Articles filed under Opinion
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Oil's expanding frontiersNov 21, 2009 10:00 pm - What city contributed most to the making of the modern world? The Paris of the Enlightenment and then of Napoleon, pioneer of mass armies and nationalist statism? London...
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The civic price of courting corporationsNov 21, 2009 10:00 pm - Amtrak riders passing through New London, Conn., can catch an odd sight in an otherwise picturesque New England setting: a fancy corporate center standing next to a stre...
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Lipstick on a rogueNov 19, 2009 10:00 pm - You have to hand it to Sarah Palin. I don't mean you have to hand her the 2012 nomination. Nor do you have to hand her the $24.64 I overpaid for "Going Rogue." But let u...
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Fighting a coercion clauseNov 18, 2009 10:00 pm - In 2006, long before there was an Obama administration determined to impose a command-and-control federal health care system, a young orthopedic surgeon walked into the ...
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Trying terrorists in U.S. is dangerousNov 17, 2009 10:00 pm - The Obama administration has chosen the wrong New York venue to try five co-conspirators in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States. Instead of a Manh...
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Sarah Palin: A case studyNov 16, 2009 10:00 pm - I saw the other day that George W. Bush is raising money for his proposed policy institute at Southern Methodist University. I did some research and found out that there...
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Give the general what he wantsNov 16, 2009 10:00 pm - The more President Barack Obama examines our options in Afghanistan, the less he likes the choices he sees. But, as the old saying goes, to govern is to choose - and he ...
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Medicalizing mass murderNov 15, 2009 10:00 pm - What a surprise - that someone who shouts "Allahu akbar" (the "God is great" jihadist battle cry) as he is shooting up a room of American soldiers might have Islamist mo...
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Thank a school board member todayNov 14, 2009 10:00 pm - Today marks "School Board Members Day" in Illinois, a day set aside by the state to honor, recognize and thank nearly 6,600 citizens who volunteer their time in service ...
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E pluribus diversity?Nov 12, 2009 10:00 pm - Government and military officials have issued statements since last week's shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, that have nothing to do with the reality of what occurre...