOccupying L.A.Dec 05, 2011 4:00 am - Los Angeles is no longer occupied. After two months of Tent City across from city hall, the LAPD finally moved in after midnight on Wednesday to disperse those who remai...