Opinion Columns
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Now, where was I?Sep 24, 2009 11:00 pm - There was a time when I considered myself a champion multitasker. This, of course, was in the days when the Olympic event of technological multitasking was unloading the...
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Glenn Beck explainedSep 24, 2009 11:00 pm - "They would not listen, they're not listening still. Perhaps they never will." - Don McLean, "Vincent" Radio and TV commentator Glenn Beck was mentioned three times in s...
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Special touchdown called for special effort to tellSep 24, 2009 11:00 pm - One of our best stories in recent memory might not have seen the light of print. "Magic in the End Zone," an emotionally stirring piece, ran as our "centerpiece" on Wedn...
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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 ...