Articles filed under Opinion
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Telling us the obviousJul 27, 2010 11:00 pm - The news in that massive data dump provided by the dauntingly mysterious Wikileaks (who? what?) to one American and two European publications is that there is no news at...
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Road workers face tough conditionsJul 26, 2010 11:00 pm - Regarding the Fence Post letter that road crews should be glad to have jobs, here's another view. What the writer does not understand is that on paper it looks like thes...
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Underfunded pensions weigh on state workersJul 26, 2010 11:00 pm - Countless barrels of ink have been spilled in lamenting Illinois' fiscal crisis brought on by the staggering growth in unfunded pensions and retiree health obligations, ...
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Living with the folks and holding outJul 26, 2010 11:00 pm - A few years ago, before the current recession took hold, I was speaking to a group of high school students and wound up being given a pop quiz. I assured my audience th...
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Outsourcing governmentJul 25, 2010 11:00 pm - In another country also called America, there were no credit cards and excessive debt was seen as a character flaw. In that America, my grandparents and their parents ha...
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Using race to smear ObamaJul 24, 2010 11:00 pm - After the Shirley Sherrod episode, there's no longer any need to mince words: A cynical right-wing propaganda machine is peddling the poisonous fiction that when African...
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Beware the lame duckJul 24, 2010 11:00 pm - Barack Obama's considerable political capital, earned on Election Day 2008, is spent. Well spent, mind you, on the enactment of a highly ideological agenda of Obamacare,...
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Family secretsJul 24, 2010 11:00 pm - I must have been 12 years old when my mother took me aside to tell me she had been married to another man before my father. I was stunned, shocked and, yes, ashamed. In ...
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Kagan's path to the Supreme Court signifies the changing of timesJul 22, 2010 11:00 pm - Buoyed by a 13-6 vote in the Senate Judiciary Committee, Elena Kagan is on her way to the Supreme Court. The talk in Washington is what the impending elevation of the fo...
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Alvin Greene's 'ordinary' journey to S.C. officeJul 22, 2010 11:00 pm - It is often said that there are no new stories, just different ways of telling the same ones. Familiar plots persist through literature: man versus nature, "rags to rich...