Articles filed under Opinion
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Leviathan on a government fishing expeditionJul 30, 2012 11:34 am - SAN FRANCISCO — The huge humpback whale whose friendliness precipitated a surreal seven-year — so far — federal hunt for criminality surely did not feel put upon. Nevert...
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Where Is Baltimore?Jul 30, 2012 5:00 am - I did something so unusual last week as to trigger the “fraud” section at my credit card company to freeze my account. No, I didn't walk into a Tiffany's somewhere and t...
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Romney -- not innocents -- abroadJul 29, 2012 5:00 am - A generation ago, it was the three I’s. A presidential challenger’s obligatory foreign trip meant Ireland, Italy and Israel. Mitt Romney’s itinerary is slightly differen...
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Badger Cottage versus Toad HallJul 26, 2012 10:14 am - Sometimes you need children to set you straight. They are so attuned to what they like and what feels good. The status-value of things doesn’t register as much as with a...
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Splitting hairs in a Texas raceJul 26, 2012 10:14 am - The men are so near to each other in all their convictions and theories of life that nothing is left to them but personal competition for the doing of the thing that is ...
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Amid campaign heat, be vigilant to keep your coolJul 26, 2012 5:00 am - Today I want to pick up on a theme the Daily Herald raised a little more than two weeks ago with an editorial titled “Duckworth, Walsh and the politics of gotcha.” In th...
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Gun policy's slippery slopeJul 25, 2012 11:00 pm - Following the Aurora shooting, some gun control supporters began immediately hunting through the wreckage for scraps of political advantage. It showed all the sensitivit...
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Sally Ride's determination changed the worldJul 25, 2012 11:00 pm - Sally Ride did not go into space alone in 1983. She carried with her the hopes and dreams of a generation of women who were trying to escape the bounds of tradition in t...
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Did the state make you great?Jul 25, 2012 1:00 am - “If you’ve got a business — you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.” -- Barack Obama, Roanoke, Va., July 13 And who might that somebody else be? Governmen...
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What the tax returns won’t tell usJul 24, 2012 11:48 am - To paraphrase Rhett Butler, I don’t care if Mitt Romney releases more of his tax returns. I expect to learn nothing from them, aside from the fact that he is very rich a...