Opinion Columns
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Obama has little to fear about 2012Mar 05, 2011 11:00 pm - For all their bluster about making Barack Obama a one-term president, Republicans are assembling what looks like a remarkably weak field of candidates for the 2012 elect...
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The GOP's weirdness factionMar 05, 2011 11:00 pm - If pessimism is not creeping on little cat's feet into Republicans' thinking about their 2012 presidential prospects, that is another reason for pessimism. This is becau...
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Candidate session: What you say here won't stay hereMar 02, 2011 11:00 pm - Actual excerpts of e-mail discussion among Daily Herald staffers. Names redacted to protect the guilty and to avoid getting ahead of the story. Editor 1: “As several of ...
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In praise of leaders with backboneMar 02, 2011 11:00 pm - Who put the hot sauce in the Republican governors' oatmeal? And where do we get more of it? In Wisconsin, Gov. Scott Walker is winning fans and making waves — as good le...
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The three other people boosting Mideast democracyMar 01, 2011 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON — It is the conservative critique of the freedom agenda that democratic transformations are hopeless or dangerous in societies lacking democratic cultures...
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No matter who's to blame, it's the kids who will payMar 01, 2011 11:00 pm - The public school teachers in Wisconsin are not responsible for the credit collapse, the national unemployment rate, the fall of the industrial sector or the fiscal cris...
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The government’s price on our headsFeb 28, 2011 11:00 pm - Back in the American Wild West, federal and state governments often put a price on the heads of infamous outlaws like Billy the Kid, Jesse James, Sam Bass, Belle Star an...
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A left wing in need of an updateFeb 28, 2011 11:00 pm - Though I deem myself a sort-of liberal, I don’t closely read the left-wing magazine The Nation. Its views don’t budge for decades at a time, so one can get by just c...
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Rubicon: A river in WisconsinFeb 27, 2011 11:00 pm - The magnificent turmoil now gripping statehouses in Wisconsin, Ohio, Indiana and soon others marks an epic political moment. The nation faces a fiscal crisis of historic...
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Deflating the anti-SemitesFeb 27, 2011 11:00 pm - During World War II, the leader of the Palestinians lived in a Berlin villa, a gift from a very grateful Adolf Hitler, who clearly got his money’s worth. Haj Amin al-Hus...