Articles filed under Opinion
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This will not end wellDec 02, 2009 10:00 pm - A traveler asks a farmer how to get to a particular village. The farmer replies, "If I were you, I wouldn't start from here." Barack Obama, who asked to be president, ne...
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Reporting aims to avoid adding more tragedyDec 02, 2009 10:00 pm - So while I'm still here livin', I guess I will live on. I could've died for love, but for livin' I was born. You might hear me holler and you might hear me cry. But I'll...
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What's all the fuss about same-sex marriage?Dec 01, 2009 10:00 pm - The truth is that if Maj. Nidal Hasan, the accused killer of 13 people at Fort Hood, had entered the officers club there with a nice handbag on his arm, perhaps a Gucci ...
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Kill the bills and do health reform rightDec 01, 2009 10:00 pm - The United States has the best health care in the world - but because of its inefficiencies, also the most expensive. The fundamental problem with the 2,074-page Senate ...
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Life in prison for child criminals?Nov 30, 2009 10:00 pm - The United States Supreme Court this month heard arguments in a case that could decide whether a child who commits a crime should be sentenced in some circumstances to l...
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Fighting extremism with civilityNov 30, 2009 10:00 pm - The most surprising and disappointing aspect of our politics is how little pushback there has been against the vile, extremist rhetoric that has characterized such a lar...
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Rocky Mountain medical highNov 28, 2009 10:00 pm - DENVER - Inside the green neon sign, which is shaped like a marijuana leaf, is a red cross. The cross serves the fiction that most transactions in the store - which is w...
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Back in the U.S.S.A.Nov 26, 2009 10:00 pm - Not all revolutions begin in the streets with tanks and guns. Some advance slowly, almost imperceptibly, until a nation is transformed and the public realizes too late t...
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A backlash of mistrustNov 26, 2009 10:00 pm - Is there such a thing as communications malpractice? If so, we might consider the case of Women v. the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. I'm not talking about medical...
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You can go home againNov 24, 2009 10:00 pm - In the past, I've advised undocumented immigrants from Mexico to learn English, become legal, value education, refuse handouts, resist entitlement, and culturally assimi...