Articles filed under Opinion
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The president is on hold . . . hello? hello?Sep 06, 2011 5:00 am - What if the president gave a major speech and no one heard it? Not a likely scenario, yet this was the question in play for several days as President Obama requested an...
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Beware of easy ‘fixes’ for entitlement programsSep 06, 2011 5:00 am - Please, everyone, stop monkeying around with Social Security and Medicare. We mean you, Republicans, and you, Democrats. No one’s saying that Social Security can’t be sl...
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Say it ain’t so, AlecSep 06, 2011 12:00 am - Alec Baldwin has a girlfriend. Hardly a headline, except for the fact that yoga instructor Hilaria Thomas is 26 years younger. Baldwin is a heartthrob for the fifty-som...
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The best show in townSep 06, 2011 12:00 am - In that fleeting interval between earthquake/hurricane and the president’s 57th (or so) major national address next Thursday, I can finally devote a summer column to the...
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The progressives’ freedom agendaSep 06, 2011 12:00 am - The third week in July, Republican Gov. Rick Perry said that the U.S. Constitution — whose 10th Amendment limits federal power — gives states the right to decide on such...
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The tide and Marco RubioSep 02, 2011 5:00 am - In my high school days before sex and environmental education and the general dumbing down of the population, memorization of some Shakespeare was expected in Miss Kauff...
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‘Purple’ Colorado brews up a leaderSep 01, 2011 5:00 am - DENVER — “Beer,” said Benjamin Franklin, who knew a thing or two about pleasure, “is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.” If so, perhaps He wanted J...
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Wide, interesting variety etched on face of the suburbsSep 01, 2011 5:00 am - Just who are we in the suburbs? We’re often portrayed in monotone. Written off as bland vanilla. Beige. Banal. Colorless. Odorless. Tasteless. The newspaper tells a dif...
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Our interests to interveneAug 31, 2011 5:00 am - In 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt named an obscure history professor, William E. Dodd, as ambassador to Germany. Dodd was a principled but prosaic man, whose gift to popula...
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Planet of the godlyAug 31, 2011 5:00 am - Rick Perry’s rapid lead over previous Republican front-runner Mitt Romney was predictable. But it is not a good sign for Republicans hoping to reclaim the White House an...