Opinion Columns
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For governors, there are no easy choicesFeb 20, 2010 10:00 pm - As the nation's governors gather in Washington, the states they lead are facing what one knowledgeable authority calls "a lost decade" of stagnant or declining revenues ...
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Cull of the coyote attacked on many frontsFeb 18, 2010 10:00 pm - Well, that certainly seems to have stirred up a hornet's nest. I'm referring, of course, to the Great Coyote Debate. As my colleague Jim Slusher so eloquently pointed ou...
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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 ...