Opinion Columns
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On immigration, punt formationDec 06, 2009 10:00 pm - The paradox of the Obama administration's plan to achieve comprehensive immigration reform - one of these days - is that the agency responsible for removing illegal immi...
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The politicization of crimeDec 05, 2009 10:00 pm - It's over for Mike Huckabee. His presidential hopes will not survive revelations that as governor of Arkansas he had commuted the long prison term of the now-dead Mauric...
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Summit is Earth's next 'last chance'Dec 05, 2009 10:00 pm - With 20,000 delegates, advocates and journalists jetting to Copenhagen for planet Earth's last chance, the carbon footprint of the global warming summit will be the only...
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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...