Opinion Columns
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Dawdling over a natural-born killerMar 15, 2011 12:00 am - On Dec. 21, 1988, Moammar Gaddafi killed Theodora Cohen. That’s one way of putting it. Cohen was one of 259 passengers and crew on Pan Am Flight 103. I remember her for ...
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A hold-your-nose immigration fixMar 15, 2011 12:00 am - A casual observer might welcome Utah's recently approved legislation to grant work permits to illegal immigrants and allow police officers to determine the immigration s...
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Who’s missing in Utah’s immigration dealMar 14, 2011 12:00 am - Someone is missing at the celebration for the Utah Compact on immigration. Who could that be? Latino activists, the Catholic Church, the Mormon Church, the Chamber of C...
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The paradox of Robert GatesMar 14, 2011 12:00 am - A rush of recent events has confirmed long-standing conservative suspicions about Secretary of Defense Robert Gates — causing grumbling, and a call from William Kristol ...
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Obama’s Social Security hoaxMar 12, 2011 11:00 pm - Everyone knows that the U.S. budget is being devoured by entitlements. Everyone also knows that of the Big Three — Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security — Social Securi...
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Time to rethink Arab arms salesMar 11, 2011 11:00 pm - For many years American policy has been to sell modern weaponry to Arab states. The reasons given are to maintain the “balance of power” in the region, but the unstated ...
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The wrong approach against extremismMar 11, 2011 11:00 pm - “There is nothing radical or un-American in holding these hearings,” Republican Rep. Peter King of New York claimed Thursday, as he launched his McCarthyite probe of Ame...
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Let me call him sweetheartMar 11, 2011 11:00 pm - Eulogies for David Broder are still tumbling from the fingertips of friends and fans. He was the dean of political journalists, a man both generous and gracious, a repor...
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Hunting for terrorists, not witchesMar 10, 2011 5:08 am - In Times Square last Sunday, an estimated 1,000 people gathered to protest the March 10 hearings before Rep. Peter King’s Committee on Homeland Security entitled “The Ex...
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Facing new U.S. demographics — togetherMar 10, 2011 1:00 am - “Are whites racially oppressed?” This was the eye-catching headline atop an article CNN.com posted last week about rising anxieties among Caucasians as they approach bec...