Articles filed under Opinion
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Sometimes slopes really are slipperyAug 13, 2009 11:00 pm - Sarah Palin was right, the second time. We do need to turn down the rhetorical heat lest we miss important issues in the proposed House health care bill. Unfortunately,...
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Life in a snapshotAug 13, 2009 11:00 pm - CASCO BAY, Maine -- I am back at my post. Feet planted on the porch railing. Back braced against the familiar contours of the Adirondack chair. On the bird feeder before...
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Hard times nonetheless evoke volunteer spiritAug 13, 2009 11:00 pm - Hard to believe it was more than a year ago when we were deep in the throes of writing stories about how the lousy economy was causing this hardship and that woe. The sp...
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On Vick, excusing the inexcusableAug 11, 2009 11:00 pm - With team after team turning him down, the question regarding Michael Vick, thrower of football and killer of dogs, is not whether he will return to the NFL or even whet...
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Uniqueness entitles us to the right to liveAug 11, 2009 11:00 pm - The debate - OK, the shouting match - we are having over "health-care reform" is about many things, including cost, who gets help and who does not and who, or what, gets...
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Fear no evil in benign provision of health care billAug 10, 2009 11:00 pm - I am as happy as anyone at signs of an economic recovery. But I confess to having mixed feelings about the resurgence of the wing-nut industry. We now have "The Birthers...
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Latinos know profiling all too wellAug 10, 2009 11:00 pm - If you think it's embarrassing for an African-American to have to identify himself to the police while in his own house, imagine how humiliating it is for U.S.-born Hisp...
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Health care reform: a better planAug 09, 2009 11:00 pm - In 1986, Ronald Reagan and Bill Bradley created a legislative miracle. They fashioned a tax reform that stripped loopholes, political favors, payoffs, patronage and othe...
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No, red states are not better than blue statesAug 09, 2009 11:00 pm - In an entertaining but silly political game, partisans score points by comparing statistics of so-called red states and blue states. Conservative Ross Douthat does that ...
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Sotomayor's potential impactAug 08, 2009 11:00 pm - When Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina was explaining his decision to become one of the nine Republicans to support the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor, he said ...