Opinion Columns
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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...
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Confusing twists and turns in the presidential primary campaignsDec 22, 2007 10:00 pm - MANCHESTER, N.H. -- Maybe it's the rush of pre-Christmas preparations. Or maybe it's the effects of too many holiday parties. But life has suddenly become very confusing...
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In the interest of some peace, try a Disunited States of AmericaDec 22, 2007 10:00 pm - In this season of hope, there is none to be had. The Elgin City Council is insulted that several thousand legal, taxpaying citizens asked them to answer a few questions ...
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Death of 'everybody's grandmother' a tough but essential storyDec 20, 2007 10:00 pm - What if you had to write the obituary on your own grandmother? With all due respect to Rose Tani's family, that's almost the situation we had in this newsroom when the n...
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Iowa series put presidential politics in suburban contextDec 19, 2007 10:00 pm - We know what's happening in Iowa can be relevant in the suburbs and has connections to suburban interests. I often think of the Daily Herald in a phrase similar to the c...
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Hillary Clinton will struggle to sell herself as an agent of changeDec 18, 2007 10:00 pm - Things are not working. The war in Iraq, originally penciled in for a month or two, is in its fifth year and will not end soon. The war in Afghanistan, once seemingly wo...
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Iowa debates offer voters vivid contrasts in candidate viewsDec 17, 2007 10:00 pm - DES MOINES -- In the space of 24 hours, the nine lecterns occupied by Republican presidential candidates in the auditorium of the Iowa Public Television studios were rep...
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Clinton, Bush share wrong idea on mortgagesDec 16, 2007 10:00 pm - She who would be president excoriates, as Democratic presidential candidates must, the current president and almost all his works. But she and he largely agree regarding...