Opinion Columns
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A mom's concern helps unearth sex offender snafuSep 03, 2009 11:00 pm - Have you heard about the homeless colony of sex offenders living under the Julia Tuttle Causeway in Miami? Scores of people convicted of sex crimes have been living ther...
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Health care's senior momentsSep 03, 2009 11:00 pm - When exactly did the Republicans start operating one of those marketing scams that target the elderly? It was bad enough when Sarah Palin told a bald Facebook lie that ...
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Silence isn't golden in politicsSep 02, 2009 11:00 pm - COLUMBIA, S.C. - When people think of South Carolina, they think of ... I know, Comedy Central. Really, shouldn't Jon Stewart send South Carolinians a cut of his pay? Wh...
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Anonymous would-be sources limit perspectiveSep 02, 2009 11:00 pm - Must we in the press always have a hidden agenda behind the stories we write? Many people think so - even beyond the conservative ideologues who have somehow made the "l...
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In Afghanistan, knowing when to stopSep 01, 2009 11:00 pm - "Yesterday," reads the e-mail from Allen, a Marine in Afghanistan, "I gave blood because a Marine, while out on patrol, stepped on a (mine's) pressure plate and lost bot...
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Tortured by our questionsSep 01, 2009 11:00 pm - Call him Ishmael. Call him a terrorist or a suicide bomber or anything else you want, but understand that he is willing - no, eager - to give his life for his cause. Cal...
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Obamacare: The only exit strategyAug 30, 2009 11:00 pm - Obamacare Version 1.0 is dead. The 1,000-page monstrosity that emerged in various editions from Congress was done in by widespread national revulsion not just at its exp...
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Chicago police-speak requires interpretationAug 30, 2009 11:00 pm - The sound of gunshots doesn't need translation. The sight of a motionless body in the middle of the street doesn't need explanation. What Chicago police had to say about...
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Is Bush lurking in Obamaland?Aug 30, 2009 11:00 pm - They say the older you get, the smarter your parents get. Likewise, it seems, the deeper President Barack Obama gets into his first term, the smarter President George W....
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In death do us part companyAug 29, 2009 11:00 pm - Reaction to Sen. Ted Kennedy's death suggests that there really are two Americas. One side sees in Kennedy a liberal lion who fought for the greater good, the other sees...