Articles filed under Opinion
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‘Cool’ cities are not necessarily warmDec 29, 2011 4:00 am - The soft economy has left lots of Americans in place, whether they want to be or not. That would include the most mobile group, young people. But to the extent that adul...
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Latinos in the newsDec 28, 2011 4:00 am - As I look back on 2011, I’d say the most memorable headlines concerning Hispanics fell under the “made us look bad” category. As in, I saw a negative news story attached...
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Europe’s irrepressible conflictDec 28, 2011 4:00 am - Oh, how I love humanity, With love so pure and pringlish, And how I hate the horrid French, Who never will be English! #8212; G.K. Chesterton Under ...
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As this end nears, guard your checkbookDec 27, 2011 11:00 pm - According to the Mayan “long count” calendar, the final day on Earth is less than a year away, on Dec. 21, 2012. While we wait to see if that apocalypse occurs, a more r...
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Realities on the road to the nominationDec 27, 2011 4:00 am - The Gingrich balloon is leaking air. He is beginning to look more and more like Howard Dean. The latest Rasmussen caucus poll shows him dropping three points behind Mitt...
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The greatest gift for the unemployedDec 26, 2011 5:00 am - To many rational economists, holiday gift-giving is “an orgy of wealth-destruction,” writes Dan Ariely in The Wall Street Journal. A behavioral economist at Duke Univers...
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Have a politically correct holiday season!Dec 26, 2011 5:00 am - Here we are, uncomfortably sandwiched between Christmas and New Year’s Eve, which, according to top officials at PC Police Headquarters, are the two most politically inc...
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The GOP’s payroll tax debacleDec 26, 2011 5:00 am - Now that Congress appears finally to have reached a compromise on what must be one of the worst pieces of legislation in years — the temporary payroll tax holiday extens...
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The case for wonderDec 25, 2011 5:08 am - The God particle — really the Higgs boson — still resists confirmation, though scientists at the Large Hadron Collider recently reported “tantalizing hints” of its exist...
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Remember the grieving at ChristmasDec 25, 2011 4:00 am - “There’s a grief that can’t be spoken. There’s a pain goes on and on. Empty chairs at empty tables Now my friends are dead and gone.” -- Marius, from the musical “Les Mi...