Articles filed under Commentary
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Iran starts to feel heatJul 31, 2010 11:00 pm - "They (the United States and Israel) have decided to attack at least two countries in the region in the next three months." - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, July...
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Immigration as partisanshipJul 31, 2010 11:00 pm - Christmas came early for demagogues. The court decision putting a hold on the worst provisions of Arizona's new anti-Latino immigration law is a gift-wrapped present to ...
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Dr. Donald Berwick, taxpayer money saving heroJul 29, 2010 11:00 pm - Welcome, Dr. Donald Berwick. Once you pull the arrows out of your back, you can get down to the important work for which you are supremely qualified: fixing the governme...
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The states as an electoral barometerJul 27, 2010 11:00 pm - In this high-stakes election of 2010, much attention naturally focuses on Republican efforts to come back in Congress and the Democrats' drive to retain their large majo...
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Telling us the obviousJul 27, 2010 11:00 pm - The news in that massive data dump provided by the dauntingly mysterious Wikileaks (who? what?) to one American and two European publications is that there is no news at...
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Road workers face tough conditionsJul 26, 2010 11:00 pm - Regarding the Fence Post letter that road crews should be glad to have jobs, here's another view. What the writer does not understand is that on paper it looks like thes...
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Underfunded pensions weigh on state workersJul 26, 2010 11:00 pm - Countless barrels of ink have been spilled in lamenting Illinois' fiscal crisis brought on by the staggering growth in unfunded pensions and retiree health obligations, ...
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Living with the folks and holding outJul 26, 2010 11:00 pm - A few years ago, before the current recession took hold, I was speaking to a group of high school students and wound up being given a pop quiz. I assured my audience th...
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Outsourcing governmentJul 25, 2010 11:00 pm - In another country also called America, there were no credit cards and excessive debt was seen as a character flaw. In that America, my grandparents and their parents ha...
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Using race to smear ObamaJul 24, 2010 11:00 pm - After the Shirley Sherrod episode, there's no longer any need to mince words: A cynical right-wing propaganda machine is peddling the poisonous fiction that when African...