Articles filed under Opinion
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Requiem for a school reformerOct 17, 2010 11:00 pm - It is instructive and infuriating that one of the country's top education reformers is out of a job. America's public schools have room for teachers who don't believe ...
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Your pre-election postmortemOct 16, 2010 11:00 pm - When the election is over, prizes and trophies and hosannas will be issued left and right. But why wait? As a public service, I present an infallibly prescient score car...
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Health care debate overrun with hypocrisyOct 13, 2010 11:00 pm - When government tells restaurant owners that they can't let customers smoke on their premises, that's the nanny state. When it fines motorcyclists for not wearing helmet...
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'Inside Job' should lead to a perp walkOct 13, 2010 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- If you haven't been humming tunes from “Les Miserables, you haven't seen “Inside Job, the new documentary about how our economic crisis evolved. The most fo...
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Rob Portman's good timingOct 12, 2010 11:00 pm - CLEVELAND — There is a pattern to the political life of Rob Portman, as he reflected over dinner the other night. It has brought him to the verge of victory in the Ohio ...
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Likability isn't the issue in our election decisionsOct 12, 2010 11:00 pm - “I kind of like him personally, Daily Herald Editor John Lampinen said in the midst of an editorial board discussion of candidates to endorse for election. “Actually, I ...
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Ghost of Carter realism haunts Obama's successOct 11, 2010 11:00 pm - Almost like an apparition, Jimmy Carter stalks Barack Obama. The former president has published yet another book, his 25th, which has been greeted with some scorn and pl...
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The president and the peril of overreachOct 11, 2010 11:00 pm - Promoting his new book, Jimmy Carter, whose version of Christianity allows ample scope for what some Christians consider the sin of pride, has been doing something at wh...
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The money race in CaliforniaOct 09, 2010 11:00 pm - If there were one contest Meg Whitman didn't need to win in her bid to become governor of California, it was the race to collect the most money from individuals and busi...
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Behind the alerts, the unknownsOct 09, 2010 11:00 pm - Terrorism “alerts like the one issued recently by the State Department for travel to Europe tend to be vague. Officials want to warn the public without tipping off their...