Articles filed under Opinion
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Life in prison for child criminals?Nov 30, 2009 10:00 pm - The United States Supreme Court this month heard arguments in a case that could decide whether a child who commits a crime should be sentenced in some circumstances to l...
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Fighting extremism with civilityNov 30, 2009 10:00 pm - The most surprising and disappointing aspect of our politics is how little pushback there has been against the vile, extremist rhetoric that has characterized such a lar...
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Rocky Mountain medical highNov 28, 2009 10:00 pm - DENVER - Inside the green neon sign, which is shaped like a marijuana leaf, is a red cross. The cross serves the fiction that most transactions in the store - which is w...
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Back in the U.S.S.A.Nov 26, 2009 10:00 pm - Not all revolutions begin in the streets with tanks and guns. Some advance slowly, almost imperceptibly, until a nation is transformed and the public realizes too late t...
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A backlash of mistrustNov 26, 2009 10:00 pm - Is there such a thing as communications malpractice? If so, we might consider the case of Women v. the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. I'm not talking about medical...
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You can go home againNov 24, 2009 10:00 pm - In the past, I've advised undocumented immigrants from Mexico to learn English, become legal, value education, refuse handouts, resist entitlement, and culturally assimi...
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Missing Barack ObamaNov 24, 2009 10:00 pm - In my set, I am known as the guy who always had some reservations about Barack Obama. Sure, I supported him in the primaries against Hillary Clinton and I voted for him,...
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Travesty in New YorkNov 23, 2009 10:00 pm - For late-19th-century anarchists, terrorism was the "propaganda of the deed." And the most successful propaganda-by-deed in history was 9/11 - not just the most destruct...
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Hating your cake and eating it, tooNov 23, 2009 10:00 pm - COLUMBIA, S.C. - In town to give a talk on civility, I was surrounded by women who wondered what I thought of Sarah Palin's recent Newsweek cover. "Why aren't women comi...
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Oil's expanding frontiersNov 21, 2009 10:00 pm - What city contributed most to the making of the modern world? The Paris of the Enlightenment and then of Napoleon, pioneer of mass armies and nationalist statism? London...