Opinion Columns
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No golf claps here; fans share their Solheim storiesAug 27, 2009 11:00 pm - As the print sponsor for the Solheim Cup, the Daily Herald prepared the Solheim Cup program, a first of its kind for us. The company also was granted numerous passes to ...
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Solheim lessons: Don't stand in front of customersAug 27, 2009 11:00 pm - Let me get this part out of the way first: Natalie Gulbis looks better in person than on TV. My buddy Rob and I made that major observation when we attended the final ro...
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Kennedy learned to be his own manAug 27, 2009 11:00 pm - So the family will be gathering again. No, not the family, the clan. That's the word we always used to describe the Kennedys, as if they were the huge sprawling royal tr...
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Solheim lessons: Don't stand in front of customersAug 27, 2009 11:00 pm - Let me get this part out of the way first: Natalie Gulbis looks better in person than on TV. My buddy Rob and I made that major observation when we attended the final ro...
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Defusing the Google bombAug 26, 2009 11:00 pm - When Oscar Wilde observed that the only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about, he could not have imagined the Internet. The wild frontier we now ...
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Obama's a teacher without a lesson planAug 25, 2009 11:00 pm - Let's go back to that "teachable moment." It was proclaimed by Barack Obama after he said that police in Cambridge, Mass., had acted "stupidly" in arresting Henry Louis ...
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Hitler sideshows are a cheap shot that only hurtsAug 24, 2009 11:00 pm - Midway through the month's town hall meetings on health care, it seems the shark has jumped the shark - and even Hitler must be sick of himself. The terrible tyrant can'...
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Let's be honest of death counselingAug 23, 2009 11:00 pm - Let's see if we can have a reasoned discussion about end-of-life counseling. We might start by asking Sarah Palin to leave the room. I've got nothing against her. She's ...
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New Cubs owners bring some diversity - all in the familyAug 23, 2009 11:00 pm - If you thought the Chicago Cubs ownership dynamics were frayed the past 28 years, you ain't seen nothin' yet. Ongoing conflicts of interest between the Tribune media com...
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Education Deja Vu -- How ironicAug 22, 2009 11:00 pm - Today's lesson is about irony. Example: When teachers unions and other defenders of the educational status quo -- who spent years blasting a Republican president for exp...