Articles filed under Opinion
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Salvation through sportsJun 09, 2010 11:00 pm - A fascinating test of the curative power of sports has been unfolding this week on both sides of the Atlantic, as Washington and Johannesburg look to athletes to lift th...
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Nightmare of a jobs reportJun 09, 2010 11:00 pm - Concerning the job numbers from May, one can almost echo Henry James' exclamation after examining letters pertaining to Lord Byron's incest: "Nauseating, perhaps, but ho...
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Use news, not news excerpts, when you voteJun 09, 2010 11:00 pm - Who is going to determine how you perceive the candidates you support in the coming election? You? Or the candidates? There is hardly mystery surrounding the power of po...
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The Jews couldn't go homeJun 08, 2010 11:00 pm - Ah, another teachable moment! This one comes to us from Helen Thomas, the longtime White House reporter and columnist who announced her retirement on Monday. Thomas, of ...
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Libidos gone wild in these egalitarian timesJun 08, 2010 11:00 pm - When a long-ago South Carolina legislator described his state as "too small to be a republic and too large to be an insane asylum," he might have added, "but just perfec...
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Myth: Newspapers are not connected to their communityJun 07, 2010 11:00 pm - Fourth in a series A disgraced mayor resigns in Detroit. Financial abuses in day-care centers are stopped in Wisconsin. A mentally ill Chinese immigrant in New York is t...
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Arizona's immigration law: a rebuttalJun 07, 2010 11:00 pm - If Arizona's new immigration law is supposed to be the best thing since warm tortillas, why do supporters have to prop it up by engaging in falsehoods and scare tactics?...
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A promise Obama must keepJun 06, 2010 11:00 pm - While the nation remains preoccupied by the drama of the oil leak in the Gulf, which consumes an inordinate portion of time and attention in the media, a struggle of pot...
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BP's Mr. SunshineJun 05, 2010 11:00 pm - How is it possible that BP chief executive Tony Hayward hasn't been fired? At this point, how can anyone believe a word the man says? If he told me my mother loves me, I...
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Prosperity-to-hysteria two-stepJun 05, 2010 11:00 pm - Jay Gould, a 19th-century railroad tycoon and unrepentant rapscallion, said he was a Democrat when in Democratic districts and a Republican when in Republican districts ...