Opinion Columns
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Putting Clinton on his ticket would be a bad move by ObamaJun 07, 2008 11:00 pm - An axiom. When voters watch a presumptive presidential nominee considering this or that running mate, they think: What if the president dies? When the presumptive nomine...
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Obama must stop the retreat if he's to regain the initiativeJun 05, 2008 11:00 pm - From Iowa in January through South Dakota and Montana in June, Barack Obama has enjoyed one of the great rides in American political history, breaking precedents and set...
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In leaving his church, Obama shows he's a traditional politicianJun 03, 2008 11:00 pm - Say it ain't so. Barack Obama has worked hard to convince Americans that he is the untraditional politician -- immune to special interests, loyal to his faith, close to...
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Shattering the myths about coverage of the presidential campaignJun 02, 2008 11:00 pm - As dramatic as the contests have been for the Democratic and Republican presidential nominations, they have not been enough to satisfy myth-makers. With the general elec...
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What if it was Hillary Clinton vs. Barry Dunham?Jun 01, 2008 11:00 pm - "I'm white. I'm entitled. And a black man is stealing my show!" Those were the words of noted Hillary Clinton impersonator Michael Pfleger, aka Father Michael Pfleger, t...
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If elected, Obama could face problems that doomed CarterMay 31, 2008 11:00 pm - A year after Jimmy Carter lost his re-election race to Ronald Reagan, Hamilton Jordan, his former White House chief of staff, sat down for a lengthy interview with schol...
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A little humanity in an increasingly heartless worldMay 29, 2008 11:00 pm - If Jim Caudill weren't my friend. If I hadn't talked at length to the sister of a murder victim -- or to a friend of a man critically injured on his motorcycle. Perhaps,...
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Obama, as president, could face problems that doomed CarterMay 29, 2008 11:00 pm - A year after Jimmy Carter lost his re-election race to Ronald Reagan, Hamilton Jordan, his former White House chief of staff, sat down for a lengthy interview with schol...
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Media hosts who poison the public mood against LatinosMay 28, 2008 11:00 pm - Some who rail against illegal immigration can dish it out but they can't take it. Since most illegal immigrants come from Mexico or other parts of Latin America, critics...
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The last of the doughboys from World War IMay 25, 2008 11:00 pm - CHARLES TOWN, W.Va. -- Numbers come precisely from the agile mind and nimble tongue of Frank Buckles, who seems bemused to say that 4,734,991 Americans served in the mil...