Articles filed under Opinion
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Can Mr. Clean fix the mess in Springfield?Mar 02, 2009 10:00 pm - In his first few weeks in office, President Barack Obama has caught very few good breaks. But last week he had one. When he entertained the nation's governors at his fir...
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Where is the real Bobby, Mr. Gov.?Mar 01, 2009 10:00 pm - I liked the old Bobby Jindal better - the one whose brain moves so fast, he's already indexing questions his interviewers haven't thought of yet. What did they do with h...
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Saturday SoapboxFeb 27, 2009 10:00 pm - Snow way Yes, spring is just around the corner, and, yes, we probably (hopefully) don't have too many winter storms left this season. But last weekend's snow offered a p...
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Nothing like crisis to turn GOP's headFeb 26, 2009 10:00 pm - Read my lips: Like everyone else, I'd prefer no new taxes. Americans are taxed too much as it is and politicians - in both parties - are too wasteful with other people's...
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Local impact of dollar deluge is story to watchFeb 25, 2009 10:00 pm - As Peter Gabriel might say, "Lord, here comes the flood." As Glinda, the Good Witch of the North, might say, "Are you a good flood or a bad flood?" That, alas, remains t...
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Obama brings a taste of Chicago to WashingtonFeb 25, 2009 10:00 pm - Imagine you are the president of the United States, confronted with the worst economic and financial crisis since the Great Depression. You inherited a $1.3 trillion fis...
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President's decision on troops vitalFeb 22, 2009 10:00 pm - In the two-front war that Washington is now calling "AFPAK," there's more head-scratching going on than is immediately visible. Yes, President Barack Obama last week app...
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President: Stay calm and trustFeb 22, 2009 10:00 pm - Maybe it was the imminent passage of the stimulus bill, but 30,000 feet over Ohio as President Obama was heading to Chicago for a long weekend, "catastrophe" suddenly se...
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Don't tamper with constitution on senate choiceFeb 21, 2009 10:00 pm - A simple apology would have sufficed. Instead, Sen. Russ Feingold has decided to follow his McCain-Feingold evisceration of the First Amendment with Feingold-McCain, mor...
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Dark days may bring bright futuresFeb 21, 2009 10:00 pm - I am not one of these people who stay chirpily focused on the silver lining when the clouds gather over my head. So I have been vaguely put off by all those peppy artic...