Articles filed under Opinion
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Reflections in a glass ceilingJan 16, 2010 10:00 pm - Ask yourself: Who is likely to be the first woman president of the United States? Anyone? Anyone? Despite our assumption that a female president is inevitable, and likel...
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Off the cliff, but catching onJan 16, 2010 10:00 pm - You know the foreboding you feel while watching the steamier Greek tragedies, when dynasties are falling and sons are marrying their mothers and everyone is behaving bad...
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The falling doctrine of global warmingJan 14, 2010 10:00 pm - PORSTEWART, NORTHERN IRELAND - A familiar philosophical question goes like this: If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? Her...
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A rock on the health care roadJan 13, 2010 10:00 pm - Although Democrats think their health care legislation faces smooth sailing to implementation, there is a rock dead ahead - a constitutional challenge to the legislation...
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The British (elections) are comingJan 12, 2010 10:00 pm - BELFAST, NORTHERN IRELAND - The new year kicked-off an election campaign for prime minister of the United Kingdom with a series of soap opera events that grabbed headlin...
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The awakening of awarenessJan 12, 2010 10:00 pm - To the columnist's obligation to provide a 10-best list of 2009 films, I punt by offering just one. It is "The Baader Meinhof Complex," which Anthony Lane, the film crit...
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Unchained Dodd rides into finance reformJan 11, 2010 10:00 pm - With polls showing that Connecticut Sen. Chris Dodd would probably lose to most everyone running against him, the Democrat's decision not to seek re-election is a relief...
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The high price of bravadoJan 11, 2010 10:00 pm - As we have seen, bravado is not exclusive to any political party. Republicans and Democrats can both get carried away and say things they'll later have trouble backing u...
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The Gitmo obsessionJan 10, 2010 10:00 pm - Nigerian would-be bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was indicted by a Michigan grand jury for attempted murder and sundry other criminal charges. The day before, the Stat...
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Golden no longerJan 09, 2010 10:00 pm - Dalton Trumbo (1905-1976) was a hero to the American left, partly because of his 1939 anti-war novel "Johnny Got His Gun." Trumbo's title modified the lyric "Johnny get ...