Opinion Columns
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Choking on ObamacareDec 05, 2011 4:00 am - LOS ANGELES — In 1941, Carl Karcher was a 24-year-old truck driver for a bakery. Impressed by the large numbers of buns he was delivering, he scrounged up $326 to buy a ...
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Private pilots hope to rejuvenate the coolDec 04, 2011 5:45 am - The last time I flew in a small, single-engine plane, my wife was the pilot. Cheryl rented a plane, took off from Midway, flew up the Chicago lakefront, gave me a great ...
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Gingrich’s tightrope walk on immigrationDec 04, 2011 4:00 am - Moments after the last Republican presidential candidate debate ended, the ever-breathless blogosphere started wondering if Newt Gingrich was making a play for the Latin...
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Mitt vs. NewtDec 04, 2011 4:00 am - It’s Iowa minus one month, and barring yet another resurrection, or something of similar improbability, it’s Mitt Romney versus Newt Gingrich. In a match race, here’s th...
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A December to rememberDec 02, 2011 4:00 am - Seventy years ago this month, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and brought America into a war that had begun in Europe in 1939. In his masterful new book “December 194...
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Seeing a changing China from withinDec 02, 2011 4:00 am - BEIJING — Even the briefest acquaintance with this smoggy, sprawling capital is basis enough to conclude that much of the campaign rhetoric we’re hearing about China is ...
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Making one distortion from anotherDec 01, 2011 4:00 am - Mitt Romney’s tough, controversial first television ad — directed at President Obama, not Romney’s primary opponents — could be a preview of the fall election. It also r...
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Editorial cartoon is a savage worth tamingDec 01, 2011 4:00 am - Editorial cartoons are a dicey business. The great Pat Oliphant described them as “inherently negative,” and though many great examples could be summoned to contradict t...
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No profit in a soft spotNov 30, 2011 4:00 am - Mitt Romney runs for president with the eye of a venture capitalist. He sees the profit in certain positions, discards those that are no longer profitable, and moves on....
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Career advice for would-be presidentsNov 30, 2011 4:00 am - Another debate, another episode of “The Dating Game.” Will the winner be contestant No. 1, 2 ... 8? The truth is, everyone has always known who the Republican nominee w...