Opinion Columns
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Obama faces high stakes this fallJun 13, 2009 11:00 pm - It was probably inevitable that the elections for governor, taking place in November in New Jersey and Virginia, would be seen by many people outside those states as a r...
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Joke reveals something rotten in AmericaJun 13, 2009 11:00 pm - One thing we can conclude from David Letterman's bad Sarah Palin jokes: He hasn't flown commercial in a while. Letterman's "slutty flight attendant" remark about Palin w...
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Between a rock and a health reformJun 11, 2009 11:00 pm - The goal of the Obama White House is to come up with a health-care plan that can attract bipartisan support. The president has told visitors he would rather have 70 vote...
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Doing the identity dance - on crutchesJun 11, 2009 11:00 pm - Let us hope that Sonia Sotomayor's tumble on the way to Washington doesn't become a metaphor for her journey to the Supreme Court. For the moment, the broken ankle that ...
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How about a debate to cap off war of words?Jun 11, 2009 11:00 pm - May I direct your attention to Fence Post, found under the letters tab of the opinion Web page. Those letters are the latest salvos in a monthslong feud among leaders of...
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Palin problem an embarrassing display for GOPJun 10, 2009 11:00 pm - Sarah Palin, governor of Alaska and GOP "It" girl, can warm up the Republican base like a hot toddy in a duck blind. But further inside the party organization, the air i...
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Changes seek more decorum in online conversationsJun 10, 2009 11:00 pm - One of the exciting advances that the World Wide Web enabled for the experience of reading a newspaper was the ability for readers to respond immediately to stories and ...
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Immigration reform's hidden factorJun 08, 2009 11:00 pm - A month ago, before most Americans had ever heard of Sonia Sotomayor, I predicted to a group of friends that Latinos would get either a Supreme Court justice or immigrat...
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Words of perspective amid the precipitationJun 07, 2009 11:00 pm - When you have gone mano-a-mano with the Gambino crime family, slogged through the wreckage of an embassy bombing, pursued Osama bin Laden and Scooter Libby and strung up...
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Let growth happen in settlementsJun 07, 2009 11:00 pm - Obama the Humble declares there will be no more "dictating" to other countries. We should "forge partnerships as opposed to simply dictating solutions," he told the G-20...