Articles filed under Opinion
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What happened to Trayvon Martin?Apr 09, 2012 5:00 am - What happened to Trayvon Martin? The short answer: I don’t know. I know that he was shot by George Zimmerman while wearing a hoodie and carrying Skittles. No weapons of ...
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The killing fields of childhoodApr 08, 2012 5:00 am - MONGU, Zambia — In a global anti-malaria movement I saw begin in Oval Office meetings and international summits, Mongu is at the end of a very long road. Located in west...
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COD-faculty dispute takes on a life of its ownApr 08, 2012 5:00 am - Early this year, I relayed the story of how I suggested to group of suburban school superintendents many years ago that contract talks between the administration and fac...
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Closing young Americans’ mindsApr 08, 2012 5:00 am - Let me apologize for the language I’m about to employ in this column. It’s not every day that I feel so strongly about something that I have to use so many controversial...
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Romney veep pick? A heavy hitterApr 07, 2012 4:14 pm - Barack Obama’s intellectual sociopathy — his often breezy and sometimes loutish indifference to truth — should no longer startle. It should, however, influence Mitt Romn...
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He’ll still be the Mitt we knowApr 05, 2012 2:40 pm - The problem for Mitt Romney, assuming he eventually wins the GOP nomination, is that a general election campaign isn’t really like an Etch a Sketch. Alas, traces from th...
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The drug legalization dilemmaApr 05, 2012 5:00 am - The human nervous system interacts in pleasing and addictive ways with certain molecules derived from some plants, which is why humans may have developed beer before the...
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Does Romney Have a Home?Apr 03, 2012 5:00 am - Mitt Romney has three houses. The former Massachusetts governor would like to do a $12 million “fix-up” on one of them, a beachfront property in La Jolla, Calif. The pla...
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Justice in Florida must wait for the factsApr 03, 2012 5:00 am - There are so many appalling aspects to the Trayvon Martin case that it’s hard to find a permanent home for outrage. Most appalling, obviously, is the fatal shooting of ...
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The price if health care is overturnedApr 03, 2012 5:00 am - In arguments before the Supreme Court this week, the Obama administration might have done just enough to keep the Affordable Care Act from being ruled unconstitutional. ...