Opinion Columns
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Latinos and the 2010 censusOct 12, 2009 11:00 pm - If Census Bureau estimates are accurate, there are about 47 million Latinos in the United States, accounting for about 15 percent of the total U.S. population. And, as ...
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Young Hamlet's agonyOct 11, 2009 11:00 pm - The genius of democracy is the rotation of power, which forces the opposition to be serious - particularly about things like war, about which until Jan. 20 of this year ...
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Nobel Prize for participation? Chicago parents know trendOct 11, 2009 11:00 pm - As a fellow soccer dad, Barack Obama shouldn't have been surprised when he won this year's Nobel Peace Prize. The Nobel Committee has merely started using the same crit...
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When progressives go retroOct 11, 2009 11:00 pm - Virginia women have plenty of reason to feel offended by their state's gubernatorial race, though not because the Republican candidate once wrote a dissertation observin...
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The president's choiceOct 10, 2009 11:00 pm - Afghanistan used to be a great issue for Barack Obama. As a candidate, he repeatedly argued that George W. Bush and his Defense Department had lost their way, focusing t...
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A heavy question for our politicsOct 10, 2009 11:00 pm - Every time you think politics has hit a new low, it finds a way to go lower. I thought we had reached the nadir last month when Rep. Joe Wilson of South Carolina shouted...
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We continue to spend away our futureOct 08, 2009 11:00 pm - "Neither a borrower nor a lender be." - William Shakespeare, "Hamlet" Why won't we listen to what used to be called sage advice before the Internet made too many of us t...
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The gay divorce fandangoOct 08, 2009 11:00 pm - I suppose there is something charming about watching conservative politicians in Texas trying so ardently to preserve a same-sex marriage. How else can you explain their...
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Meditations on a late-night star's blockbuster storyOct 07, 2009 11:00 pm - Sometimes, you can understand what makes the news news only if you take a very Zenlike approach to it. Case in point: David Letterman's sex life. I have to tell you this...
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Olympic gold for narcissismOct 07, 2009 11:00 pm - In the Niagara of words spoken and written about the Obamas' trip to Copenhagen, too few have been devoted to the words they spoke there. Their separate speeches to the ...