Opinion Columns
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Shriver's legacy: A look at the nature of heavenAug 11, 2009 11:00 pm - "Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these." ...
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Fear no evil in benign provision of health care billAug 10, 2009 11:00 pm - I am as happy as anyone at signs of an economic recovery. But I confess to having mixed feelings about the resurgence of the wing-nut industry. We now have "The Birthers...
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Latinos know profiling all too wellAug 10, 2009 11:00 pm - If you think it's embarrassing for an African-American to have to identify himself to the police while in his own house, imagine how humiliating it is for U.S.-born Hisp...
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Top Roman Catholic official's transcript shows 'who cares'Aug 09, 2009 11:00 pm - "Thou shall not speak in code" isn't one of the Ten Commandments. So for decades, when top Roman Catholic officials of the Chicago Archdiocese used the word "sabbatical"...
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Health care reform: a better planAug 09, 2009 11:00 pm - In 1986, Ronald Reagan and Bill Bradley created a legislative miracle. They fashioned a tax reform that stripped loopholes, political favors, payoffs, patronage and othe...
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Sotomayor's potential impactAug 08, 2009 11:00 pm - When Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina was explaining his decision to become one of the nine Republicans to support the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor, he said ...
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Outrage begins to dog usAug 08, 2009 11:00 pm - Maybe it's the dog days, but three friends recently got in touch within a 24-hour period to catch up. Or more like it, to catch their breath. One reported the onset of ...
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Tom Watson, Titans stand up for the geezersAug 06, 2009 11:00 pm - No, this isn't another column about golf, but I would like to mention 59-year-old Tom Watson's heroic near-win at the British Open a couple weeks ago. I'm guessing there...
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Local news is daily devotion of the Daily HeraldAug 05, 2009 11:00 pm - Local. Every day. Everywhere. It's not yet a Daily Herald slogan, but it could be. Managing Editor Madeleine Doubek informally coined the phrase this week as a group of ...
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Dugan is bottom feeder of criminal societyAug 02, 2009 11:00 pm - We don't let prisoners pick their punishment in this country. And we don't let those being punished pick their prisons. The crooks and the connivers ask, of course, espe...