Opinion Columns
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Minutemen's comic act on presidential campaign stageJan 01, 2008 10:00 pm - Tired of playing cop, some in the Minuteman movement are trying to influence the 2008 presidential election by playing powerbroker. And like just about everything this b...
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Next president must be a strong leader in a dangerous worldDec 31, 2007 10:00 pm - Once again, the cold, cruel outside world intruded on the quiet of a holiday season. The assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto two days after C...
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It's time to heed Gore's warning of global warmingDec 30, 2007 10:00 pm - Since this is the list-making time of year, allow me to add a tiny trophy to Al Gore's very full shelf: the prize for the most elegant speech of 2007. I wasn't sure how ...
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Before the year ends, I'd like to point out a few thingsDec 30, 2007 10:00 pm - There are so many loose ends on the last day of the year. • If Chicago's incoming police superintendent wants to shake up a department stung by corruption and misconduct...
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Re-learning hard lesson that creation is almost always messyDec 29, 2007 10:00 pm - Creation is a messy business. Just ask the guy who strikes out on his own after dying a little each day in cubicle world. Or a mother delivering a baby. Or those who hop...
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Re-learning hard lesson that creation is almost always messyDec 29, 2007 10:00 pm - Creation is a messy business. Just ask the guy who strikes out on his own after dying a little each day in cubicle world. Or a mother delivering a baby. Or those who hop...
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No one delivers a more powerful stump speech than ObamaDec 29, 2007 10:00 pm - MANCHESTER, N.H. -- Barack Obama has become a one-trick pony. But what a trick it is! The stump speech he has developed in the closing stages of the pre-Christmas campai...
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Inspiring story of a humanitarian military missionDec 23, 2007 10:00 pm - Frustrated with immigration posturing and tired of the mudslinging in Iowa, all the while trying to avoid thinking about Iran's nuclear intentions, I was in the mood for...
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I'll go ahead and say it: 'Christmas'Dec 23, 2007 10:00 pm - Warning: If you are politically correct, please skip this column. This is a story about Christmas. I figure it's OK for me to actually write that word Christmas since it...
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Bush succeeded in Iraq, but not so in Iran, North KoreaDec 22, 2007 10:00 pm - Just four months after 9/11, George Bush identified Iran, Iraq and North Korea as the "axis of evil" and declared that defanging these rogue regimes was America's most u...