Opinion Columns
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Obama's financial ideals too idealisticAug 25, 2008 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON - Barack Obama has made his economic thinking excruciatingly clear, so it also is clear that his running mate should have been not Joe Biden, but Rumpelstilts...
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Unlocking Biden's baggage reveals Blago ticketAug 24, 2008 11:00 pm - Once upon a time, long before Barack Obama sent text messages about Joe Biden, there was another five-letter Illinoisan who had his eye on the altar. B-l-a-g-o. If only ...
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And the awards for sexism go too -Aug 23, 2008 11:00 pm - BOSTON - Once more we prepare to honor our foremothers by celebrating the anniversary of the passage of women's suffrage. Each year, in advance of August 26th, our one-w...
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Absurdly playing 'American card' against ObamaAug 18, 2008 11:00 pm - SAN DIEGO - While vacationing in his native Hawaii, Barack Obama said he wanted to enjoy some local cuisine - a plate lunch, shave ice, the noodle dish Zip Min - and rel...
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This summer has been a bad one for the truthAug 17, 2008 11:00 pm - LAS VEGAS - Unlike Chicago, whose motto is "The City that Works," Las Vegas could rightly be called "The City that Plays." But Vegas doesn't need a catchy new jingle. It...
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Day of Giving great way to battle apathy in troubled timesAug 14, 2008 11:00 pm - Philanthropy, I'll bet, is on a downswing. People are struggling to pay for a tank of gas, food at the store and other essentials; how can they find money to give to ch...
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Personal life again becomes political newsAug 13, 2008 11:00 pm - It should be understood at the outset that the John Edwards scandal is not something the Daily Herald would normally investigate, even if we were regular readers of the ...
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Voters need both McCain, Obama to stop the snipingAug 11, 2008 11:00 pm - In the time they served together in the U.S. Senate, John McCain and Barack Obama developed neither a friendship nor an intense dislike. They entered this campaign as re...
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Georgian crisis elevates presidential raceAug 11, 2008 11:00 pm - Asked in 1957 what would determine his government's course, Harold Macmillan, Britain's new prime minister, replied, "Events, dear boy, events." Now, into America's triv...
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CIA'S 'Iron Bob' hired Chicago mob to kill CastroAug 10, 2008 11:00 pm - For one simple reason, nearly all of the notable and notorious from Robert Maheu's life couldn't make it to his funeral over the weekend. They were dead. At age 90, Mahe...