Opinion Columns
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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....
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Striking out on settlementsSep 28, 2010 11:00 pm - Every so often, the sayings of Casey Stengel come to mind. The longtime manager of the New York Yankees, accustomed to a Prussian professionalism in the hitting and fiel...
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The Republican philosophySep 27, 2010 11:00 pm - All public policy is founded on an underlying philosophy about humanity and the world. Some call it a "worldview," but whatever it is called, everything government does ...
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Each mountain before us offers a lesson to bring homeSep 26, 2010 11:00 pm - Everyone has a mountain to climb. Some are blessed to able to choose their mountain, from majestic names such as Everest and McKinley. For others, the mountain is chose...
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Behind the White House curtainSep 26, 2010 11:00 pm - Question of the day: Why do presidents give the White House keys to Bob Woodward? I ask this with all due deference, respect, hat in hand, cape over puddle and other su...
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Where good men (and women) die oldSep 26, 2010 11:00 pm - There are few less-alike places in the continental United States than Ashley, N.D., and New York City. But Ashley (population 882) has one remarkable thing in common wit...
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Fixing the primary electionSep 25, 2010 11:00 pm - Although a Niagara of vitriol is drenching politics, the two parties are acting sensibly and in tandem about something once considered a matter of constitutional signifi...
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Waking up to DREAM Act realitiesSep 25, 2010 11:00 pm - Why did Congress suddenly turn out the lights on the DREAM Act? A lot of Latinos would really like to know because they're trying to figure out who's to blame. The answ...
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Academic freedom: the Obama editionSep 23, 2010 11:00 pm - Raise your hand if you believe government has too little involvement in our lives. Put down your hands, members of the Obama administration. During a previous political ...
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Growing impatient for a real recoverySep 23, 2010 11:00 pm - Good news. The folks in charge of such things announced that the recession is over. Actually, it's been over for some time. It officially ended in June 2009, according t...