Opinion Columns
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Two Zahras shine light on women's rightsJun 17, 2009 11:00 pm - There's a "new" old name suddenly in circulation that is both filled with ancient history and ripe with a revolutionary spirit for today's game-changing events. Zahra. W...
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Schwarzenegger stands up for LatinosJun 16, 2009 11:00 pm - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has been taking a beating for recent comments intended to force Californians to stop blaming illegal immigrants for the state's budget crisis....
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What about anti-semitism is mainstream?Jun 16, 2009 11:00 pm - To more people than we like to admit, the mystery of James W. von Brunn, the alleged shooter at the Holocaust Memorial Museum, is not that he held weird and depraved vie...
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Sounds like an end run on free speechJun 14, 2009 11:00 pm - For several decades, most of the ingenuity that liberal academics have invested in First Amendment analysis has aimed to justify limiting the core activity that the amen...
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Identical wakes for McNamee twins, 22 years apartJun 14, 2009 11:00 pm - Although it is difficult to remember what I did last Tuesday, I distinctly remember where I was 22 years ago last Tuesday. I was standing on a tree-shrouded driveway off...
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Obama faces high stakes this fallJun 13, 2009 11:00 pm - It was probably inevitable that the elections for governor, taking place in November in New Jersey and Virginia, would be seen by many people outside those states as a r...
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Joke reveals something rotten in AmericaJun 13, 2009 11:00 pm - One thing we can conclude from David Letterman's bad Sarah Palin jokes: He hasn't flown commercial in a while. Letterman's "slutty flight attendant" remark about Palin w...
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Between a rock and a health reformJun 11, 2009 11:00 pm - The goal of the Obama White House is to come up with a health-care plan that can attract bipartisan support. The president has told visitors he would rather have 70 vote...
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Doing the identity dance - on crutchesJun 11, 2009 11:00 pm - Let us hope that Sonia Sotomayor's tumble on the way to Washington doesn't become a metaphor for her journey to the Supreme Court. For the moment, the broken ankle that ...
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How about a debate to cap off war of words?Jun 11, 2009 11:00 pm - May I direct your attention to Fence Post, found under the letters tab of the opinion Web page. Those letters are the latest salvos in a monthslong feud among leaders of...