Articles filed under Opinion
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Mission accomplished IIAug 12, 2010 11:00 pm - President Obama claims to have kept his campaign promise to cease American combat operations (though not U.S. troop presence) in Iraq by the end of this month. But it's ...
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Political maxim: Cut spending, but not in my stateAug 12, 2010 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON - Meet Robert Gates, also known as The Leading Indicator. The defense secretary, who is noted among his colleagues for his special closeness with President Ob...
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The lives of bugs and trees as well as cats and dogsAug 11, 2010 11:00 pm - People don't like bugs. They like to read about bugs though. It's not that we're all a bunch of budding entomologists. Most of us, I suspect, are much more interested in...
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An unforgivable silence suggests frightening omenAug 09, 2010 11:00 pm - I always read The Economist magazine. I like many things about it, but I particularly cherish its book reviews. They are cogent and snappily written, and often deal with...
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In Delaware, civility rulesAug 02, 2010 11:00 pm - MIDDLETOWN, Del. - A lot of the mail I receive these days reads like this letter from a Milford, Utah, man, who says: "Truly, there is a lot of anger in the land, and on...
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Transparent redistricting still possibleAug 02, 2010 11:00 pm - In the public's view, Springfield is broken. In a University of Illinois survey of 500 Illinois registered voters conducted in early May, one-third of the respondents sa...
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Iran starts to feel heatJul 31, 2010 11:00 pm - "They (the United States and Israel) have decided to attack at least two countries in the region in the next three months." - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, July...
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Immigration as partisanshipJul 31, 2010 11:00 pm - Christmas came early for demagogues. The court decision putting a hold on the worst provisions of Arizona's new anti-Latino immigration law is a gift-wrapped present to ...
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Dr. Donald Berwick, taxpayer money saving heroJul 29, 2010 11:00 pm - Welcome, Dr. Donald Berwick. Once you pull the arrows out of your back, you can get down to the important work for which you are supremely qualified: fixing the governme...
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The states as an electoral barometerJul 27, 2010 11:00 pm - In this high-stakes election of 2010, much attention naturally focuses on Republican efforts to come back in Congress and the Democrats' drive to retain their large majo...