Opinion Columns
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Nothing like crisis to turn GOP's headFeb 26, 2009 10:00 pm - Read my lips: Like everyone else, I'd prefer no new taxes. Americans are taxed too much as it is and politicians - in both parties - are too wasteful with other people's...
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Local impact of dollar deluge is story to watchFeb 25, 2009 10:00 pm - As Peter Gabriel might say, "Lord, here comes the flood." As Glinda, the Good Witch of the North, might say, "Are you a good flood or a bad flood?" That, alas, remains t...
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Our history with Burris is already etched in stoneFeb 22, 2009 10:00 pm - There is a reason you don't see footnotes on a tombstone. Or grave markers with an asterisk next to the person's name. By the time the dearly departed is in resting in p...
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President: Stay calm and trustFeb 22, 2009 10:00 pm - Maybe it was the imminent passage of the stimulus bill, but 30,000 feet over Ohio as President Obama was heading to Chicago for a long weekend, "catastrophe" suddenly se...
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Don't tamper with constitution on senate choiceFeb 21, 2009 10:00 pm - A simple apology would have sufficed. Instead, Sen. Russ Feingold has decided to follow his McCain-Feingold evisceration of the First Amendment with Feingold-McCain, mor...
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Dark days may bring bright futuresFeb 21, 2009 10:00 pm - I am not one of these people who stay chirpily focused on the silver lining when the clouds gather over my head. So I have been vaguely put off by all those peppy artic...
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Reaching across aisle far from futileFeb 19, 2009 10:00 pm - As far as most of Washington is concerned, Barack Obama's big talk about bipartisanship is kaput. One month into his presidency, many pundits and political analysts have...
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Burris should know controversy abhors a vacuumFeb 18, 2009 10:00 pm - Well, it appears Sen. Roland Burris has found a way to make his troubles disappear. He announced Wednesday that he's no longer going to talk about them with the media, a...
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$800 billion plan? That was easy ...Feb 17, 2009 10:00 pm - Now comes the hard part. Difficult as it has been to push the almost $800 billion stimulus plan to the point of passage in Congress, making it work in local communities ...
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Agree or not, it's good to hear viewsFeb 15, 2009 10:00 pm - At a time when many Americans choose to be exposed only to opinions with which they agree, I still enjoy talking with those who see issues in a different light. And giv...