Opinion Columns
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Watching a pro take on national sports storySep 23, 2009 11:00 pm - Sure, there may be sports reporters who lie in wait for the juicy scoop or feed off the bottom of players' psyches in search of a catchy headline. Bruce Miles, though, i...
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In the way and out the windowSep 22, 2009 11:00 pm - The Defenestration of Prague occurred in 1618 when two royal officials were summarily thrown out of some rather high windows and landed, as luck would have it and histor...
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World's bullies see America's strength waningSep 22, 2009 11:00 pm - When I was a kid, there was a bully in our neighborhood. He punched, pushed and kicked kids smaller and weaker than himself, especially those who refused to respond to h...
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Republican chairman finding his voiceSep 21, 2009 11:00 pm - As an African-American elected to an office never before occupied by someone who looked like him, this national leader has a chance to improve race relations in this cou...
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They're not lies, but not truth eitherSep 20, 2009 11:00 pm - You lie? No. Barack Obama doesn't lie. He's too subtle for that. He . . . well, you judge. Herewith three examples within a single speech - the now-famous Obama-Wilson "...
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Why has Jordan been grounded during Olympic effort?Sep 20, 2009 11:00 pm - It didn't have the dastardly sound of "you lie!" nor did it result in a public spanking, but Michelle Obama used the word "pathetic" the other day when referring to the ...
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In the muddled middleSep 19, 2009 11:00 pm - In the early 1970s when Max Baucus, now the senior senator from Montana and the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, was contemplating entering politics, he sought ...
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Playing the race deckSep 19, 2009 11:00 pm - Charges of racism these past several days, from op-ed pages to Jimmy Carter's interpretation of Rep. Joe Wilson's "You lie!" outburst, are proving ... complicated. Stran...
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Applying a double standard on racismSep 17, 2009 11:00 pm - When Barack Obama was elected president of the United States, some suggested that race played a factor in his success. People "wanted" to elect a black man president bec...
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Collaborative style at odds with polarized politicsSep 17, 2009 11:00 pm - For me, the real Obama moment of this back-to-work season wasn't the speech before Congress or Wall Street. It was in the Virginia schoolhouse when a ninth-grader asked ...