Articles filed under Opinion
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Are bad words related to success of newspapers?Sep 03, 2008 11:00 pm - Today's challenge: To talk about language we don't use in the Daily Herald without using the language. This could be interesting. I recently engaged in a polite but test...
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Microscope just starting to focus on PalinSep 02, 2008 11:00 pm - ST. PAUL, Minn. - Tom Donilon, the Washington lawyer who did the delegate-counting for Jimmy Carter in 1980, has a bit of practical wisdom that he has offered over the y...
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Saturation patrols work better to stop drunken driversAug 30, 2008 11:00 pm - Labor Day, as the name suggests, celebrates our country's labor force. Over the holiday weekend, millions of hard-working Americans will take that theme to heart by doin...
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Variety of tools let you direct political coverageAug 27, 2008 11:00 pm - Say what you will about the individual candidates, it is going to be an interesting election campaign season. The two key presidential candidates are smart and articulat...
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Gentleman Biden won't fill predictable roleAug 25, 2008 11:00 pm - I saw another man dance with Joe Biden's wife, Jill. It was almost three years ago, on the terrace of the sublime Villa d'Este on the shore of Italy's stunning Lake Como...
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Obama's financial ideals too idealisticAug 25, 2008 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON - Barack Obama has made his economic thinking excruciatingly clear, so it also is clear that his running mate should have been not Joe Biden, but Rumpelstilts...
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Can aloof Obama unite Democrats?Aug 24, 2008 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON - As the Democrats assemble in Denver, there's an odd dissonance to the party. The star of the show is "Mr. Cool," Barack Obama, the ultra-charismatic senator...
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McCain 'zingers' amount to rhetoric of confrontationAug 20, 2008 11:00 pm - It was February 2006 in Munich, and John McCain's eyes were flashing with the mischievous spark that comes when he's about to fire a verbal rocket. "I've got a zinger co...
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Absurdly playing 'American card' against ObamaAug 18, 2008 11:00 pm - SAN DIEGO - While vacationing in his native Hawaii, Barack Obama said he wanted to enjoy some local cuisine - a plate lunch, shave ice, the noodle dish Zip Min - and rel...
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McCain strong, Obama weak, on RussiaAug 18, 2008 11:00 pm - Russia's invasion of Georgia on the pretext of "protecting" Russian peacekeepers stationed in the separatist enclave of South Ossetia and ending the "ethnic cleansing" o...