Opinion Columns
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Publishing football rosters only a small part of the gameAug 28, 2008 11:00 pm - Q: What do Alex Lincoln, Joshua Schaffer and Conner Yearian have in common? a. All play on the Neuqua Valley High School varsity football team. b. All are mentioned by p...
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Variety of tools let you direct political coverageAug 27, 2008 11:00 pm - Say what you will about the individual candidates, it is going to be an interesting election campaign season. The two key presidential candidates are smart and articulat...
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Gentleman Biden won't fill predictable roleAug 25, 2008 11:00 pm - I saw another man dance with Joe Biden's wife, Jill. It was almost three years ago, on the terrace of the sublime Villa d'Este on the shore of Italy's stunning Lake Como...
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Obama's financial ideals too idealisticAug 25, 2008 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON - Barack Obama has made his economic thinking excruciatingly clear, so it also is clear that his running mate should have been not Joe Biden, but Rumpelstilts...
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Unlocking Biden's baggage reveals Blago ticketAug 24, 2008 11:00 pm - Once upon a time, long before Barack Obama sent text messages about Joe Biden, there was another five-letter Illinoisan who had his eye on the altar. B-l-a-g-o. If only ...
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And the awards for sexism go too -Aug 23, 2008 11:00 pm - BOSTON - Once more we prepare to honor our foremothers by celebrating the anniversary of the passage of women's suffrage. Each year, in advance of August 26th, our one-w...
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Absurdly playing 'American card' against ObamaAug 18, 2008 11:00 pm - SAN DIEGO - While vacationing in his native Hawaii, Barack Obama said he wanted to enjoy some local cuisine - a plate lunch, shave ice, the noodle dish Zip Min - and rel...
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This summer has been a bad one for the truthAug 17, 2008 11:00 pm - LAS VEGAS - Unlike Chicago, whose motto is "The City that Works," Las Vegas could rightly be called "The City that Plays." But Vegas doesn't need a catchy new jingle. It...
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Day of Giving great way to battle apathy in troubled timesAug 14, 2008 11:00 pm - Philanthropy, I'll bet, is on a downswing. People are struggling to pay for a tank of gas, food at the store and other essentials; how can they find money to give to ch...
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Personal life again becomes political newsAug 13, 2008 11:00 pm - It should be understood at the outset that the John Edwards scandal is not something the Daily Herald would normally investigate, even if we were regular readers of the ...