Opinion Columns
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Writers show how debate can be lively, civil at same timeApr 30, 2008 11:00 pm - It is more art than science to apply subjective rules about sensitivity in monitoring readers' passions. My column last week about the rudeness of many who comment about...
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Wright is on center stage - to the delight of Obama's opponentsApr 29, 2008 11:00 pm - Because John McCain and other legislators worry that they are easily corrupted, there are legal limits to the monetary contributions that anyone can make to political ca...
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In taking offense, it is not always what is said, but the way it is heardApr 28, 2008 11:00 pm - George Bernard Shaw said England and America were two countries separated by a common language. Richard Cohen says that white and black Americans are in a similar fix. S...
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Curfews and time out won't stop killings in ChicagoApr 27, 2008 11:00 pm - "One shooting, one murder is one too many," said Jody Weis, the new superintendent of the Chicago Police Department. Of course he is correct. No one deserves to be murde...
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Those 'distractions' reveal much about Obama's characterApr 26, 2008 11:00 pm - Real change has never been easy. ... The status quo in Washington will fight. They will fight harder than ever to divide us and distract us with ads and attacks from now...
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Pinball would-be wizard's lament: For the days of Tropic IsleApr 24, 2008 11:00 pm - One of my favorite childhood memories goes back to when I was 7 or 8 years old. My dad would take me with him to his Friday-night bowling league. While he bowled, I'd p...
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Senior citizens keep Clinton's hopes alive in PennsylvaniaApr 24, 2008 11:00 pm - By now there are so many sports metaphors littering the campaign coverage that it's hard to tell CNN from ESPN. The Pennsylvania primary not only had its wrestling match...
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Democrats fear divisiveness is working in McCain's favorApr 23, 2008 11:00 pm - For battle-weary Democrats, the big news out of Pennsylvania is pretty simple: Their nightmare continues. In the seven weeks between the Texas and Ohio primaries in ear...
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Online discourse powerful, but more civility would be niceApr 23, 2008 11:00 pm - Online 'comments' let readers react immediately, restrained only by their good manners. Unfortunately, some writers don't have much restraining them. I am sometimes at a...
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U.S.-born Latinos weary with the ugliness in immigration debateApr 22, 2008 11:00 pm - U.S.-born Latinos in America are fed up. They're tired of the ugliness in the immigration debate, and they're not buying the argument that it does not concern them. Tak...