Opinion Columns
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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...
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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...