Opinion Columns
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Mark a date for immigration billNov 07, 2009 10:00 pm - It's time to send Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York a slew of calendars. Here's why. One of my favorite stories from the civil rights movement involves James L. Farmer Jr....
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No climate for a change treatyNov 07, 2009 10:00 pm - Intelligent people agree that, absent immediate radical action regarding global warming, the human race is sunk. That is a tautology because those who do not agree are, ...
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What option for Afghan women?Nov 05, 2009 10:00 pm - It's been 11 years since I looked through a photo album smuggled out of Afghanistan by a brave young woman. "This is a doctor," she said, pointing to one picture. "This ...
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Can the Tenth Amendment save us?Nov 05, 2009 10:00 pm - Does the U.S. Constitution stand for anything in an era of government excess? Can that founding document, which is supposed to restrain the power and reach of a centrali...
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Respectful, varied use of words can nudge the worldNov 04, 2009 10:00 pm - Paul Rusesabagina spoke in the suburbs this week about the power of words. It's an important message for anyone, but especially for people who produce and who read newsp...
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Lessons from Bernie MadoffNov 04, 2009 10:00 pm - In his own telling, Bernard Madoff was a version of the serial killer who leaves notes saying, "Stop me before I kill again." In Madoff's case, he was waiting for the Se...
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Saving the newsNov 03, 2009 10:00 pm - Each time another report surfaces about the decline of newspapers, I feel like a death-row inmate counting the warden's footsteps. The latest echo of doom arrived a few ...
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Obama's clout will be tested in three races todayNov 02, 2009 10:00 pm - The first key votes of the Obama era take place this week, not on the floor of the House or Senate, but in Virginia, New Jersey and New York, where President Obama's end...
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The three envelopesNov 01, 2009 10:00 pm - Old Soviet joke: Moscow, 1953. Stalin calls in Khrushchev. "Niki, I'm dying. Don't have much to leave you. Just three envelopes. Open them, one at a time, when you get ...
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If you don't understand 'GNOC, please read thisNov 01, 2009 10:00 pm - 143 and 459 are nice. Unless you are saying so under the influence of 420. Or if it leads to GNOC. If you don't understand what I have just written, then your children h...