Opinion Columns
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Changes seek more decorum in online conversationsJun 10, 2009 11:00 pm - One of the exciting advances that the World Wide Web enabled for the experience of reading a newspaper was the ability for readers to respond immediately to stories and ...
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Immigration reform's hidden factorJun 08, 2009 11:00 pm - A month ago, before most Americans had ever heard of Sonia Sotomayor, I predicted to a group of friends that Latinos would get either a Supreme Court justice or immigrat...
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Words of perspective amid the precipitationJun 07, 2009 11:00 pm - When you have gone mano-a-mano with the Gambino crime family, slogged through the wreckage of an embassy bombing, pursued Osama bin Laden and Scooter Libby and strung up...
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Let growth happen in settlementsJun 07, 2009 11:00 pm - Obama the Humble declares there will be no more "dictating" to other countries. We should "forge partnerships as opposed to simply dictating solutions," he told the G-20...
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Hey taxpayers, have we got a deal for youJun 06, 2009 11:00 pm - "I want to disabuse people of this notion that somehow we enjoy meddling in the private sector." President Obama said that in March, when the government already owned 8...
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Summer's biggest battle will be over health care reformJun 06, 2009 11:00 pm - While headlines talk about a fight over confirming Judge Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court that may never develop, a much bigger battle is about to break out over Pr...
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Taking a tender approach when life meets deathJun 04, 2009 11:00 pm - A group of six, perhaps seven, is huddled around a computer at Director of Photography Jeff Knox's desk in the middle of the newsroom. They are a mix of managers, report...
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Debunking the myth of the lone shooterJun 04, 2009 11:00 pm - It is believed that the shooter acted alone. Surely, that's true. No one else was standing beside suspect Scott Roeder when it is believed he murdered Dr. George Tiller ...
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Carnival of the fire-breathersJun 03, 2009 11:00 pm - I intended to write about the GOP's message problem with the headline: "Shoot the Messenger." Sunday's murder of abortion doctor George Tiller makes my title inappropria...
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Refreshing restraint in CaliforniaJun 01, 2009 11:00 pm - Amid all the buzz these days about judicial activism, the California Supreme Court - in addressing gay marriage - recently displayed the opposite: judicial restraint. Th...