Opinion Columns
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Trouble, by the numbersOct 03, 2010 11:00 pm - Sometimes the most important clues are hiding in plain view. That was the case in late June, when the Gallup Organization reported that the share of voters who describe ...
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Revisionist history about the Tylenol murdersOct 03, 2010 11:00 pm - "There was never a Tylenol Killer." That was the first sentence of an e-mail sent to me by James W. Lewis, the only person ever found guilty of a crime connected to the ...
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Yes, the Swedish ModelOct 02, 2010 11:00 pm - Swedish voters have re-elected their center-right prime minister, and that has caused rejoicing among my right-wing colleagues. "Sweden votes for tax cuts, privatization...
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Mixed messages on AfghanistanOct 02, 2010 11:00 pm - From the beginning, the call to arms was highly uncertain. On Dec. 1, 2009, Commander In Chief Barack Obama orders 30,000 more Americans into battle in Afghanistan. But ...
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'Convicted?' and other key questions for candidatesSep 30, 2010 11:00 pm - The letter, from a regular contributor to our Fence Post column, provided some encouragement and some gentle prodding. In it, writer Edna Heatherington of Glen Ellyn not...
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Rules and regs, cities and small townsSep 30, 2010 11:00 pm - After living in New York City for a few weeks, I've reached a few conclusions about the great political divide in America. As Barack Obama told us at the Democratic con...
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Why Superman has left the school buildingSep 30, 2010 11:00 pm - "Waiting for Superman" is the new film by documentary filmmaker Davis Guggenheim, director of "An Inconvenient Truth," and it should be mandatory viewing for every membe...
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What about California's Meg?Sep 29, 2010 11:00 pm - This is supposed to be the year of the (Republican) woman. It is most certainly the year of millionaire business execs no one ever heard of a month or two ago giving Dem...
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Immigration debate no laughing matterSep 29, 2010 11:00 pm - There's a great scene at the end of the film "And Justice for All" where idealistic attorney Arthur Kirkland, played by Al Pacino, uses his opening statement to tell the...
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Poor immigrants an asset or burden?Sep 28, 2010 11:00 pm - America's fast-growing Latino population is famously hard working. It also has high rates for teenage pregnancy and dropping out of high school, two markers for poverty....