Opinion Columns
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Loose lips sink generals - and warsJun 24, 2010 11:00 pm - The World War II slogan "Loose lips sink ships," which was intended to encourage Americans to keep quiet about any information pertaining to that war, could also apply t...
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True (or false) feminismJun 24, 2010 11:00 pm - Proving one's feminist bona fides has become the latest challenge for women aspiring to public office. Is she a "real" feminist who walks in lock-step with traditional ...
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Leave nation-building to the AfghansJun 24, 2010 11:00 pm - The good news? Nobody has to pretend anymore that Gen. Stanley McChrystal knew how to fix Afghanistan within a year. The bad news? Now we're supposed to pretend that Gen...
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Careful what you wish for when seeking headlinesJun 23, 2010 11:00 pm - If you want to maintain comfortable relations in your personal and professional life, a good rule of thumb is to imagine how what you are saying would sound in the newsp...
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Obama should give us a clue about who he isJun 23, 2010 11:00 pm - It can seem that at the heart of Barack Obama's foreign policy is no heart at all. It consists instead of a series of challenges - of problems that need fixing, not wron...
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Obama and the vision thingJun 21, 2010 11:00 pm - Barack Obama doesn't do the mundane. He was sent to us to do larger things. You could see that plainly in his Oval Office address on the Gulf oil spill. He could barely ...
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The path to immigration reformJun 20, 2010 11:00 pm - Angry over my criticism of hateful legislative tantrums such as Arizona's new law to ferret out illegal immigrants, some readers have demanded to know my solution to Ame...
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From sea to oily sea: Off with their heads!Jun 20, 2010 11:00 pm - Rod Blagojevich is guilty. So is Jon Burge, accused police torturer. Let's just set up some TV cameras and parade them into the federal lockup right now! And Drew Pete...
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Obama must stick to the deadline in AfghanistanJun 19, 2010 11:00 pm - When he ordered his escalation of the war in Afghanistan, President Obama pledged U.S. troops "will begin to come home" in summer 2011. Discouraging reports from the war...
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Consumed by caution in AfghanistanJun 19, 2010 11:00 pm - Torrents of uninteresting mail inundate members of Congress, but occasionally there are riveting communications, such as a recent e-mail from a noncommissioned officer s...