Opinion Columns
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The emptiness of double triumphsDec 26, 2009 10:00 pm - It was serendipitous to have almost simultaneous climaxes in Copenhagen and Congress. The former's accomplishment was indiscernible, the latter's was unsightly. It would...
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Jesus the socialistDec 24, 2009 10:00 pm - Apparently not content with his congressional majority that wishes to force Americans on a long march to health care disaster, President Obama has invoked the name of Je...
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Rome's call: 'Come on over'Dec 23, 2009 10:00 pm - Late in life, the mother of the Rev. Thomas Reese, S.J., began attending mass at a Southern California church, the congregation of which soon became Spanish-speaking. Se...
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At the window, hopeDec 22, 2009 10:00 pm - From the 14th floor of New York-Presbyterian Hospital, I could look across the East River to much of Brooklyn and Queens. Behind me in the hospital bed was the woman I l...
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One is the loneliest numberDec 22, 2009 10:00 pm - In the last year or so of George W. Bush's second term, commentators used to talk a lot about the conspicuous scarcity of other Republicans willing to stand up and defen...
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Merely mortal Obama inventing himselfDec 21, 2009 10:00 pm - Perhaps it is the spirit of the season, but my empathy receptors are in overdrive for poor Barack Obama. All he wanted for Christmas was a health care reform bill -- and...
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A job path to legalizationDec 20, 2009 10:00 pm - With the nation's jobless rate at 10 percent and six applicants for every opening, you might think this is the worst possible time for Congress to legalize millions of ...
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An anniversary of sortsDec 20, 2009 10:00 pm - Twenty-five years ago this week, I wrote my first column. I'm not much given to self-reflection - why do you think I quit psychiatry? - but I figure once every quarter-c...
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A Christmas parable from the pastDec 20, 2009 10:00 pm - As a former teenage magician, a magic mentor of mine once instructed me on the best way to perform a trick. "You tell them what you're going to do. You do it. And then y...
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The indispensable dispenserDec 19, 2009 10:00 pm - "Last year," Ryan Bingham says, "I spent 322 days on the road, which means that I had to spend 43 miserable days at home." Home is an Omaha rental unit less furnished th...