Articles filed under Opinion
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Stewart smacks the wrong messengerMar 17, 2009 11:00 pm - What Jon Stewart needs is Jon Stewart. He could use a droll comedian to temper his ferocity and correct him when he's wrong, as he was about the financial media, particu...
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Beware: Don't go back to the bubble that burstMar 17, 2009 11:00 pm - Leaders of the Group of 20 are talking about creating a new architecture for the imploding world economy. But there's a big risk that their crisis summit in London three...
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Obama critics, friends signal honeymoon's endMar 16, 2009 11:00 pm - Two months into his presidency, it is far too soon to make any judgments about Barack Obama's prospects. All we really know is that he has assembled the rudiments of an ...
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To use embryos without limit is wrongMar 16, 2009 11:00 pm - Last week, the White House invited me to a signing ceremony to overturn the Bush (43) executive order on stem cell research. I assume this was because I have long argued...
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Rushbo is no gift to women or GOPMar 14, 2009 11:00 pm - I was going to give this a good leaving alone. But there I was flying home from a mellow family visit when El Rushbo filled - and I do mean filled - the screen before m...
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Stop this phony war or risk a real oneMar 12, 2009 11:00 pm - For all the legislative commotion surrounding the economic crisis, we are still living in the equivalent of "the phony war" of 1939 and 1940. War has been declared on th...
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Keeping it real in storm of bad economic reportsMar 11, 2009 11:00 pm - In reporting on the Great Recession of 2009, Chicken Little and Pollyanna Whittier are more than the stuff of children's fairy tales. They are relevant, thought-provokin...
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Hands-on school chief has cash for school reformMar 09, 2009 11:00 pm - Arne Duncan has an opportunity to do more for a generation of youngsters than any education secretary in history, and my strong sense is that he will make the most of it...
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Dueling messiahs dwarf real GOPMar 07, 2009 10:00 pm - It's been a win-win the past few days for Democratic and Republican loyalists, but what about the rest of us? You know. Americans who don't think that spending nonexiste...
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A cautionary tale of letter writing and politicsMar 05, 2009 10:00 pm - May I direct your attention to a Fence Post letter appearing elsewhere on this page? It's headlined, "Response to Herald story on District 204." Submitted by four school...