Articles filed under Opinion
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In midst of covering tragedy, journalists do care about sourcesFeb 20, 2008 10:00 pm - Reporters and photographers play a role that goes beyond merely satisfying the public's curiosity about a shocking event. At times like these, news reporters aren't exac...
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Promises to help fund the war on terror are not being keptFeb 19, 2008 10:00 pm - Since 2001 when "the war on terror" began, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) reports $649.9 billion has been appropriated for Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduri...
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Israelis need relief from daily rain of treacherous rocketsFeb 18, 2008 10:00 pm - SDEROT, Israel -- Rockets launched from the nearby Gaza Strip fall here almost daily. These Qassams are crude devices that hardly ever kill people, although they have, a...
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Israelis need relief from daily rain of treacherous rocketsFeb 18, 2008 10:00 pm - SDEROT, Israel -- Rockets launched from the nearby Gaza Strip fall here almost daily. These Qassams are crude devices that hardly ever kill people, although they have, a...
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Refreshing response to voter disgust with partisan gridlockFeb 14, 2008 10:00 pm - The voters' message is getting through, not only in settling the fights for the Republican and Democratic nominations but in changing the mind-set of Washington. The cl...
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Peculiarities in the GOP, Democratic presidential racesFeb 14, 2008 10:00 pm - With metronomic regularity the Clintons say things that remind voters of the aesthetic reason for recoiling from them. Aesthetic considerations even cause many Republica...
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Mexican leader's message to those who left for AmericaFeb 13, 2008 10:00 pm - Less than two years after taking office, Mexican President Felipe Calderon is getting mixed reviews from the Mexican people. On the one hand, he gets high marks for refo...
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Conservatives need to find a way to reinvent themselvesFeb 12, 2008 10:00 pm - This just in: Ronald Reagan is dead and he's not coming back. Now, can conservatives please move on? Reagan always spoke about the future and its possibilities. Today's...
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McCain can't take the risk of becoming a political opportunistFeb 12, 2008 10:00 pm - If John McCain's life is, as it sometimes seems, one of those old-time movie serials, the audience would now know that with the GOP presidential nomination within reach,...
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Progress being made in Iraq, Afghanistan on two separate frontsFeb 11, 2008 10:00 pm - Traveling in Iraq and Afghanistan in late January, I kept encountering two themes that cut across the usual U.S. political debate about these conflicts: The hard-nosed o...