Articles filed under Opinion
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Terrorism of a personal kindOct 06, 2010 11:00 pm - The schoolyard bully used to work his fists. His target might go home with a black eye, but the bruise would eventually go away. Later in life, victim and victimizer mig...
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A private matter of public concernOct 04, 2010 11:00 pm - The suicide of an 18-year-old Rutgers University student following an unimaginable invasion of his privacy has launched an overdue examination of casual and possibly cr...
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Help save the American dreamOct 04, 2010 11:00 pm - Only God knows how it has come to be, because I definitely do not. I do know that it has come about that the mantle of Abraham Lincoln has fallen on the shoulders of Pre...
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All hired help is deserving of decencyOct 03, 2010 11:00 pm - Here we go again. Meg Whitman says she had no idea that she was employing an illegal immigrant for nine years and fired Nikki Diaz Santillan as soon as she found out. P...
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Trouble, by the numbersOct 03, 2010 11:00 pm - Sometimes the most important clues are hiding in plain view. That was the case in late June, when the Gallup Organization reported that the share of voters who describe ...
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Yes, the Swedish ModelOct 02, 2010 11:00 pm - Swedish voters have re-elected their center-right prime minister, and that has caused rejoicing among my right-wing colleagues. "Sweden votes for tax cuts, privatization...
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Mixed messages on AfghanistanOct 02, 2010 11:00 pm - From the beginning, the call to arms was highly uncertain. On Dec. 1, 2009, Commander In Chief Barack Obama orders 30,000 more Americans into battle in Afghanistan. But ...
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'Convicted?' and other key questions for candidatesSep 30, 2010 11:00 pm - The letter, from a regular contributor to our Fence Post column, provided some encouragement and some gentle prodding. In it, writer Edna Heatherington of Glen Ellyn not...
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Rules and regs, cities and small townsSep 30, 2010 11:00 pm - After living in New York City for a few weeks, I've reached a few conclusions about the great political divide in America. As Barack Obama told us at the Democratic con...
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Why Superman has left the school buildingSep 30, 2010 11:00 pm - "Waiting for Superman" is the new film by documentary filmmaker Davis Guggenheim, director of "An Inconvenient Truth," and it should be mandatory viewing for every membe...