Articles filed under Opinion
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Grateful to have a jobSep 10, 2009 11:00 pm - There was a New Yorker cartoon last spring picturing a nearly empty galley ship with only two slaves still pulling their oars under the grim eye of the master. In the ca...
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What was all the fuss about?Sep 09, 2009 11:00 pm - Just when you thought things couldn't get any stupider, schools across the nation decided to censor President Obama's speech urging kids to work hard because "being succ...
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8 years later, our revenge is incompleteSep 08, 2009 11:00 pm - This week it will be eight years since I fled my office and rushed down to Lower Manhattan. Two planes had hit the World Trade Center - I had seen that on television - a...
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Quid but no QuoSep 08, 2009 11:00 pm - HBO showed the film "Schindler's List" last week. The 1993 Steven Spielberg movie never ceases to arouse my deepest emotions. The perennial question put forth in the fil...
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A choice Obama may regretSep 07, 2009 11:00 pm - As President Barack Obama prepares to address Congress on health care reform, America's pro-life movement is gassing up. If Obama hasn't liked the tenor of town-hall mee...
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Reform must preserve care for seniorsSep 06, 2009 11:00 pm - America's caregivers know firsthand how important it is for Congress to reform health care. But as the senior administrator of a long-term care facility in Elk Grove Vil...
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The time is now to leave IraqSep 05, 2009 11:00 pm - Since U.S. troops withdrew from Iraq's cities, two months have passed, and so has the illusion that Iraq is smoothly transitioning to a normality free of sectarian viole...
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Our labor of leisureSep 05, 2009 11:00 pm - Americans have the unalienable right to life, liberty and the pursuit of ... leisure? You would think so, given how hard some of our brethren fight for R & R -- even in ...
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Trouble in Liberal LandSep 03, 2009 11:00 pm - Despite their control of all three branches of government, this has not been a good summer for liberal Democrats. Their health care "reform" bill, which has yet to be fu...
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Health care's senior momentsSep 03, 2009 11:00 pm - When exactly did the Republicans start operating one of those marketing scams that target the elderly? It was bad enough when Sarah Palin told a bald Facebook lie that ...