Articles filed under Opinion
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Keep it civil, yes, but don't keep silentJan 15, 2011 12:00 am - The powerful elegy that President Obama delivered in Tucson was a big step toward his long-held goal of transforming the nation's choleric and dysfunctional political cu...
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A second look at ObamaJan 12, 2011 10:00 pm - Members of the White House staff are extensions of a president's will, and also shape that will over time. They can either amplify or repress his enthusiasms; feed his b...
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Oh, for the rare story with a happy endingJan 12, 2011 10:00 pm - Oftentimes, the news we come across is not so good. Sometimes, though, it's good. And, every once in a blue moon, the news starts out bad and ends up good. An example of...
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The charlatans' response to murdersJan 11, 2011 10:00 pm - It would be merciful if, when tragedies such as Tucson's occur, there were a moratorium on sociology. But respites from half-baked explanations, often serving political ...
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A necessary anonymity in the public spotlightJan 11, 2011 10:00 pm - Quick. Can you name the person who went on a shooting rampage at Virginia Tech? The man who killed five students at Northern Illinois University? The men who terrorized ...
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Sanitizing Twain is a teacher's shameJan 10, 2011 10:00 pm - NEW YORK — While sorting through the perennial lip-pursing tempest about a certain word in Mark Twain's “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” — the “N-word,” as we now sa...
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Death and our insane handgun lawsJan 10, 2011 10:00 pm - I had a teacher in college who used to ask, Who discovered America? He would offer some choices. They were Amerigo Vespucci, Christopher Columbus or the Nina, the Pinta ...
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Mystery of the missing millionairesJan 09, 2011 10:00 pm - A daffy Wall Street Journal editorial about the “vanishing millionaires” of Oregon lit a spark in a fairly humorless week. It offers the usual boilerplate about the rich...
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Action is real test in Constitution debateJan 09, 2011 10:00 pm - For decades, Democrats and Republicans fought over who owns the American flag. Now they're fighting over who owns the Constitution. The flag debates began during the Vie...
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Daley choice moves Obama in right wayJan 08, 2011 10:00 pm - For a while there, I was worried that Barack Obama might actually be content to be a one-term president so long as he could say he accomplished what he set out to do. I...