Opinion Columns
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Friendship takes step toward an awesome futureSep 15, 2011 5:00 am - In 1994, I attended a journalism workshop devoted to an exciting view of the future of newspapers. Then-Knight Ridder newspaper designer Roger Fidler and a small staff o...
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Waste that’s all in the (federal) familySep 15, 2011 5:00 am - In societies governed by persuasion, politics is mostly talk, so liberals’ impoverishment of their vocabulary matters. Having damaged liberalism’s reputation, they call ...
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A lot is slipping backward for IsraelSep 14, 2011 5:00 am - Back in 1953, an Egyptian army officer was asked by the magazine Al-Musawwar what he would write to Hitler if he were still alive. “My Dear Hitler,” he began gushingly, ...
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Too rich, too poor, too badSep 14, 2011 5:00 am - Joblessness, the general economic malaise and a never-ending stream of depressing statistics -- the number of people in poverty, the millions of dollars that corporate C...
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In praise of wider security perimeterSep 13, 2011 5:00 am - For me, 9/11 will always dawn bright, still and routine, and end in confusion, helplessness and strange anticipation. The ugly gash was also a dividing line. Those o...
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GOP puts election ahead of consensusSep 13, 2011 5:00 am - “Jobs Plan Tanks,” screamed the Drudge Report the morning after the president’s much anticipated jobs speech. The headline linked to reports of the drops on the various ...
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The 9/11 ‘overreaction”? Nonsense.Sep 12, 2011 12:00 am - The new conventional wisdom on 9/11: We have created a decade of fear. We overreacted to 9/11 — al-Qaida turned out to be a paper tiger; there never was a second attack ...
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Recognize that it’s overSep 12, 2011 12:00 am - The war our enemies began on Sept. 11, 2001, is long over. Perhaps now, after 10 years of anxiety and self-doubt, we can acknowledge our victory and begin the postwar re...
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9/11, Ryans' tragedies help us keep perspectiveSep 10, 2011 8:00 am - Perspective. The word has been on my mind a lot this week as I've been a part of our coverage of the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and other poignan...
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A ruling’s valuable rehabilitationSep 09, 2011 5:00 am - Liberal certitudes continue to dissolve, the most recent solvent being a robust new defense of a 1905 Supreme Court decision that liberals have long reviled — and misrep...