Articles filed under Opinion
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Leave pot-smoking decision to each adultJan 19, 2014 4:00 am - Everybody’s doing it — confessing their youthful, pot-smoking ways — so here goes. I don’t remember. Kidding, kidding. Anyone over 30 recognizes the adage: If you rememb...
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Selective finger-pointing unfair to MuslimsJan 17, 2014 4:00 am - One of the bigoted themes often promoted by the growing cottage industry of Muslim-bashers is that the increasing level of Islamophobia online and in the public arena is...
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Think critically, think depth when reading about pollsJan 16, 2014 2:51 pm - If it’s election season — and it is, with the March 18 primary barely more than 60 days away — it must be time for a public-opinion poll, and with it, this warning: read...
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Whatever else happens, the issue still is jobsJan 16, 2014 4:00 am - There was a lot to talk about when House Speaker John Boehner appeared before reporters recently for the first time since the holiday break. There are continuing fights ...
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What the boycotts tell IsraelJan 15, 2014 4:00 am - Yet another academic group is mulling censuring Israel. This time it is the Modern Language Association. Just recently, it was the American Studies Association, which ca...
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The coming test for ChristieJan 15, 2014 4:00 am - There is something inherently absurd about a political scandal resulting from an event that could also have been caused by a stray deer and a truck filled with watermelo...
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Unequal incomes is not the real problem hereJan 14, 2014 4:00 am - In politics, it’s all in how you say things. George Orwell knew what he was talking about when he described political language as “designed to make lies sound truthful ...
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For a new fight against povertyJan 12, 2014 4:00 am - Assessing the outcome of the War on Poverty — announced 50 years ago — has always been complicated by the hopes it initially inspired. After his election in 1964, Lyndon...
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Suburban weather drama: Fear of floods follows record coldJan 12, 2014 4:00 am - The idea germinated when the guy sitting next to me in the sauna, during the height of last week’s cold snap, mentioned the dramatic rescue. I think it was on a rural ro...
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Trust is a pillar on which government standsJan 10, 2014 4:00 pm - Of all the numbers thrown at us over the course of last year, one stands out for me. I hope we can avoid repeating it this year. That number is 12. It’s the percentage o...