Opinion Columns
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To Ellen with loveJan 07, 2010 10:00 pm - I confess to feeling only slightly more rational than "Misery's" Kathy Bates. I want to strap Ellen Goodman into a chair and make her keep writing columns. Goodman, whos...
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Barack Obama's 9/11Jan 06, 2010 10:00 pm - Was Christmas Day 2009 the same kind of wake-up call for Barack Obama that Sept. 11, 2001, had been for George W. Bush? The near-miss by a passenger flying into Detroit ...
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Some sad stories must constantly be repeatedJan 06, 2010 10:00 pm - For more than two years early in the decade we've just completed, the Daily Herald conducted a strong, sustained crusade against drug use. Beginning with a package of st...
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Brat-pack parents strike backJan 05, 2010 10:00 pm - After recently criticizing bratty students at the University of California for protesting a fee hike because they'd rather have taxpayers subsidize their educations, I s...
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War? What war?Jan 04, 2010 10:00 pm - Janet Napolitano - former Arizona governor, now overmatched secretary of homeland security - will forever be remembered for having said of the attempt to bring down an a...
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It's Obama's ball nowJan 03, 2010 10:00 pm - As the new year commences, two facts emerge: George W. Bush is officially retired as the fault-guy for the nation's ills, and Barack Obama owns the game. Whether he want...
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Al-Qaida has accomplice in TSAJan 03, 2010 10:00 pm - Only the Transportation Security Administration could screw up a thank you. "It was a very good year for TSA," wrote acting TSA Administrator Gail Rossides to the agency...
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Napolitano flavors the administrationJan 02, 2010 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON - Most Americans got their first prolonged look at Janet Napolitano, the secretary of homeland security, last weekend. After a passenger on a Northwest Airlin...
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Despite facts, hard to shake fear of flyingJan 02, 2010 10:00 pm - Now is the time for those of us on vacation to start talking ourselves back onto the planes we have to board to get home. Here I am in paradise - actually, the Grand Wai...
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Resolved: Tell the truthDec 31, 2009 10:00 pm - No one I know makes New Year's resolutions anymore. In part this may be because the resolutions often deal with our weaknesses - lose weight, quit smoking - so that when...