Articles filed under Opinion
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This is the time to worry about IsraelJun 14, 2009 11:00 pm - Am I concerned, friends ask me quietly, after we all publicly praise President Obama's monumental Cairo speech. The friends are usually, but not always, Jewish. They are...
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Obama faces high stakes this fallJun 13, 2009 11:00 pm - It was probably inevitable that the elections for governor, taking place in November in New Jersey and Virginia, would be seen by many people outside those states as a r...
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Joke reveals something rotten in AmericaJun 13, 2009 11:00 pm - One thing we can conclude from David Letterman's bad Sarah Palin jokes: He hasn't flown commercial in a while. Letterman's "slutty flight attendant" remark about Palin w...
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What happened to questioning authority?Jun 11, 2009 11:00 pm - A criticism heard during the early years of the Bush administration was that the media were "in the tank" for Bush, fearing to question his foreign and domestic policies...
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Doing the identity dance - on crutchesJun 11, 2009 11:00 pm - Let us hope that Sonia Sotomayor's tumble on the way to Washington doesn't become a metaphor for her journey to the Supreme Court. For the moment, the broken ankle that ...
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How about a debate to cap off war of words?Jun 11, 2009 11:00 pm - May I direct your attention to Fence Post, found under the letters tab of the opinion Web page. Those letters are the latest salvos in a monthslong feud among leaders of...
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Palin problem an embarrassing display for GOPJun 10, 2009 11:00 pm - Sarah Palin, governor of Alaska and GOP "It" girl, can warm up the Republican base like a hot toddy in a duck blind. But further inside the party organization, the air i...
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Changes seek more decorum in online conversationsJun 10, 2009 11:00 pm - One of the exciting advances that the World Wide Web enabled for the experience of reading a newspaper was the ability for readers to respond immediately to stories and ...
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Make hard choices, don't punish the innocent childrenJun 08, 2009 11:00 pm - On Tuesday, June 2, I received an e-mail marked "extremely urgent." It was from Mark Parr, who is the Executive Director of the Children's Advocacy Center of North and N...
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Immigration reform's hidden factorJun 08, 2009 11:00 pm - A month ago, before most Americans had ever heard of Sonia Sotomayor, I predicted to a group of friends that Latinos would get either a Supreme Court justice or immigrat...