Opinion Columns
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Back in the U.S.S.A.Nov 26, 2009 10:00 pm - Not all revolutions begin in the streets with tanks and guns. Some advance slowly, almost imperceptibly, until a nation is transformed and the public realizes too late t...
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A backlash of mistrustNov 26, 2009 10:00 pm - Is there such a thing as communications malpractice? If so, we might consider the case of Women v. the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. I'm not talking about medical...
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Keep those News Tips and Questions a-comin'Nov 26, 2009 10:00 pm - Not to sound whiny, but I take one lousy day off work and return to 258 e-mails in my in box. Yes, admittedly it was Monday, so the tally included the weekend stuff. But...
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You can go home againNov 24, 2009 10:00 pm - In the past, I've advised undocumented immigrants from Mexico to learn English, become legal, value education, refuse handouts, resist entitlement, and culturally assimi...
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Missing Barack ObamaNov 24, 2009 10:00 pm - In my set, I am known as the guy who always had some reservations about Barack Obama. Sure, I supported him in the primaries against Hillary Clinton and I voted for him,...
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Travesty in New YorkNov 23, 2009 10:00 pm - For late-19th-century anarchists, terrorism was the "propaganda of the deed." And the most successful propaganda-by-deed in history was 9/11 - not just the most destruct...
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Hating your cake and eating it, tooNov 23, 2009 10:00 pm - COLUMBIA, S.C. - In town to give a talk on civility, I was surrounded by women who wondered what I thought of Sarah Palin's recent Newsweek cover. "Why aren't women comi...
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Talking turkey? Illinois frequent fliers on the public doleNov 22, 2009 10:00 pm - If turkeys could fly, more of them would escape the Thanksgiving cleaver and we'd be eating salami on Thursday. But we all know that most turkeys can't fly, right? Excep...
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Oil's expanding frontiersNov 21, 2009 10:00 pm - What city contributed most to the making of the modern world? The Paris of the Enlightenment and then of Napoleon, pioneer of mass armies and nationalist statism? London...
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The civic price of courting corporationsNov 21, 2009 10:00 pm - Amtrak riders passing through New London, Conn., can catch an odd sight in an otherwise picturesque New England setting: a fancy corporate center standing next to a stre...