Articles filed under Opinion
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No time to turn inwardDec 14, 2011 4:00 am - We are coming up on bad times. Nationalism is surging throughout Europe. In the Arab world, spring is suddenly winter and the sects, the tribes, the clans, the religious...
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Newt and The Donald a-courting goDec 13, 2011 4:00 am - Liberals and conservatives both seem obsessed with the behavior of “the 1 percent,” but there the similarity ends. Liberals seek to change the ways of the richest 1 perc...
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The strange buoyancy of Barack ObamaDec 13, 2011 4:00 am - In a season of curious political phenomena — Michele Bachmann’s unnerving stare, Herman Cain’s last-minute launch of “Women for Cain,” a planned debate hosted by a reali...
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The GOP's death wishDec 12, 2011 4:00 am - “Anybody but Mitt” has become a familiar mantra throughout the Republican primary campaign. It is also weird and self-defeating. Republicans apparently want to nominate...
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Fighting for the women of AfghanistanDec 12, 2011 4:00 am - Gulnaz is an Afghan woman who was raped. For reporting it, she was sentenced to three years in prison. Her baby — a child of the rape — cries in the background. Her puni...
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China’s future up in the airDec 11, 2011 4:00 am - HONG KONG — China has to find a way to continue its rapid growth without choking to death. Literally. When I landed in Beijing last week, the sky was a brownish miasma ...
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Regis, roadwork tip of iceberg for DH internDec 11, 2011 4:00 am - Pop quiz. Q. Name the legendary Daily Herald journalist who contributed to these sections of Friday’s print editions: News, Neighbor and Time out! A. It’s intern...
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Ron Paul as spoiler?Dec 11, 2011 4:00 am - On Oct. 12, 1948, the campaign train of Tom Dewey, Republican nominee against President Harry Truman, pulled into Beaucoup, Ill., where, from the rear platform, he would...
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What’s wrong about adulteryDec 09, 2011 4:00 am - We live in a bipolar culture. We allow ourselves to be drenched in sexual images in movies, on television and on the Internet and then defend First Amendment protection ...
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If it’s on paper, it’s more foreverDec 08, 2011 4:00 am - How many of you want your holiday greetings to arrive in the form of thick paper cards delivered by the United States Postal Service? Now, how many prefer your cheery wi...