Opinion Columns
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Obama must turn his focus to budget issuesJun 17, 2010 11:00 pm - Far be it from me to tell the public relations officials who occupy those West Wing offices as a reward for running one of the best presidential campaigns ever, but ... ...
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Mining Afghanistan's futureJun 17, 2010 11:00 pm - Amid all the dark news from Afghanistan, every now and then a sliver of light slips through the cracks. Afghanistan, it turns out, is rich in minerals. Trillions rich. I...
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On Afghanistan, fast-forwardJun 16, 2010 11:00 pm - Evidently Hamid Karzai did not get the memo on terminology. U.S. military commanders have stopped using the word "operation" to describe the drive, now delayed, against ...
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A year after Cairo, little has changedJun 15, 2010 11:00 pm - One year ago this month, President Obama addressed the "Muslim world" from Cairo, Egypt. Some saw that speech as unnecessary groveling. Critics - and I am among them - t...
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Gulf War syndromeJun 15, 2010 11:00 pm - It's great that President Obama and his advisers finally seem to understand the atmospherics of responding to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Now if they'd only get the po...
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Everyone's a pundit in a Twitter eraJun 14, 2010 11:00 pm - As a newspaperman in what some consider the twilight of the age of print, it feels as if I'm being "punked." In any case, I'm pretty sure that Ashton Kutcher is messing ...
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Blackhawks and Blago facing opposite oddsJun 13, 2010 11:00 pm - LAS VEGAS - When the Blackhawks lost a couple of games during their Stanley Cup Finals series, the oddsmakers here didn't blink an eye. The Hawks were 3-1 favorites agai...
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The myth of Iran's 'isolation'Jun 13, 2010 11:00 pm - In announcing the passage of a U.N. Security Council resolution imposing sanctions on Iran, President Obama stressed not once but twice Iran's increasing "isolation" fro...
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Experience has key role in politicsJun 13, 2010 11:00 pm - Some years ago, the late New York Times and Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist William Safire wrote a great column comparing politicians to plumbers. It was during one of ...
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The great race - stay tunedJun 12, 2010 11:00 pm - An impromptu transcontinental race has begun, with nothing less at stake than the future of the American political and governmental system. It began a few months ago whe...