Opinion Columns
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From McCain-Feingold to MadisonSep 12, 2009 11:00 pm - Last March, during the Supreme Court argument concerning the Federal Election Commission's banning of a political movie, several justices were aghast. Suddenly and belat...
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Overwrought, overrun by health care lettersSep 10, 2009 11:00 pm - I'd like to give you my view on a somewhat controversial topic: health care reform. I don't know. Seriously, I don't have a strong opinion on the right way to go. I do b...
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The reason for our discontentSep 10, 2009 11:00 pm - Who wrote the following: "We must learn to welcome and not to fear the voices of dissent. We must dare to think about 'unthinkable things' because when things become unt...
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Grateful to have a jobSep 10, 2009 11:00 pm - There was a New Yorker cartoon last spring picturing a nearly empty galley ship with only two slaves still pulling their oars under the grim eye of the master. In the ca...
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What was all the fuss about?Sep 09, 2009 11:00 pm - Just when you thought things couldn't get any stupider, schools across the nation decided to censor President Obama's speech urging kids to work hard because "being succ...
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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 ...