Opinion Columns
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Foggy thinking in the Sunshine StateMar 30, 2011 11:00 pm - FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — You'd think that a state knocked cold by the real-estate meltdown would invest in a future not based on housing bubbles. And that if the feds dan...
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Step up to the plate: A quizMar 30, 2011 12:00 am - A wit once said, “Finish last in your league and they call you Idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you Doctor.” Pass this baseball quiz and they will call...
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Different ways of remembering that politics is localMar 30, 2011 12:00 am - Some cleanup issues on the elections: We completed our schedule of endorsements a week and a half ago, considerably earlier than previous elections. We wanted to time ou...
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The human cost of apathyMar 29, 2011 12:00 am - In 1938, President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposed an international conference at Evian-les-Bains, France, to deal with the urgent problem of Jewish refugees from Nazi Ge...
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Aim geostrategic shift in our favorMar 29, 2011 12:00 am - If there were an award for stating the obvious when it comes to the Middle East it would go to The New York Times. On its front page last Friday, the newspaper ran a sto...
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Praise for (some) tea partyersMar 29, 2011 12:00 am - When it comes to my sanity, the tea party often taketh away. I go nuts when they throw out huge sums to cut from budgets without getting into details. Ditto when they ba...
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The power of one cowMar 29, 2011 12:00 am - KUDEMELA, Malawi — Donata Kuchawo’s cow pen is as clean as a well-tended garden. She has only one cow, but she owes it a great deal. The animal divides her life into ch...
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Ignoring the useful tyrantsMar 28, 2011 11:00 pm - Anyone looking for principle and logic in the attack on Moammar Gadhafi’s tyrannical regime will be disappointed. President Obama and his advisers should acknowledge the...
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War No. 3 and Obama’s muddled policyMar 28, 2011 11:00 pm - Libya’s recently resigned ambassador to the U.S., Ali Aujali, is optimistic about the outcome of the bombing of his country. He tells me he thinks dictator Moammar Gadha...
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Opening doors was the way of this fighterMar 28, 2011 12:00 am - We became friends long after we had known each other as candidate and journalist. Long after the grit that Geraldine Ferraro showed facing down press and politicians had...