Opinion Columns
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Praise for Congress on housing billAug 03, 2008 11:00 pm - If you were to ask Democrats Barney Frank and Chris Dodd - the principal architects of the massive housing bill signed Wednesday by President Bush - which of its many fe...
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Not much substance to Obama's eloquenceAug 02, 2008 11:00 pm - As the presidential candidates enter the three-month sprint to November, Barack Obama must be wondering: If that did not do it, what will? The antecedent of the pronoun ...
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Shattering the myth that women 'opt out' of workJul 30, 2008 11:00 pm - Let me begin by raising a glass of champagne to the official closing of the math gap. It turns out that girls do not lack the math gene. Nor are they math-phobic. A new ...
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Senate to White House is hard transitionJul 29, 2008 11:00 pm - One of the wisest men I ever knew in Washington was the late James H. Rowe Jr. He came out of Montana, went to Harvard Law School and was recruited by Felix Frankfurter...
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Wrong to oppose enforcement of immigration lawsJul 29, 2008 11:00 pm - In the immigration wars, you have to choose your battles carefully. Otherwise, you wind up preaching to the choir. Nativists on the far right make bad choices when they...
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What's good about McCain is hard to discern in ObamaJul 28, 2008 11:00 pm - "Just tell me one thing Barack Obama has done that you admire," I asked a prominent Democrat. He paused and then said that he admired Obama's speech to the Democratic co...
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Obama world trip leaves personal controversies behindJul 27, 2008 11:00 pm - "Thank you so much. I extend greetings from my pastor. He's like my priest. His name is Jeremiah Wright." With those words, Illinois Sen. Barack Obama introduced himself...
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Iraqi leader's cunning vote for ObamaJul 26, 2008 11:00 pm - In a stunning upset, Barack Obama this week won the Iraq primary. When Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki not once but several times expressed support for a U.S. troop withd...
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McCain misses point - we were misled into warJul 26, 2008 11:00 pm - Is it any wonder that John McCain was feeling a tad neglected? There was Barack Obama on a nine-day trip through eight countries with three network anchors and all John ...
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Obama's trip to Europe is not a high-risk ventureJul 24, 2008 11:00 pm - It made no sense when Barack Obama left the country on his nine-day overseas tour for some of my fellow columnists to describe it as a high-risk venture. Foreign leaders...