Articles filed under Commentary
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What happened to questioning authority?Jun 11, 2009 11:00 pm - A criticism heard during the early years of the Bush administration was that the media were "in the tank" for Bush, fearing to question his foreign and domestic policies...
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Doing the identity dance - on crutchesJun 11, 2009 11:00 pm - Let us hope that Sonia Sotomayor's tumble on the way to Washington doesn't become a metaphor for her journey to the Supreme Court. For the moment, the broken ankle that ...
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How about a debate to cap off war of words?Jun 11, 2009 11:00 pm - May I direct your attention to Fence Post, found under the letters tab of the opinion Web page. Those letters are the latest salvos in a monthslong feud among leaders of...
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Palin problem an embarrassing display for GOPJun 10, 2009 11:00 pm - Sarah Palin, governor of Alaska and GOP "It" girl, can warm up the Republican base like a hot toddy in a duck blind. But further inside the party organization, the air i...
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Changes seek more decorum in online conversationsJun 10, 2009 11:00 pm - One of the exciting advances that the World Wide Web enabled for the experience of reading a newspaper was the ability for readers to respond immediately to stories and ...
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Make hard choices, don't punish the innocent childrenJun 08, 2009 11:00 pm - On Tuesday, June 2, I received an e-mail marked "extremely urgent." It was from Mark Parr, who is the Executive Director of the Children's Advocacy Center of North and N...
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Immigration reform's hidden factorJun 08, 2009 11:00 pm - A month ago, before most Americans had ever heard of Sonia Sotomayor, I predicted to a group of friends that Latinos would get either a Supreme Court justice or immigrat...
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Words of perspective amid the precipitationJun 07, 2009 11:00 pm - When you have gone mano-a-mano with the Gambino crime family, slogged through the wreckage of an embassy bombing, pursued Osama bin Laden and Scooter Libby and strung up...
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Hey taxpayers, have we got a deal for youJun 06, 2009 11:00 pm - "I want to disabuse people of this notion that somehow we enjoy meddling in the private sector." President Obama said that in March, when the government already owned 8...
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Summer's biggest battle will be over health care reformJun 06, 2009 11:00 pm - While headlines talk about a fight over confirming Judge Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court that may never develop, a much bigger battle is about to break out over Pr...