Articles filed under Opinion
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World War II is an example of a war that had to be foughtApr 05, 2008 11:00 pm - Nicholson Baker, a supremely talented novelist, has written a surprising book of nonfiction titled "Human Smoke." It is composed primarily of snippets taken from contemp...
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King's enduring legacy should make all Americans proudApr 03, 2008 11:00 pm - Certain events imprint the mind with images time cannot erase. People of one generation recall where they were when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. People of another r...
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A side to Martin Luther King rarely revealed in tributesApr 01, 2008 11:00 pm - Forty years since the death of Martin Luther King Jr.? Has it been so short a time? In the four decades since the assassination in Memphis on April 4, 1968, the nation ...
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Obama passes a test of leadership with both candor, graceMar 20, 2008 11:00 pm - Last August, during an appearance before the National Association of Black Journalists, Barack Obama was asked whether he'd lead the nation in a "conversation about race...
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Absurd ruling against viable option of home schoolingMar 18, 2008 11:00 pm - There is a lot to criticize in an outrageous California appellate court decision that threatens to outlaw home schooling in the state. But there are also a few things wo...
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Main Street anxiously awaits outcome of Fed rescue of Bear StearnsMar 18, 2008 11:00 pm - The Federal Reserve decided last weekend in the inferno of the financial crisis that Wall Street's major players -- even a smallish and brutish one, Bear Stearns -- are ...
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Bush's lame-duck status could impede foreign policyMar 17, 2008 11:00 pm - President Bush seems ready to move back to Texas. There he was singing a jolly farewell at the Gridiron Club dinner recently, a fancy gathering for journalists and thei...
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Obama's right to pressure Clinton to release documentsMar 11, 2008 11:00 pm - The campaign manager for Sen. Barack Obama has a point. David Plouffe wants Hillary Clinton to release her income tax returns for the last several years and couple that ...
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Pressure's on Rice to show progress in Middle East peaceMar 11, 2008 11:00 pm - The Annapolis peace conference last November was a good moment for Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. She seemed to be getting serious, finally, about using American d...
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Problematic issue of what to do about the embargo on CubaMar 10, 2008 11:00 pm - On Dec. 29, 1962, 11 months before he was murdered by an advocate for Fidel Castro's regime (Lee Harvey Oswald had distributed propaganda on a New Orleans street for the...