Opinion Columns
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The states as an electoral barometerJul 27, 2010 11:00 pm - In this high-stakes election of 2010, much attention naturally focuses on Republican efforts to come back in Congress and the Democrats' drive to retain their large majo...
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Telling us the obviousJul 27, 2010 11:00 pm - The news in that massive data dump provided by the dauntingly mysterious Wikileaks (who? what?) to one American and two European publications is that there is no news at...
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Living with the folks and holding outJul 26, 2010 11:00 pm - A few years ago, before the current recession took hold, I was speaking to a group of high school students and wound up being given a pop quiz. I assured my audience th...
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Guilty or not, why Rod really was Tony SopranoJul 25, 2010 11:00 pm - Even if he had shown up wearing a cheetah print miniskirt and Parisian stilettos, the former governor of Illinois wouldn't have been as conspicuous in federal court as h...
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Outsourcing governmentJul 25, 2010 11:00 pm - In another country also called America, there were no credit cards and excessive debt was seen as a character flaw. In that America, my grandparents and their parents ha...
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Using race to smear ObamaJul 24, 2010 11:00 pm - After the Shirley Sherrod episode, there's no longer any need to mince words: A cynical right-wing propaganda machine is peddling the poisonous fiction that when African...
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Beware the lame duckJul 24, 2010 11:00 pm - Barack Obama's considerable political capital, earned on Election Day 2008, is spent. Well spent, mind you, on the enactment of a highly ideological agenda of Obamacare,...
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Family secretsJul 24, 2010 11:00 pm - I must have been 12 years old when my mother took me aside to tell me she had been married to another man before my father. I was stunned, shocked and, yes, ashamed. In ...
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Kagan's path to the Supreme Court signifies the changing of timesJul 22, 2010 11:00 pm - Buoyed by a 13-6 vote in the Senate Judiciary Committee, Elena Kagan is on her way to the Supreme Court. The talk in Washington is what the impending elevation of the fo...
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Yes, there's hope for the future: Meet our internsJul 22, 2010 11:00 pm - So, the golf buddies are walking toward their shots, shooting the breeze. One mentions someone's daughter is about to enter college, planning to study journalism. "Oh, r...