Opinion Columns
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Waiting for the GOP’s loveNov 29, 2011 5:00 am - Moderator Wolf Blitzer opened last week’s Republican debate by introducing himself and adding, for some reason, “Yes, that’s my real name.” A few moments later, the part...
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Mail it in, privatelyNov 29, 2011 5:00 am - The Jacksonian-era movement to keep the Sabbath pure deplored Sunday mail delivery. Said one Evangelical: “We have always viewed it as a national evil of great magnitude...
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Heard any good books lately?Nov 28, 2011 4:00 am - I read voraciously. Two local and two national newspapers cover-to-cover and dozens of websites daily, most of what my Twitter timeline feeds me, and stacks of weekly an...
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The Norquist mythNov 28, 2011 4:00 am - Democrats are unanimous in charging that the debt-reduction supercommittee collapsed because Republicans refused to raise taxes. Apparently, Republicans are in the thral...
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Holidays: A test to see if your glass is half fullNov 27, 2011 4:00 am - The holidays, if you ask me, are when one is really tested by the timeworn question: Is your glass half full or half empty? The day before Thanksgiving, I’ll admit, I wa...
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Thankfulness and the Occupy movementNov 24, 2011 5:00 am - For more than half my life I was a 99-percenter. I kept my first pay stubs in the news business to remind me where I came from and what was necessary in order to get whe...
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2011’s tasty leftoversNov 24, 2011 5:00 am - “People who live in a Golden Age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.” — Randall Jarrell, “A Sad Heart at the Supermarket” This is not a Golden A...
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Dirty jobs don’t have to be lousy jobsNov 24, 2011 4:00 am - “Why Americans Won’t Do Dirty Jobs” is the presumptuous headline on a Bloomberg BusinessWeek cover. The subject is Alabama’s new no-tolerance policy toward illegal immig...
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Ignorance isn’t blissNov 24, 2011 4:00 am - The headline on Democratic strategist Paul Begala’s recent Newsweek essay dodged subtlety: “The Stupid Party.” “Republicans used to admire intelligence. But now they’re...
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Some ‘things as they are’ are also ‘as they ought to be’Nov 23, 2011 11:00 pm - In his “Devil’s Dictionary,” 19th century American author Ambrose Bierce described a “cynic” as “a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ou...