Opinion Columns
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Al-Qaida has accomplice in TSAJan 03, 2010 10:00 pm - Only the Transportation Security Administration could screw up a thank you. "It was a very good year for TSA," wrote acting TSA Administrator Gail Rossides to the agency...
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Napolitano flavors the administrationJan 02, 2010 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON - Most Americans got their first prolonged look at Janet Napolitano, the secretary of homeland security, last weekend. After a passenger on a Northwest Airlin...
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Despite facts, hard to shake fear of flyingJan 02, 2010 10:00 pm - Now is the time for those of us on vacation to start talking ourselves back onto the planes we have to board to get home. Here I am in paradise - actually, the Grand Wai...
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Resolved: Tell the truthDec 31, 2009 10:00 pm - No one I know makes New Year's resolutions anymore. In part this may be because the resolutions often deal with our weaknesses - lose weight, quit smoking - so that when...
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Out of catastrophe, renewalDec 30, 2009 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON - Already 99.9 (and about 58 more 9s) percent of the universe - it is expanding lickety-split - is beyond Earth's atmosphere. Into what is it expanding? Hard ...
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We'd be happy to do this 'strip tease'Dec 30, 2009 10:00 pm - U.S. Rep. Jason Chaffetz proudly championed a measure last spring that bans whole-body imaging as a primary screening technique at airports. "You don't have to look at m...
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It really ought to be called 'illegal'Dec 29, 2009 10:00 pm - Those on the pro-immigrant left have shown considerable courage in taking on Maricopa County, Ariz., Sheriff Joe Arpaio, Minutemen vigilantes, border walls and an endles...
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Letting goDec 29, 2009 10:00 pm - Editor's note: This is Ellen Goodman's final column. BOSTON - There is something fitting about writing my last column on the first day of a new year. January, after...
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Obama must start taking threats seriouslyDec 28, 2009 10:00 pm - Had it not been for a malfunctioning detonator, nearly 300 people traveling on a Christmas Day flight might have perished. Only the faulty device, along with some fast-a...
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2009: The year of living fecklesslyDec 27, 2009 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON - On Tuesday, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad did not just reject President Obama's latest feckless floating nuclear deadline. He spat on it, declaring ...