Articles filed under Opinion
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Making capitalism work for allNov 21, 2012 4:00 am - It is a particularly bad election when a party’s principal source of confidence is also its main form of a self-deception. Republicans generally believed that a presiden...
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Mexico’s own immigration debateNov 20, 2012 4:00 am - MEXICO CITY — If you think the debate over immigration from Mexico into the United States is complicated, just take a trip south of the border and look at it from that s...
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An officer and a gentlemanNov 20, 2012 4:00 am - Something very wrong has just gone down. It’s played out so much like a soap opera, for those following the twists and turns of who sent whom a shirtless photo, but at i...
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Give consumer protection bureau a day in courtNov 19, 2012 4:00 am - There can be unseemly exposure of the mind as well as of the body, as the progressive mind is exposed in the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a creature of the laby...
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Susan Rice’s tarnished resumeNov 19, 2012 4:00 am - President Obama had a rare “bring-it-on moment” when ABC News’ Jonathan Karl asked him about threats by Republican Sens. John McCain and Lindsey Graham to block confirma...
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Absent-minded editor glad staff has his backNov 18, 2012 4:00 am - The news release came in late Wednesday afternoon, announcing that a man from Glen Ellyn had won a $1 million lottery drawing. As a veteran news editor, I knew exactly w...
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The toxic allianceNov 18, 2012 4:00 am - The Catholic Church — a politically and ethnically sprawling institution — has no natural home on the American ideological spectrum. Neither major party combines moral c...
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Give back to Mexico — for what?Nov 16, 2012 4:00 am - MEXICO CITY — In the United States, some on the nativist fringe suspect that Mexican-Americans are reconquistas. As if we’re agents of the Mexican government working qu...
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They led us to the cliff but can’t make us jumpNov 16, 2012 4:00 am - The Tea Party now has its own news site. Based at the Venetian Resort in Las Vegas, the Tea Party News Network describes itself as “the only trusted news source.” It foc...
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GOP’s problems were bigger than just Candy and SandyNov 14, 2012 5:33 pm - The 2012 presidential election is at last over. And despite all of the political spinning, huge expenditures of money, media driven hoopla and an ongoing terrible econom...