Articles filed under Opinion
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Growing up in the USADec 16, 2009 10:00 pm - For more than two centuries, part of being an American has often meant struggling to be something else. No offense intended. It's not that people are looking for ways t...
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Sometimes, even fantasy manages to look like newsDec 16, 2009 10:00 pm - Odds and ends, this and that, random thoughts: Let's start with Tiger Woods, the AP's athlete of the decade. A few weeks ago, I wrote about being mystified by the news v...
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Programmed to killDec 15, 2009 10:00 pm - At the World Economic Forum some years ago, I attended a panel discussion on robots. One of the experts - everyone's an expert at Davos - predicted that robots would tak...
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Let Congress in on regulating carbonDec 14, 2009 10:00 pm - In the 1970s and early '80s, having seized control of the U.N. apparatus (by power of numbers), Third World countries decided to cash in. OPEC was pulling off the greate...
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We're getting good at burying our shameDec 14, 2009 10:00 pm - Early in my column-writing career I took note of comments by the singer Madonna. A skin magazine had published nude photos of her, taken when she was a teenager. An inte...
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Reinvest in America's recoveryDec 13, 2009 10:00 pm - The recent confirmation by the Obama administration that the economic stimulus funds earmarked for the U.S. Small Business Administration's loan programs have run out is...
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Congress out of its league on BCSDec 12, 2009 10:00 pm - Two Saturdays ago, the nation was one tick of a Texas clock away from a cultural crisis. Nebraska led Texas 12-10 in the Big 12 Conference championship football game in ...
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The reluctant warriorsDec 12, 2009 10:00 pm - After Barack Obama's Nobel Peace Prize speech, anyone still questioning whether he is really a Christian, rather than a Muslim aligned with fanaticism, needs to seek the...
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How to create jobs without really tryingDec 10, 2009 10:00 pm - In 1952, Shepherd Mead wrote a little book called "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying." In 1961, it became an award-winning Broadway musical. It's an instr...
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In a story of too many miracles, hope for one moreDec 09, 2009 10:00 pm - Experiencing a miracle, not to mention witnessing one, ought to be a rare blessing. Yet, at 9 years old, Taylor Radtke has needed more miracles than most of us would eve...