Opinion Columns
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The GOP racing form, 2012Apr 24, 2011 12:00 am - Unified Field Theory of 2012, Axiom One: The more the Republicans can make the 2012 election like 2010, the better their chances of winning. The 2010 Democratic shellac...
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Providing a field manual for despotsApr 24, 2011 12:00 am - If I were a Middle Eastern despot, I’d know how to handle the pro-democracy movement that threatens my rule: Crack down viciously, using deadly force against civilians, ...
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We’re lucky to meet Naperville’s Jordan SchubertApr 21, 2011 12:00 am - Have I ever shared my philosophy on golf and journalism? Perhaps I have, but it bears repeating: Better to be lucky than good. Initially, I applied that theory to today’...
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Caring enough to broadcast the very bestApr 21, 2011 12:00 am - Growing up, “Hallmark Hall of Fame” represented the gold standard of what we would call today “family values” television, except that TV then rarely carried anything thr...
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Low marks on immigrationApr 21, 2011 12:00 am - While headlines distract us with the latest battles in various states over immigration, we should be checking in with what’s going on at the federal level. And what bett...
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Inspection season in IowaApr 21, 2011 12:00 am - DES MOINES, Iowa — This state, about 10 months from its caucuses, is a flat, fertile, friendly political vacuum. The Republican candidates who finished first and second ...
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America's not a Third World country — yetApr 21, 2011 12:00 am - Let's start with the assumption that America is not a Third World country. In poor countries, many people never see doctors. Only the elite go to college. Rattletrap tra...
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Trump may be a 2012 force to reckon withApr 19, 2011 12:00 am - Back in 1990, Ivana Trump told her divorce lawyer Michael Kennedy that “from time to time, her husband (Donald Trump) reads a book of Hitler’s collected speeches, ‘My Ne...
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Voice of a conservative populistApr 19, 2011 12:00 am - KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The morning Tom Hoenig, president of the Federal Reserve’s regional bank here, announced that he would retire Oct. 1, newspapers nationwide reported t...
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Tax reform’s role in reducing the debtApr 18, 2011 11:00 pm - The most serious charge against Rep. Paul Ryan’s budget is not the risible claim, made most prominently by President Obama in his George Washington University address, t...