Opinion Columns
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Powell's change reflects GOP failuresOct 25, 2008 11:00 pm - A column, like a good movie, should have an arc - start here, end there and somehow connect the two. So this column will begin with the speech Condi Rice made to the Rep...
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Grieving parents remind us why we have to get it rightOct 23, 2008 11:00 pm - The note certainly got my attention: "Oftentimes," it began, "a mistake is a mistake. Occasionally, a mistake can cause pain." It was from Deirdre Darr, who participated...
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Series aims to help you cope, succeed in economic crisisOct 22, 2008 11:00 pm - It is an understatement in today's economy for a newspaper to say we feel your pain. It's also immaterial. Combined with changing reader habits, the recession or depress...
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In Chicago, greed for grades sends terrible messageOct 19, 2008 11:00 pm - "Greed is good-greed is right, greed works." Gordon Gecko in "Wall Street", 1987. "People lost their homes because of greed." Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, 2008. If greed...
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Latino voters trickier than you thinkOct 19, 2008 11:00 pm - Documentary filmmaker Philip Rodriguez has heard political observers - including me - predict that the Latino vote will decide this election. And he's not buying it. Nea...
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Upstart candidate gives lesson about assumptionsOct 16, 2008 11:00 pm - The candidate spoke rather disparagingly of the qualifications of some of the candidates from the other party. One was dismissed as a store clerk. That was on Wednesday ...
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A view from the streets of a swing stateOct 15, 2008 11:00 pm - UPPER DUBLIN, Pa. - Last April, on the eve of the Pennsylvania primary, voters in this Philadelphia suburb were finding plenty of fault with both Barack Obama and John M...
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Tales from the trail 3 weeks before Election DayOct 12, 2008 11:00 pm - COLUMBIA, Mo. - More than 170 years have passed since Huck Finn floated down the Mississippi River, propelled by Mark Twain's pen. Since then, there have been 37 U.S. pr...
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Next president won't have a honeymoonOct 11, 2008 11:00 pm - The good news for Barack Obama is that the calamities in the financial world may have created an insuperable barrier to John McCain's White House ambitions. The bad news...
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McCain is right to question Obama's tiesOct 11, 2008 11:00 pm - Convicted felon Tony Rezko. Unrepentant terrorist Bill Ayers. And the race-baiting Rev. Jeremiah Wright. It is hard to think of any presidential candidate before Barack ...