Articles filed under Opinion
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Bankruptcy, not bailout, pleaseApr 06, 2009 11:00 pm - When I was around 12, I was a paperboy for the now-defunct Long Island Press. One Thursday, when the paper was heavy with shopping inserts, a storm hit, and my papers an...
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Raise the curtain on Middle East with cautionApr 05, 2009 11:00 pm - The Obama administration is preparing the stage for a broad theater of Middle East diplomacy stretching from the Palestinians to Syria to Iran. It's a supremely ambitiou...
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Your brain might work better on 'pause'Apr 02, 2009 11:00 pm - What if everybody just took a timeout? Now there's a concept for a TMI-addled nation. It isn't only Too Much Information, but the pitch and tenor of delivery that have u...
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The garden of eatin' takes root at White HouseMar 30, 2009 11:00 pm - You have to admit that this gives new meaning to the idea of a "shovel-ready project." There are now 1,100 square feet on the South Lawn of the White House being transfo...
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Move over, John. Here's Meghan.Mar 29, 2009 11:00 pm - The GOP's identity crisis just got more interesting with the recent media splash of Meghan McCain, daughter of the senator who did not become president. Young McCain, w...
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Don't let March Mad-ness ruleMar 28, 2009 11:00 pm - I took a one-week vacation from this column and the stock market went crazy. The letters AIG were translated into SOS, and the House of Representatives, responding to an...
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Some good news straight from down underMar 26, 2009 11:00 pm - Let's take a break from gloom and doom, and consider some bits of good news about the global economy, as seen by Kevin Rudd, the prime minister of Australia. He's visiti...
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What kind of change is this? Not.Mar 25, 2009 11:00 pm - It is still early, not even two-thirds of the way through the vaunted 100 days, and we are all admonished not to make judgments or dire predictions. Yet enough has been ...
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Old Baby Boomers still spur changeMar 22, 2009 11:00 pm - Let me see if I have it right: Older Americans ought to keep working in order to lighten the burden of Social Security and assorted benefits on younger generations. Olde...
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Foundering father better figure it outMar 21, 2009 11:00 pm - What a relief to hear Barack Obama tell a California audience the other day: "I am the president of the United States of America." Who knew?! Lately, it's been hard to t...