Articles filed under Opinion
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Keeping tabs on taxpayer-backed ‘p-cards’Aug 02, 2011 12:00 am - We all know about credit cards and debit cards. Now, meet the “p-card”. In recent years, use of the p-card — procurement cards issued directly by government to employees...
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Green with tea party envyAug 02, 2011 12:00 am - I suffer from tea party envy. There is little about the actual party I like and there are some members I abhor, but I am jealous of its sense of purpose, its determinati...
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The great divideJul 31, 2011 5:00 am - We’re in the midst of a great four-year national debate on the size and reach of government, the future of the welfare state, indeed, the nature of the social contract b...
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The power of the Big IdeaJul 31, 2011 5:00 am - Those who would chronicle events in Washington can find no richer source of analogy and metaphor than the Three Stooges. These days, I’m thinking of the times when an ex...
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The tea fragger partyJul 31, 2011 3:00 am - Fragging: “To intentionally kill or wound (one’s superior officer, etc.), esp. with a hand grenade.” Take names. Remember them. The behavior of certain Republica...
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What the Oslo killer ‘wanted’ doesn’t matterJul 29, 2011 3:00 am - “What did the Oslo killer want?” asks one of many irritating headlines over the weekend. The Norwegian terrorist suspect, Anders Behring Breivik, called for a number of ...
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The strange death of domestic policyJul 29, 2011 3:00 am - This week the fiscal crisis was momentarily interrupted for a public service announcement. The Pew Research Center issued a report showing that the racial disparity in ...
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Stand by your manJul 28, 2011 12:00 am - The headlines on the Drudge Report make it sound worse than it is: “Blacks, liberals flee in droves.” And underneath: “Sanders (that’s Bernie Sanders, the Independent fr...
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Teachers learning the drillJul 28, 2011 12:00 am - An elite group of teachers across the country is finishing the last grueling days of a hard-core, brain-splitting, tear-inducing boot camp in science, technology, engine...
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Reporting skills play key role in news photographyJul 28, 2011 12:00 am - News stories are born in many different ways. Some just occur. Wars. Floods. Pestilence. Crimes, On rare occasions in Chicago, major professional sports championships. S...