Articles filed under Opinion
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Suicide 'justice'Aug 27, 2009 11:00 pm - After pledging during last year's presidential campaign, and as recently as the spring, not to revisit the past, the Obama administration, in the person of Attorney Gene...
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Defusing the Google bombAug 26, 2009 11:00 pm - When Oscar Wilde observed that the only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about, he could not have imagined the Internet. The wild frontier we now ...
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Both parties guilty of big spendingAug 25, 2009 11:00 pm - Remember when the deficit was so bad that Democrats said we (or more accurately the Republicans) were placing a terrible burden on our grandchildren? That was several tr...
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Obama's a teacher without a lesson planAug 25, 2009 11:00 pm - Let's go back to that "teachable moment." It was proclaimed by Barack Obama after he said that police in Cambridge, Mass., had acted "stupidly" in arresting Henry Louis ...
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Hitler sideshows are a cheap shot that only hurtsAug 24, 2009 11:00 pm - Midway through the month's town hall meetings on health care, it seems the shark has jumped the shark - and even Hitler must be sick of himself. The terrible tyrant can'...
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Let's be honest of death counselingAug 23, 2009 11:00 pm - Let's see if we can have a reasoned discussion about end-of-life counseling. We might start by asking Sarah Palin to leave the room. I've got nothing against her. She's ...
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Education Deja Vu -- How ironicAug 22, 2009 11:00 pm - Today's lesson is about irony. Example: When teachers unions and other defenders of the educational status quo -- who spent years blasting a Republican president for exp...
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A doctrine of no retreatAug 22, 2009 11:00 pm - As memories of the Cold War fade, like photographs bleached by sunlight, few remember the Brezhnev Doctrine. It was enunciated by Leonid Brezhnev in Warsaw in 1968 as a ...
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Open a locker? We can help with that, tooAug 20, 2009 11:00 pm - Immerse yourself in the story; don't become the story. That's advice I heard a long time ago. Pretty good advice, too. I take it to mean: Research the issue well or spen...
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The Equal Rites Awards, 2009Aug 20, 2009 11:00 pm - Every year at this time, we prepare to celebrate Aug. 26, the anniversary of women's suffrage, in our own quirky way. We cheerfully distribute the Equal Rites Awards to ...