Articles filed under Opinion
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Is it time to take video replay cameras to the old ball game?Jun 24, 2008 11:00 pm - "Baseball is the only thing besides the paper clip that hasn't changed." -- Bill Veeck One must say it ain't so. Think of the designated hitter, which illustrates why...
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Just maybe oil had something to do with Iraq War after allJun 23, 2008 11:00 pm - A consortium of Western oil companies - the very definition of Big Oil - is on the verge of receiving no-bid contracts in Iraq, giving them access to one of the most sou...
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Strong foreign policy leadership without bitter partisanshipJun 19, 2008 11:00 pm - Judging by the rhetoric coming out of the Obama and McCain campaigns this week, the United States is fated to endure another four years of bitter foreign policy partisan...
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When the system works against being a good fatherJun 18, 2008 11:00 pm - Barack Obama's recent call for responsible fatherhood is welcome, overdue -- and misleadingly incomplete. Not all fathers are trying to be good dads, it goes without sa...
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Russert was not only a great journalist, but also a great guyJun 17, 2008 11:00 pm - Washington is mourning the death of Tim Russert, but the loss resonates far beyond the Potomac. I only met Russert, the moderator of NBC's "Meet the Press," once. It wa...
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McCain should take aim at Democrats' defeatist war policyJun 12, 2008 11:00 pm - In his St. Paul victory speech, Barack Obama pledged again to pull out of Iraq. Rather than "continue a policy in Iraq that asks everything of our brave men and women in...
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U.S. dealing with cagey adversary in Iran's military leaderJun 10, 2008 11:00 pm - Let's try for a moment to put ourselves in the mind of Brig. Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the commander of the Quds Force of Iran's Revolutionary Guard. For it is the soft-spo...
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U.S. losing power to impose its solutions on Middle EastJun 03, 2008 11:00 pm - What happens when a superpower becomes preoccupied by a costly war and loses some of its ability to coerce friends and enemies toward the outcomes it favors? We're seein...
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More than al-Qaida to worry about in the fight against terrorismMay 26, 2008 11:00 pm - At the headquarters of the National Counterterrorism Center, located in a bland office park in Northern Virginia, there's a unit called the "strategic analytical group" ...
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The last of the doughboys from World War IMay 25, 2008 11:00 pm - CHARLES TOWN, W.Va. -- Numbers come precisely from the agile mind and nimble tongue of Frank Buckles, who seems bemused to say that 4,734,991 Americans served in the mil...