Opinion Columns
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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 ...
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Survey emphasizes need for vigilance on press standardsSep 16, 2009 11:00 pm - Jody Powell, the former Jimmy Carter press secretary who died this week, said in an interview once that he often referred to a note card he kept that contained this phra...
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Charles Rangel: The entitled oneSep 15, 2009 11:00 pm - Once upon a time, before I began an interview with Rep. Charles Rangel, I was warned by an aide not to bring up the 1970 race in which the upstart Rangel defeated the vi...
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As the lies escalate, so does the hypocrisySep 15, 2009 11:00 pm - Wouldn't it be nice, as The Beach Boys sang in another context, if there was such a thing as a liar meter? It would detect when a politician wasn't telling the truth and...
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A ruling for accountabilitySep 14, 2009 11:00 pm - I never knew how conservative I was until the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Or how liberal I was until John Ashcroft revealed his plans to prevent more attacks. ...
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To the very end, Chris Kelly wasn't the guy who swerved firstSep 13, 2009 11:00 pm - Once in a while, the ex-officio governor of Illinois Chris Kelly would stop by a Starbucks near our house, and my wife would mention to me that she saw him there. Kelly...
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The Van Jones matterSep 13, 2009 11:00 pm - So Van Jones, the White House green-jobs czar, once called Republicans "a--holes." Big deal. I've said worse about Democrats. I've said worse about Republicans. I've sai...
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Now try the tough stuffSep 12, 2009 11:00 pm - A great speech is a combination of words and music, of content and color, of substance and emotion. When the speech is as important as the health care address that Presi...