Articles filed under Commentary
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Absurdly playing 'American card' against ObamaAug 18, 2008 11:00 pm - SAN DIEGO - While vacationing in his native Hawaii, Barack Obama said he wanted to enjoy some local cuisine - a plate lunch, shave ice, the noodle dish Zip Min - and rel...
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McCain strong, Obama weak, on RussiaAug 18, 2008 11:00 pm - Russia's invasion of Georgia on the pretext of "protecting" Russian peacekeepers stationed in the separatist enclave of South Ossetia and ending the "ethnic cleansing" o...
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Setting stage for Obama-Clinton ticket?Aug 17, 2008 11:00 pm - Paul Green is Director of the Institute for Politics and Arthur Rubloff Professor of Policy Issues at Roosevelt University Chicago and Schaumburg The Democratic Nat...
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Needed reforms in national security systemAug 12, 2008 11:00 pm - Defense Secretary Bob Gates has been talking recently about how to rebuild America's national-security architecture so it fits the 21st century. The next president shoul...
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Voters need both McCain, Obama to stop the snipingAug 11, 2008 11:00 pm - In the time they served together in the U.S. Senate, John McCain and Barack Obama developed neither a friendship nor an intense dislike. They entered this campaign as re...
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Georgian crisis elevates presidential raceAug 11, 2008 11:00 pm - Asked in 1957 what would determine his government's course, Harold Macmillan, Britain's new prime minister, replied, "Events, dear boy, events." Now, into America's triv...
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Presidential race has to get back on the high roadAug 07, 2008 11:00 pm - The first question I asked John McCain and then Barack Obama was: How do you feel about the tone and direction of the campaign so far? No surprise. Both men pronounced t...
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Democrats out of touch on energy policyAug 07, 2008 11:00 pm - Let's see: housing meltdown, credit crunch, oil shock not seen since the 1970s. The economy is slowing, unemployment growing and inflation increasing. It's the sixth yea...
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Even simple apostrophe can be complicatedAug 06, 2008 11:00 pm - A thoughtful reader recently wondered in an e-mail correspondence how our writers distinguish the punctuation in such phrases as Cubs' season and Cubs GM Jim Hendry or W...
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Still prefer to warm up to a good bookAug 06, 2008 11:00 pm - BOULDER, Colo. - On an average day when I am here, I amble over to the Boulder Book Store. I often just browse - it's a very good bookstore - and sometimes I buy somethi...