Articles filed under Opinion
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A pretense masquerading as a virtueMar 24, 2010 11:00 pm - Stupak. Etymology: Eponym for Congressman Bart Stupak. Function: verb 1: In a legislative process, to obstruct passage of a proposed law on the basis of a moral principl...
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The Catholic dichotomy on health careMar 24, 2010 11:00 pm - When it comes to health, the "least of our brethren" are the 47 million Americans without health insurance. Studies show the lack of insurance results in the unnecessary...
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Decline of U.S. health care has begunMar 23, 2010 11:00 pm - Pork is the preferred metaphor in Washington for misspending. But last weekend, pork took a back seat to baloney, which was present in abundance as President Obama and H...
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The Biden incidentMar 22, 2010 11:00 pm - Why did President Barack Obama choose to turn a gaffe into a crisis in U.S.-Israeli relations? And a gaffe it was: the announcement by a bureaucrat in the Interior Mini...
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Move politics aside to fix immigrationMar 22, 2010 11:00 pm - The immigration debate is back. And it's hard to find anyone who is pleased to see it return. Not Democrats, who see the immigration issue as one that divides their par...
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On compassion, we're catching upMar 22, 2010 11:00 pm - Mitch McConnell is right. The Republican Senate leader, a man whose vision is to deny others theirs, told The New York Times that President Obama's health care proposal ...
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A system that fails to protect childrenMar 18, 2010 11:00 pm - In California, the criminal justice system's method of dealing with sexual predators who harm or even kill children is - to borrow a phrase - stuck on stupid. What else ...
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Deem and pass sounds more like sneak and springMar 18, 2010 11:00 pm - As Democrats consider shoving health care reform through the House with a process known as "deem and pass," it is helpful to return to square one and ask: What, again, i...
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Let's rid Illinois of these two evilsMar 17, 2010 11:00 pm - Niccolo Machiavelli, the 16th century Florentine philosopher, wrote in his political masterpiece "The Prince," "if evils are anticipated they can easily be remedied but ...
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Protests may be public, but they're not always newsMar 17, 2010 11:00 pm - One of the great qualities of this country is that everyone has a right to speak his mind. Another is that not everyone has to be heard all the time. For a newspaper, na...