Articles filed under Commentary
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The indispensable dispenserDec 19, 2009 10:00 pm - "Last year," Ryan Bingham says, "I spent 322 days on the road, which means that I had to spend 43 miserable days at home." Home is an Omaha rental unit less furnished th...
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Joe Lieberman's big pictureDec 19, 2009 10:00 pm - When Joe Lieberman said he would probably support the health care legislation - now that the public option and Medicare buy-in are being stripped out - the Democrat-turn...
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Adding upon fame without the shameDec 17, 2009 10:00 pm - Things being what they are, I'm delighted when any newspaper is hiring. And when someone lands a job in journalism, I'm ready to pop the cork. But I find it hard to swal...
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Dishing out some shock on debtDec 17, 2009 10:00 pm - The 34 names are familiar to anyone who has followed economic policy in Washington for the past generation, one-third of them former chairmen or members of key committee...
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Growing up in the USADec 16, 2009 10:00 pm - For more than two centuries, part of being an American has often meant struggling to be something else. No offense intended. It's not that people are looking for ways t...
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Sometimes, even fantasy manages to look like newsDec 16, 2009 10:00 pm - Odds and ends, this and that, random thoughts: Let's start with Tiger Woods, the AP's athlete of the decade. A few weeks ago, I wrote about being mystified by the news v...
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Programmed to killDec 15, 2009 10:00 pm - At the World Economic Forum some years ago, I attended a panel discussion on robots. One of the experts - everyone's an expert at Davos - predicted that robots would tak...
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Let Congress in on regulating carbonDec 14, 2009 10:00 pm - In the 1970s and early '80s, having seized control of the U.N. apparatus (by power of numbers), Third World countries decided to cash in. OPEC was pulling off the greate...
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We're getting good at burying our shameDec 14, 2009 10:00 pm - Early in my column-writing career I took note of comments by the singer Madonna. A skin magazine had published nude photos of her, taken when she was a teenager. An inte...
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Reinvest in America's recoveryDec 13, 2009 10:00 pm - The recent confirmation by the Obama administration that the economic stimulus funds earmarked for the U.S. Small Business Administration's loan programs have run out is...