Articles filed under Opinion
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Prince of the wagging fingerJun 15, 2011 12:00 am - As best I can recall, I first met Saudi Arabia’s Prince Turki al-Faisal at a private home in Washington years ago. I found him stern and humorless, sometimes even bitter...
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A chill pill is what we needJun 14, 2011 12:00 am - I was on my way to the hospital this morning to sit in the waiting room for six or eight hours while a family member was having surgery when I realized I had no gas. Run...
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Palin versus the pressJun 14, 2011 12:00 am - It was probably not the intention of liberal investigative journalists to expose Sarah Palin as a figure far more sympathetic than her public image. Twenty-four thousand...
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Anthony Weiner, you’re no Patrick KennedyJun 13, 2011 12:00 am - Sunday’s Tony Awards program reminds us that new media didn’t invent the egotist who doesn’t know when to exit. Live theater is millennia old, and one awardee hogged so ...
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In defense of flip-flopperyJun 13, 2011 12:00 am - Here we go all over again. Read my lips and bring ’em on. It’s the economy, stupid. Gotcha! Which is to say, the stupid season is upon us. Same story, same characters, ...
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Truth in sentencing drains Illinois fundsJun 13, 2011 12:00 am - Results of a study of the truth-in-sentencing law have been sent to every senator and representative in the state of Illinois. Truth in sentencing costs taxpayers a grea...
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Got (non-flavored) milk?Jun 12, 2011 12:00 am - Chocolate milk is my sworn enemy. French toast sticks drowning in fake maple syrup and sugary cereals are, too. But let’s start with the milk. White milk, despite being...
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Is it incompetence? Or ideology?Jun 12, 2011 12:00 am - The Republicans swept November’s midterm election by making it highly ideological, a referendum on two years of hyperliberalism — of arrogant, overreaching, intrusive go...
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Declare victory in Afghanistan and leaveJun 11, 2011 12:00 am - Slender threads of hope are nice but do not constitute a plan. Nor do they justify continuing to pour American lives and resources into the bottomless pit of Afghanistan...
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Confused on immigrationJun 09, 2011 11:00 pm - Last month, President Obama went to El Paso, Texas, to address the issue of immigration reform and reminded his audience that moving the debate forward “ultimately has t...