Opinion Columns
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Forward on AfghanistanDec 03, 2009 10:00 pm - President Obama should be commended for committing 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan to root out al-Qaida and stabilize major portions of the country. I am far les...
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'Thank you for not judging our loss'Dec 03, 2009 10:00 pm - On so many levels, it's been a depressing week. The snow that flew briefly Thursday is a reminder that months of cold, lousy weather loom. The economy sputters along; th...
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This will not end wellDec 02, 2009 10:00 pm - A traveler asks a farmer how to get to a particular village. The farmer replies, "If I were you, I wouldn't start from here." Barack Obama, who asked to be president, ne...
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Reporting aims to avoid adding more tragedyDec 02, 2009 10:00 pm - So while I'm still here livin', I guess I will live on. I could've died for love, but for livin' I was born. You might hear me holler and you might hear me cry. But I'll...
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What's all the fuss about same-sex marriage?Dec 01, 2009 10:00 pm - The truth is that if Maj. Nidal Hasan, the accused killer of 13 people at Fort Hood, had entered the officers club there with a nice handbag on his arm, perhaps a Gucci ...
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Kill the bills and do health reform rightDec 01, 2009 10:00 pm - The United States has the best health care in the world - but because of its inefficiencies, also the most expensive. The fundamental problem with the 2,074-page Senate ...
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Life in prison for child criminals?Nov 30, 2009 10:00 pm - The United States Supreme Court this month heard arguments in a case that could decide whether a child who commits a crime should be sentenced in some circumstances to l...
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An unwelcome cold spell for a late-budding mob bossNov 29, 2009 10:00 pm - Chicago Outfit bosses have devised some shrewd excuses to stall justice, from feigning heart attacks and strokes to babbling incoherently as if possessed by an evil spir...
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Rocky Mountain medical highNov 28, 2009 10:00 pm - DENVER - Inside the green neon sign, which is shaped like a marijuana leaf, is a red cross. The cross serves the fiction that most transactions in the store - which is w...
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Looking at a GOP suicide pactNov 28, 2009 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON - Some people can't stand prosperity, my father used to say. Today, he might be talking about Republicans, who, in the midst of declining support for Presiden...