Articles filed under Opinion
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Hope amid budget gloomJul 14, 2010 11:00 pm - Sometimes you can see events in Washington more clearly when you get out of town. Before I came here last weekend to cover the annual summer meeting of the National Gove...
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Pit bulls, elephants and grizzlies, oh my!Jul 13, 2010 11:00 pm - Sarah Palin, the ubiquitous enchantress of the disenchanted, may not have been ready to lead the free world when John McCain anointed her as his running mate. But she's ...
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It is Obama's war nowJul 13, 2010 11:00 pm - "Facts are the enemy of truth," Don Quixote tweeted so very long ago - and as if to prove his point, the Democratic Party in all its tawdry glory unloosed a barrage of f...
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New bill could protect consumers and AmericaJul 12, 2010 11:00 pm - Some in Congress forget that President George W. Bush bailed out Wall Street before there was a Barack Obama to bail out the American taxpayer. It was Bush, joined by a ...
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The right stuff goes wrongJul 12, 2010 11:00 pm - Silly me. I thought America's unparalleled space program (before the current administration began dismantling it) was a triumph of American ingenuity, technology, vision...
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The selective modesty of Barack ObamaJul 11, 2010 11:00 pm - Remember NASA? It once represented to the world the apogee of American scientific and technological achievement. Here is President Obama's vision of NASA's mission, as e...
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To mock a heroJul 10, 2010 11:00 pm - Fifty years ago Sunday, a novel hit America's bookshelves that changed the way millions thought about race and the inexplicable South. Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbi...
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An open mind on climateJul 10, 2010 11:00 pm - It's odd how little we've heard lately from the skeptics who deny that climate change is real. What's the matter, people? Heat stroke? The Venus-like heat that much of t...
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A cynical budget maneuverJul 08, 2010 11:00 pm - On June 30, the Congressional Budget Office issued its long-term outlook, predicting that deficits would come down for the next few years as the need for counterrecessio...
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How much cyberparenting must schools do?Jul 08, 2010 11:00 pm - A boy has apparently sent filthy text messages to your daughter over the weekend. Both are sixth-graders at the same school. You, the girl's father, coach sports with th...