Opinion Columns
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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...
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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...