Articles filed under Opinion
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Changes seek more decorum in online conversationsJun 10, 2009 11:00 pm - One of the exciting advances that the World Wide Web enabled for the experience of reading a newspaper was the ability for readers to respond immediately to stories and ...
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Make hard choices, don't punish the innocent childrenJun 08, 2009 11:00 pm - On Tuesday, June 2, I received an e-mail marked "extremely urgent." It was from Mark Parr, who is the Executive Director of the Children's Advocacy Center of North and N...
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Immigration reform's hidden factorJun 08, 2009 11:00 pm - A month ago, before most Americans had ever heard of Sonia Sotomayor, I predicted to a group of friends that Latinos would get either a Supreme Court justice or immigrat...
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Words of perspective amid the precipitationJun 07, 2009 11:00 pm - When you have gone mano-a-mano with the Gambino crime family, slogged through the wreckage of an embassy bombing, pursued Osama bin Laden and Scooter Libby and strung up...
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Hey taxpayers, have we got a deal for youJun 06, 2009 11:00 pm - "I want to disabuse people of this notion that somehow we enjoy meddling in the private sector." President Obama said that in March, when the government already owned 8...
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Summer's biggest battle will be over health care reformJun 06, 2009 11:00 pm - While headlines talk about a fight over confirming Judge Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court that may never develop, a much bigger battle is about to break out over Pr...
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Debunking the myth of the lone shooterJun 04, 2009 11:00 pm - It is believed that the shooter acted alone. Surely, that's true. No one else was standing beside suspect Scott Roeder when it is believed he murdered Dr. George Tiller ...
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Carnival of the fire-breathersJun 03, 2009 11:00 pm - I intended to write about the GOP's message problem with the headline: "Shoot the Messenger." Sunday's murder of abortion doctor George Tiller makes my title inappropria...
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Sotomayor and condescending identity politicsJun 01, 2009 11:00 pm - Identity politics are not good for the country or for the groups they purport to advance. This is not to undercut Sonia Sotomayor, who, as the news reports all start ou...
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Tangled web ties Obama, Reid, BurrisMay 30, 2009 11:00 pm - When he was elected president, Barack Obama inherited Harry Reid as Senate majority leader; the choice wasn't his. When the Illinois Democrat was elevated to the White H...