Articles filed under Opinion
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Lieberman should get credit for role passing health billDec 29, 2009 10:00 pm - Instead of vilifying Sen. Joe Lieberman, Democrats should be praising him for saving health care legislation from defeat. And liberal criticism of the Senate's health bi...
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A partial truce in the religious warsDec 28, 2009 10:00 pm - It is 2009's quiet story - quiet because it's about what didn't happen, which can be as important as what did. In this highly partisan year, we did not see a sharpening ...
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2009: The year of living fecklesslyDec 27, 2009 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON - On Tuesday, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad did not just reject President Obama's latest feckless floating nuclear deadline. He spat on it, declaring ...
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A warning Obama should heedDec 27, 2009 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON - On the day before Christmas, President Obama found two presents under his tree. One was the health care reform bill passed that morning by the Senate, a his...
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Quietly sizing up the last four decadesDec 26, 2009 10:00 pm - It is one of those moments when I feel like a time traveler. I look out the airplane window and watch a young woman on the tarmac directing our jet to its gate. As she w...
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The Grinch who stole immigration reformDec 26, 2009 10:00 pm - Just in time for the holidays, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has given Latino voters a valuable gift: clarity. So much of politics is masked in smoke and mirrors. If you co...
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The emptiness of double triumphsDec 26, 2009 10:00 pm - It was serendipitous to have almost simultaneous climaxes in Copenhagen and Congress. The former's accomplishment was indiscernible, the latter's was unsightly. It would...
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Telling my daughter the truth about SantaDec 24, 2009 10:00 pm - When my daughter was 4 she lost her most beloved stuffed animal, Blue Bear. We spent the day at a pumpkin patch, then went to see a movie. We have him in all the pumpkin...
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Jesus the socialistDec 24, 2009 10:00 pm - Apparently not content with his congressional majority that wishes to force Americans on a long march to health care disaster, President Obama has invoked the name of Je...
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Rome's call: 'Come on over'Dec 23, 2009 10:00 pm - Late in life, the mother of the Rev. Thomas Reese, S.J., began attending mass at a Southern California church, the congregation of which soon became Spanish-speaking. Se...