Opinion Columns
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Bear with me for way to combat coyote problemMar 11, 2010 10:00 pm - At least four down, and who knows how many to go. Wheaton began its coyote culling program this week with the word that a professional trapper the city hired had capture...
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Health care bill this sweet can't really be leanMar 10, 2010 10:00 pm - Skipping through the Candy Land of the health care bill, one is tempted to hum a few bars of "Let Me Call You Sweetheart." What a deal. For deal-makers, that is. Not so...
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Closer look at the 'values' behind a smear campaignMar 09, 2010 10:00 pm - The word "McCarthyism" is overused, but in this case it's mild. Liz Cheney, the former vice president's ambitious daughter, has a list of nine Justice Department lawyers...
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Keep working on draining the swampMar 09, 2010 10:00 pm - Before Rep. Nancy Pelosi became speaker of the House, she promised during the Bush administration that if voters allowed Democrats to regain a congressional majority Dem...
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Turning rage into action in honor of Chelsea KingMar 08, 2010 10:00 pm - Like most in the San Diego area - especially those of us who are parents - I've spent the last week processing the events surrounding the murder of 17-year-old Chelsea K...
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Onward, he said, regardlessMar 07, 2010 10:00 pm - So the yearlong production saw the curtain raised one last time. Obamacare lives. After 34 speeches, three sharp electoral rebukes and a seven-hour seminar, the presiden...
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For Israel, an epithet undeservedMar 07, 2010 10:00 pm - Toward the end of last year, Jimmy Carter apologized for some of his very harsh statements about Israel. In an "open letter to the Jewish community" he airily mentioned ...
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A legal gun, the usual motive, and 3 dead in DarienMar 07, 2010 10:00 pm - The coldblooded Darien killer wasn't so tough that he couldn't shop for a good deal on a murder weapon. The 40-caliber Glock pistol used to kill Jeffrey Kramer, his wife...
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Disappointment watching fall of a no-pretense guyMar 06, 2010 10:00 pm - This is not the way Sandy Levin would have wanted it. The Michigan Democrat became acting chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee after its former chairman, Charl...
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Closer look at gun rights and lawsMar 06, 2010 10:00 pm - It is said that the reasons the Supreme Court gives for doing what it does are as important as what it does. Hence, the interest in the case the Supreme Court considered...