Articles filed under Opinion
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5 years later, note our common humanityAug 30, 2010 11:00 pm - It's been five years since Hurricane Katrina turned the streets of my beloved hometown of New Orleans into an array of devastating rivers. I was there a week after the h...
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American dream goes viralAug 30, 2010 11:00 pm - August finally redeemed itself from shark-jumping hysteria with an original, spontaneous, transcendent event - the accidental intersection of one Antoine Dodson, his sis...
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Paging the real John McCainAug 29, 2010 11:00 pm - Now that John McCain has taken care of his political business in Arizona, it is time for him to return to Washington and the responsibilities he bears as a leader of the...
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The last refuge of the liberalAug 29, 2010 11:00 pm - Liberalism under siege is an ugly sight indeed. Just yesterday it was all hope and change and returning power to the people. But the people have proved so disappointing....
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King's dream enduresAug 28, 2010 11:00 pm - The majestic grounds of the Lincoln Memorial belong to all Americans - even to egomaniacal talk-show hosts who profit handsomely from stoking fear, resentment and anger....
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Where's the turnaround in family trends?Aug 28, 2010 11:00 pm - Various figures denote vexing social problems. They include 10,000 (the number of new baby boomers eligible for Social Security and Medicare every day), 10.2 percent (wh...
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Blagojevich and the free press, fair trial debateAug 25, 2010 11:00 pm - Every journalism student spends some time in the study of the "free press v. fair trial" conflict, the challenge of guaranteeing every defendant a fair trial according t...
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Democrats made their own lumpy bedAug 24, 2010 11:00 pm - "Worried Democrats courting elderly voters as midterm elections near," reads a headline in The Washington Post. It's long been clear that if Democrats had been less afra...
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Ground zero for freedomAug 22, 2010 11:00 pm - It is hard to imagine that anything has gone unsaid about the so-called Ground Zero mosque, but we seem to be missing an important point. The mosque should be built pre...
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Fitzgerald shouldn't be browbeaten for doing his jobAug 22, 2010 11:00 pm - So, Patrick J. Fitzgerald's middle name is now "Jerk." The Federal Titan of Northern Illinois is also "nuts," according to Rod Blagojevich's defense lawyer and part-tim...