Articles filed under Opinion
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Applying a double standard on racismSep 17, 2009 11:00 pm - When Barack Obama was elected president of the United States, some suggested that race played a factor in his success. People "wanted" to elect a black man president bec...
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Collaborative style at odds with polarized politicsSep 17, 2009 11:00 pm - For me, the real Obama moment of this back-to-work season wasn't the speech before Congress or Wall Street. It was in the Virginia schoolhouse when a ninth-grader asked ...
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Charles Rangel: The entitled oneSep 15, 2009 11:00 pm - Once upon a time, before I began an interview with Rep. Charles Rangel, I was warned by an aide not to bring up the 1970 race in which the upstart Rangel defeated the vi...
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As the lies escalate, so does the hypocrisySep 15, 2009 11:00 pm - Wouldn't it be nice, as The Beach Boys sang in another context, if there was such a thing as a liar meter? It would detect when a politician wasn't telling the truth and...
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A ruling for accountabilitySep 14, 2009 11:00 pm - I never knew how conservative I was until the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Or how liberal I was until John Ashcroft revealed his plans to prevent more attacks. ...
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It's time to lower the temperatureSep 13, 2009 11:00 pm - "I will not stand by while the special interests use the same old tactics to keep things exactly the way they are. ... Not this time. Not now." - President Barack Obama,...
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The Van Jones matterSep 13, 2009 11:00 pm - So Van Jones, the White House green-jobs czar, once called Republicans "a--holes." Big deal. I've said worse about Democrats. I've said worse about Republicans. I've sai...
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Now try the tough stuffSep 12, 2009 11:00 pm - A great speech is a combination of words and music, of content and color, of substance and emotion. When the speech is as important as the health care address that Presi...
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From McCain-Feingold to MadisonSep 12, 2009 11:00 pm - Last March, during the Supreme Court argument concerning the Federal Election Commission's banning of a political movie, several justices were aghast. Suddenly and belat...
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The reason for our discontentSep 10, 2009 11:00 pm - Who wrote the following: "We must learn to welcome and not to fear the voices of dissent. We must dare to think about 'unthinkable things' because when things become unt...