Articles filed under Commentary
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Main Street anxiously awaits outcome of Fed rescue of Bear StearnsMar 18, 2008 11:00 pm - The Federal Reserve decided last weekend in the inferno of the financial crisis that Wall Street's major players -- even a smallish and brutish one, Bear Stearns -- are ...
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Bush's lame-duck status could impede foreign policyMar 17, 2008 11:00 pm - President Bush seems ready to move back to Texas. There he was singing a jolly farewell at the Gridiron Club dinner recently, a fancy gathering for journalists and thei...
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Obama's right to pressure Clinton to release documentsMar 11, 2008 11:00 pm - The campaign manager for Sen. Barack Obama has a point. David Plouffe wants Hillary Clinton to release her income tax returns for the last several years and couple that ...
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Pressure's on Rice to show progress in Middle East peaceMar 11, 2008 11:00 pm - The Annapolis peace conference last November was a good moment for Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. She seemed to be getting serious, finally, about using American d...
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Problematic issue of what to do about the embargo on CubaMar 10, 2008 11:00 pm - On Dec. 29, 1962, 11 months before he was murdered by an advocate for Fidel Castro's regime (Lee Harvey Oswald had distributed propaganda on a New Orleans street for the...
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Sorry, but even student journalists need bosses, tooMar 06, 2008 10:00 pm - Let me start by saying I have enormous respect for the accomplishments of the Central Times, the student-run newspaper at Naperville Central High School. More than once ...
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Too many obstacles in the way of securing the homelandMar 05, 2008 10:00 pm - The Department of Homeland Security celebrates its fifth birthday this week, and hopefully not with a bang. This has to be the only agency in government whose biggest ac...
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Clinton surges back as cracks appear in Obama campaignMar 05, 2008 10:00 pm - Last fall, long before the first vote was cast in the Democratic presidential contest, Rep. Rahm Emanuel of Illinois told me in an interview that he thought Barack Obama...
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Do we need background checks for house plant buyers?Mar 03, 2008 10:00 pm - The ricin poison found in a Las Vegas hotel room is so deadly that a speck the size of a pinhead could kill you. The hotel occupant is still unconscious in a hospital, b...
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Where the law can be enforced to deport illegal immigrantsMar 03, 2008 10:00 pm - The argument one hears most often for not enforcing illegal immigration laws is that we can't deport the estimated 12 million people already in this country. Maybe not, ...