Articles filed under Opinion
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True (or false) feminismJun 24, 2010 11:00 pm - Proving one's feminist bona fides has become the latest challenge for women aspiring to public office. Is she a "real" feminist who walks in lock-step with traditional ...
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Leave nation-building to the AfghansJun 24, 2010 11:00 pm - The good news? Nobody has to pretend anymore that Gen. Stanley McChrystal knew how to fix Afghanistan within a year. The bad news? Now we're supposed to pretend that Gen...
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Obama should give us a clue about who he isJun 23, 2010 11:00 pm - It can seem that at the heart of Barack Obama's foreign policy is no heart at all. It consists instead of a series of challenges - of problems that need fixing, not wron...
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How lawsuit reform could jump-start Illinois' economyJun 22, 2010 11:00 pm - The Illinois economy continues to struggle, with an unemployment rate of 11.5 percent, near the highest in the nation. If lawmakers want to put people back to work, with...
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Hey, GOP, hate the president, but don't hate AmericaJun 21, 2010 11:00 pm - Apparently, President Obama's address to the nation about the "Gusher in the Gulf" satisfied no one. Pundits and bloggers, from the left to the right, scrambled for eith...
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Obama and the vision thingJun 21, 2010 11:00 pm - Barack Obama doesn't do the mundane. He was sent to us to do larger things. You could see that plainly in his Oval Office address on the Gulf oil spill. He could barely ...
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The path to immigration reformJun 20, 2010 11:00 pm - Angry over my criticism of hateful legislative tantrums such as Arizona's new law to ferret out illegal immigrants, some readers have demanded to know my solution to Ame...
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Obama must stick to the deadline in AfghanistanJun 19, 2010 11:00 pm - When he ordered his escalation of the war in Afghanistan, President Obama pledged U.S. troops "will begin to come home" in summer 2011. Discouraging reports from the war...
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Consumed by caution in AfghanistanJun 19, 2010 11:00 pm - Torrents of uninteresting mail inundate members of Congress, but occasionally there are riveting communications, such as a recent e-mail from a noncommissioned officer s...
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On Afghanistan, fast-forwardJun 16, 2010 11:00 pm - Evidently Hamid Karzai did not get the memo on terminology. U.S. military commanders have stopped using the word "operation" to describe the drive, now delayed, against ...