Opinion Columns
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Small gestures of good, bad leave lasting marks on kidsJan 30, 2011 11:00 pm - A smart kid with good grades, Michael Spivak came from a supportive family and had just celebrated a successful bar mitzvah that ushered him into manhood. But he still w...
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'2nd adolescence' of baby boomers placed on holdJan 30, 2011 10:00 pm - A few years ago, baby boomers needed 3-D glasses to take in the gorgeous vision of their decades to come. Books and articles foresaw baby boomers skipping off into a “se...
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It's just too easy to blame it on BarackJan 29, 2011 11:00 pm - You have to hand it to Rep. Michele Bachmann, who was the official tea party responder to the president's State of the Union address. No phony sincerity from her. No mov...
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Missing a tax reform movementJan 29, 2011 11:00 pm - While I was out ill for six weeks in December and January, the world changed. Before that, the White House had badly misjudged the political climate. When I went to Ohio...
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The mystique of the word exceptionalismJan 28, 2011 11:00 pm - He didn't say it. That word: “exceptional.” Barack Obama described an exceptional nation in his State of the Union address, but he studiously avoided using the word cons...
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The curse of good intentionsJan 26, 2011 11:00 pm - When the subject is race or ethnicity, conservatives usually flunk the course. Their modus operandi is to use minorities as foils, all to get the votes of white people. ...
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Speech no cover for true Obama agendaJan 26, 2011 11:00 pm - In his State of the Union address, President Obama at times sounded like he was channeling Ronald Reagan: cutting the deficit, hailing private enterprise and individual ...
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GOP pledge is looking more like a fantasyJan 26, 2011 11:00 pm - Despite what you might have heard, the coming battle on Capitol Hill is not really about “government spending” in the abstract. It's about two radically different vision...
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Symbiosis between press, sports is not always comfortableJan 25, 2011 11:00 pm - By Jim Slusher Among many other things related to Jay Cutler’s knee, Chicago Bears General Manager Jerry Angelo talked Monday about the media. “You have got jobs to do. ...
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Education's single goal post theoryJan 25, 2011 10:00 pm - “Since 1995 the average mathematics score for fourth-graders jumped 11 points. At this rate we catch up with Singapore in a little over 80 years ... assuming they don't ...