Opinion Columns
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All hired help is deserving of decencyOct 03, 2010 11:00 pm - Here we go again. Meg Whitman says she had no idea that she was employing an illegal immigrant for nine years and fired Nikki Diaz Santillan as soon as she found out. P...
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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...