Opinion Columns
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8 years later, our revenge is incompleteSep 08, 2009 11:00 pm - This week it will be eight years since I fled my office and rushed down to Lower Manhattan. Two planes had hit the World Trade Center - I had seen that on television - a...
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A choice Obama may regretSep 07, 2009 11:00 pm - As President Barack Obama prepares to address Congress on health care reform, America's pro-life movement is gassing up. If Obama hasn't liked the tenor of town-hall mee...
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Why Labor Day is sour for some Americans who want to workSep 06, 2009 11:00 pm - Just because Labor Day began as a Canadian holiday, it doesn't mean we should be celebrating the use of foreign labor at the expense of American jobs. I wasn't even plan...
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The time is now to leave IraqSep 05, 2009 11:00 pm - Since U.S. troops withdrew from Iraq's cities, two months have passed, and so has the illusion that Iraq is smoothly transitioning to a normality free of sectarian viole...
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Our labor of leisureSep 05, 2009 11:00 pm - Americans have the unalienable right to life, liberty and the pursuit of ... leisure? You would think so, given how hard some of our brethren fight for R & R -- even in ...
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A mom's concern helps unearth sex offender snafuSep 03, 2009 11:00 pm - Have you heard about the homeless colony of sex offenders living under the Julia Tuttle Causeway in Miami? Scores of people convicted of sex crimes have been living ther...
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Health care's senior momentsSep 03, 2009 11:00 pm - When exactly did the Republicans start operating one of those marketing scams that target the elderly? It was bad enough when Sarah Palin told a bald Facebook lie that ...
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Silence isn't golden in politicsSep 02, 2009 11:00 pm - COLUMBIA, S.C. - When people think of South Carolina, they think of ... I know, Comedy Central. Really, shouldn't Jon Stewart send South Carolinians a cut of his pay? Wh...
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Anonymous would-be sources limit perspectiveSep 02, 2009 11:00 pm - Must we in the press always have a hidden agenda behind the stories we write? Many people think so - even beyond the conservative ideologues who have somehow made the "l...
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In Afghanistan, knowing when to stopSep 01, 2009 11:00 pm - "Yesterday," reads the e-mail from Allen, a Marine in Afghanistan, "I gave blood because a Marine, while out on patrol, stepped on a (mine's) pressure plate and lost bot...