Opinion Columns
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The death of a principled moderateAug 12, 2011 4:00 am - Mark Hatfield, 89, who died last weekend in his native Oregon, was the first Christian politician I recall meeting in Washington, which is to say he did more than keep a...
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Economic stress across the pondAug 11, 2011 12:00 am - LONDON — The chancellor of the exchequer has a dry, sly sense of humor. George Osborne, 40, says Britain escaped the sort of housing bubble and crash that staggered Amer...
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Finding a way to energize your insect war storiesAug 11, 2011 12:00 am - Today, I want to talk about mosquitoes. I could talk about financial reporting, but you’re depressed enough. So, I’m back to mosquitoes. But I just don’t know what to sa...
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Mr. Cool turns coldAug 10, 2011 3:00 am - In her autobiography, Helen Gahagan Douglas recalled telling President Franklin D. Roosevelt about her visits to the camps of migrant workers. She was especially poignan...
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When cuts make the vulnerable even more soAug 10, 2011 3:00 am - With varied motivations, human beings tend to invoke the name of God in foxholes, in the throes of passion and in budget debates. During the recent debt-limit showdown,...
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Principled foolishness in CongressAug 09, 2011 4:00 am - Actually, no, Mr. Vice President, the tea party gang wasn’t “acting like terrorists.” They were acting like kidnappers. Let’s get our insults correct. They weren’t infl...
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A Latino identity crisisAug 09, 2011 4:00 am - The melting pot that fuses the unique characteristics of newcomers from all over the world into a diverse America seems to be cooling — at least when it comes to Latinos...
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Debt agreement ‘solved’ the wrong problemAug 08, 2011 12:00 am - The debt-ceiling fight generated enough hyperventilation and heartburn to replace a coal-fired power plant. The resulting product? It’s starting to look kind of puny and...
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Three stages to U.S. budget solutionAug 08, 2011 12:00 am - Conventional wisdom holds that the congressional super-committee established by the debt-ceiling deal to propose further deficit reduction will go nowhere. I’m not so su...
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Lisle hearing defines cross-examinationAug 07, 2011 12:00 am - The following exchange occurred when a Lisle resident cross-examined the chief operating officer of a company that wants to put a bus yard in a big unused parking lot. “...