Opinion Columns
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Real patriots demand clean energyOct 17, 2010 11:00 pm - Those orange fireballs you see in the news are NATO oil tankers exploding along the Khyber Pass. Afghani insurgents regard convoys bringing fuel to American fighters as ...
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Requiem for a school reformerOct 17, 2010 11:00 pm - It is instructive and infuriating that one of the country's top education reformers is out of a job. America's public schools have room for teachers who don't believe ...
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Letters of the law, by Fast Eddie VrdolyakOct 16, 2010 11:00 pm - Letters, including one from Hoffman mayor, praise him
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Your pre-election postmortemOct 16, 2010 11:00 pm - When the election is over, prizes and trophies and hosannas will be issued left and right. But why wait? As a public service, I present an infallibly prescient score car...
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Looney, and that's no debateOct 14, 2010 11:00 pm - OK, I want to make sure I understand. Two years ago, with the nation facing a host of complex and difficult problems, voters put a bunch of thoughtful, well-educated peo...
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Health care debate overrun with hypocrisyOct 13, 2010 11:00 pm - When government tells restaurant owners that they can't let customers smoke on their premises, that's the nanny state. When it fines motorcyclists for not wearing helmet...
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'Inside Job' should lead to a perp walkOct 13, 2010 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- If you haven't been humming tunes from “Les Miserables, you haven't seen “Inside Job, the new documentary about how our economic crisis evolved. The most fo...
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The sound of one hand clappingOct 13, 2010 11:00 pm - I was preparing to applaud the Obama administration and specifically Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano for announcing the deportation of a record number of cr...
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Rob Portman's good timingOct 12, 2010 11:00 pm - CLEVELAND — There is a pattern to the political life of Rob Portman, as he reflected over dinner the other night. It has brought him to the verge of victory in the Ohio ...
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Likability isn't the issue in our election decisionsOct 12, 2010 11:00 pm - “I kind of like him personally, Daily Herald Editor John Lampinen said in the midst of an editorial board discussion of candidates to endorse for election. “Actually, I ...