Opinion Columns
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Out of catastrophe, renewalDec 30, 2009 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON - Already 99.9 (and about 58 more 9s) percent of the universe - it is expanding lickety-split - is beyond Earth's atmosphere. Into what is it expanding? Hard ...
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We'd be happy to do this 'strip tease'Dec 30, 2009 10:00 pm - U.S. Rep. Jason Chaffetz proudly championed a measure last spring that bans whole-body imaging as a primary screening technique at airports. "You don't have to look at m...
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It really ought to be called 'illegal'Dec 29, 2009 10:00 pm - Those on the pro-immigrant left have shown considerable courage in taking on Maricopa County, Ariz., Sheriff Joe Arpaio, Minutemen vigilantes, border walls and an endles...
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Letting goDec 29, 2009 10:00 pm - Editor's note: This is Ellen Goodman's final column. BOSTON - There is something fitting about writing my last column on the first day of a new year. January, after...
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Obama must start taking threats seriouslyDec 28, 2009 10:00 pm - Had it not been for a malfunctioning detonator, nearly 300 people traveling on a Christmas Day flight might have perished. Only the faulty device, along with some fast-a...
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2009: The year of living fecklesslyDec 27, 2009 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON - On Tuesday, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad did not just reject President Obama's latest feckless floating nuclear deadline. He spat on it, declaring ...
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How to deal with the new Illinois ban on texting while drivingDec 27, 2009 10:00 pm - If you drive in Chicago and believe this week is the last fling for texting-while-at-the-wheel, think again. Surprise! It has been illegal for more than a year to send a...
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A warning Obama should heedDec 27, 2009 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON - On the day before Christmas, President Obama found two presents under his tree. One was the health care reform bill passed that morning by the Senate, a his...
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Quietly sizing up the last four decadesDec 26, 2009 10:00 pm - It is one of those moments when I feel like a time traveler. I look out the airplane window and watch a young woman on the tarmac directing our jet to its gate. As she w...
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The Grinch who stole immigration reformDec 26, 2009 10:00 pm - Just in time for the holidays, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has given Latino voters a valuable gift: clarity. So much of politics is masked in smoke and mirrors. If you co...