Opinion Columns
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What will GOP do about Sarah?Nov 13, 2010 10:00 pm - NEW YORK — Despite its considerable gains in the midterm elections, the GOP has a problem looming in the margins named Sarah Palin. She who can rouse the base like none ...
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1940s injustice worth recounting todayNov 13, 2010 10:00 pm - SAN DIEGO — ”The whites wouldn't like it ... “ Those are the words that were offered up, in 1949, by a funeral director in Three Rivers, Texas a small town about 70 mi...
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Cheese subsidies and more are full of holesNov 12, 2010 10:00 pm - How interesting that one arm of the Agriculture Department is promoting sales of cheese as another urges the public to eat less of it for health reasons. Your tax dollar...
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Obama's transformative electionNov 12, 2010 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- As he promised it would be, Barack Obama's presidency has been transformative, but not as he intended. Whether it lasts two or six more years, it is an ex...
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A great idea from our correspondent in AfghanistanNov 10, 2010 10:00 pm - It was a tongue-in-cheek exchange among members of our editorial board. One suggested an editorial on the topic of veterans to run Thursday, Veterans Day. But he lacked ...
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Wanted: Mojo all around in WashingtonNov 10, 2010 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- Last week, voters made a powerful statement about leadership: They'd like some, please. So far, there's no evidence that either President Obama or the top ...
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Pure objectivity impossible, but still a good goalNov 09, 2010 10:00 pm - One question leapt to mind as I reviewed the Illinois Campaign for Political Reform's list of top contributors to the state governor's campaign. I don't care how rich he...
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Hispanics' gains suggest GOP 'on the right track'Nov 08, 2010 10:00 pm - SAN DIEGO -- The midterm election was a watershed event for what is usually a lonely group of dissidents. These are people who belong to two distinct communities that a...
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Boehner, GOP sick with chronic irrationalityNov 08, 2010 10:00 pm - With a John Boehner speakership fast approaching, I dutifully read up on the man. I learned he is a Midwestern fellow, one of 12 siblings and a man whose early career wa...
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Indonesia trip is good foreign policyNov 08, 2010 10:00 pm - Barack Hussein Obama, the mixed-race president born in Hawaii, partly educated in Indonesia defender of a controversial Islamic center near ground zero in Manhattan is...