Opinion Columns
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Don't take offense, it's just a jokeMay 12, 2009 11:00 pm - There's nothing un-funnier than Saturday night's jokes reviewed by the caffeinated light of Monday morning. Which is why we shouldn't quarterback a comedian over coffee ...
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'Most of what you learned at college, you will never really use'May 10, 2009 11:00 pm - In an effort to recoup even some of the college tuition payments that we have made the past four years, I would have been delighted to offer my daughter's college a cut-...
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Old is new again in upside-down economic policiesMay 09, 2009 11:00 pm - From Oct. 18 to Dec. 3, 1961, 116,000 people visited New York's Museum of Modern Art before anyone noticed that Henri Matisse's painting "Le Bateau" had been hung upside...
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When rationing may be rationalMay 07, 2009 11:00 pm - I was not surprised by the president's story. Health care reform is not just a matter of spreadsheets and patient charts. It's a repository of personal narratives we car...
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Obama should make more history with nominationMay 07, 2009 11:00 pm - As someone who knows what it's like to make history, President Obama should understand that - with the retirement of Justice David Souter - it's time to whip up another ...
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The conservative 'happy warrior'May 06, 2009 11:00 pm - On the very day last week that Jack Kemp, the former quarterback, congressman and 1996 vice presidential candidate, succumbed to cancer, other Republicans were honoring ...
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One time when ignorance just might be blissMay 05, 2009 11:00 pm - IN THE MIAMI AIRPORT - Against the advice our vice president, I have braved the germ-infested world, forced into transit by prior commitments and surrounded by strangers...
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This litmus test is one that would countMay 05, 2009 11:00 pm - As the time approaches for President Obama to choose a successor to Justice David Souter, the term "litmus test" will be heard throughout the land. The White House will ...
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Can the Big 3 still survive after ignoring signs?May 04, 2009 11:00 pm - When I was in high school, my parents gave me 15 shares of General Motors stock, worth maybe $600, and a lecture on investing in America. This is a great company, they ...
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'I have never heard of any City Council member ...'May 03, 2009 11:00 pm - Tonight is the anniversary of the deadliest event in Chicago Police Department history. On the evening of May 4, 1886, as a drizzle fell on the city's near West side, a ...