Articles filed under Opinion
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Cool, collected scores after costly fumbleOct 05, 2008 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON - Krauthammer's Hail Mary Rule: You get only two per game. John McCain, unfortunately, has already thrown three. The first was his bet on the surge, a deep pa...
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McCain would be foolish to keep Palin hiddenOct 04, 2008 11:00 pm - ST. LOUIS - The McCain campaign, perhaps fearful of the reviews Sarah Palin would receive for her part in Thursday night's debate here, deployed a trio of almost-vice-pr...
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Palin was terrific, but is she ready?Oct 04, 2008 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON - What did they do with the other Sarah Palin? I mean the one who bases foreign policy experience on the proximity of Russia to Alaska and who speaks cutely a...
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Palin should step aside to save McCainSep 26, 2008 11:00 pm - Editor's note: Columnist Kathleen Parker's call for Sarah Palin to step down has created a firestorm of debate. This is the column, which appeared Friday in "The Nat...
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Market forces alone won't solve economic crisisSep 25, 2008 11:00 pm - In times like these, when even the most sober analysts are wondering if we're heading for another Great Depression, it's wise to dust off John Maynard Keynes' 1936 treat...
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CN acquisition foes unfairly attackedSep 15, 2008 11:00 pm - As the Chicago-area public hearings on the Canadian National Railway Co.'s proposed acquisition of the Elgin Joliet and Eastern Railway wound down last week, opponents o...
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GOP platform makes private decisions a public issueSep 04, 2008 11:00 pm - You gotta love this campaign. No sooner does the curtain come crashing down on one climactic moment than up it goes on another. The Democrats choose NoDrama Obama and th...
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Are bad words related to success of newspapers?Sep 03, 2008 11:00 pm - Today's challenge: To talk about language we don't use in the Daily Herald without using the language. This could be interesting. I recently engaged in a polite but test...
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Microscope just starting to focus on PalinSep 02, 2008 11:00 pm - ST. PAUL, Minn. - Tom Donilon, the Washington lawyer who did the delegate-counting for Jimmy Carter in 1980, has a bit of practical wisdom that he has offered over the y...
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Saturation patrols work better to stop drunken driversAug 30, 2008 11:00 pm - Labor Day, as the name suggests, celebrates our country's labor force. Over the holiday weekend, millions of hard-working Americans will take that theme to heart by doin...