Opinion Columns
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Who is Rashad Hussain?Feb 18, 2010 10:00 pm - President Obama's appointment of Rashad Hussain, his deputy associate counsel, as special envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), the second largest i...
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The straw that broke Bayh's tenureFeb 17, 2010 10:00 pm - The last time Sen. Evan Bayh was the subject of this column was back in October, when he organized a letter from 10 moderate Democrats informing Majority Leader Harry Re...
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Even cosmopolitan suburbs respond to call of the wildFeb 17, 2010 10:00 pm - Sooner or later, every reporter will have an oddity from the animal kingdom somewhere in his or her portfolio. Mine was a cat nursing three baby rabbits along with her o...
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The dependency agendaFeb 17, 2010 10:00 pm - Only two things are infinite - the expanding universe and Democrats' hostility to the District of Columbia's school choice program. Killing this small program, which cur...
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Poll results: warnings aheadFeb 16, 2010 10:00 pm - There are warning signs to both parties in the latest Washington Post-ABC News poll, and this should be a help as President Obama tries to spur a rebirth of bipartisansh...
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Plagiarizing warFeb 15, 2010 10:00 pm - Plagiarism, as defined by dictionary.com, is "the unauthorized use or close imitation of the language and thoughts of another author and the representation of them as on...
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Latest poll makes one thing clear: Voters are angryFeb 15, 2010 10:00 pm - President Obama's political stock is plunging. But not everyone is ready to accept it. A recent story about the findings of a new Washington Post-ABC News poll boasted ...
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Blagojevich reveals trial strategy, holes and allFeb 14, 2010 10:00 pm - PLAY, NO PAY: In a modest 287-word statement spoken after being arraigned on newly filed federal corruption charges, former Ill. Gov. Milorad "Rod" Blagojevich used the ...
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Closing the new frontierFeb 14, 2010 10:00 pm - "We have an agreement until 2012 that Russia will be responsible for this," says Anatoly Perminov, head of the Russian space agency, about ferrying astronauts from other...
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Slobs and American civilizationFeb 13, 2010 10:00 pm - Had George Washington joined me outside a Chili's at Chicago's O'Hare Airport recently, he would have shuddered at the sight. There, a nation of slobs paraded through th...