Articles filed under Opinion
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Scott Brown no shoe-in for re-electionAug 30, 2011 5:02 am - When Scott Brown was elected U.S. senator from Massachusetts in a special election last year, Republicans rejoiced. They had wrested the Senate seat held by the late lib...
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Congo’s rule by the ruthlessAug 30, 2011 5:02 am - GOMA, Democratic Republic of the Congo — Gen. Bosco Ntaganda is a familiar figure around town, dining at the Le Chalet restaurant, playing tennis on Sunday at the Hotel ...
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Stereotypes and the Strauss-Kahn caseAug 29, 2011 5:04 am - Ladieeees and gentlemen: As one of the year’s greatest media circuses on earth draws to a close, please direct your attention to the center ring to gape at one of th...
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King, in word and stoneAug 29, 2011 5:04 am - It is one of the enduring mysteries of American history — so near-providential as to give the most hardened atheist pause — that it should have produced, at every hinge ...
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Sharia law and the future of LibyaAug 28, 2011 5:00 am - Name a single Arab or Islamic state, which, after a revolution that has overthrown a dictator, came to embrace political pluralism, religious tolerance and equal rights ...
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MLK’s vision of justiceAug 28, 2011 5:00 am - As the nation honors the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. with a stirring new memorial on the National Mall, let’s not obscure one of his most important messages in a fog of ...
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The killing at the cornerAug 26, 2011 12:00 am - When I drove by my corner grocery store last Sunday, the crime tape had already gone up and half a dozen police cars were parked in front. By the time I drove back home ...
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Liberals’ Wisconsin WaterlooAug 26, 2011 12:00 am - MADISON, Wis. — The residues of liberalism’s Wisconsin Woodstock — 1960s radicalism redux: operatic lamentations, theatrical demonstrations and electoral futilities — ar...
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‘Enforcement’ of immigration laws already hereAug 25, 2011 5:00 am - Have you noticed that our immigration laws are finally being enforced? That illegal immigration is way down? That employers hiring undocumented workers are finally being...
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Why juvenile offenders need ‘aftercare’Aug 25, 2011 12:00 am - The heart-wrenching Daily Herald series recounting the 2008 attack on Elgin High School teacher Carolyn Gilbert has taken its readers to places few of us can imagine and...