Articles filed under Opinion
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Recent U.S. success in Anbar province raises two questionsSep 20, 2007 11:00 pm - The Bush administration has been so enthusiastic in touting its new alliance with Sunni tribal leaders in Anbar province that it's easy to overlook two questions: Why di...
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Hispanic Heritage Month brings new understandingSep 19, 2007 11:00 pm - Hispanic Heritage Month only started a few days ago and already it has produced an epiphany. It came from an unexpected source: a concert by Mexican superstar Luis Migue...
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Hillary could stand to show more spine and less expediencySep 17, 2007 11:00 pm - If there is a phrase more closely associated with both Hillary and Bill Clinton than "the politics of personal destruction," it does not come to mind. All the others -- ...
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Even dedicated transit user could take only so muchSep 17, 2007 11:00 pm - Broderick is the Daily Herald's presentation editor for news. I tried. It was easier in nice weather. Then it was a refreshing walk in the morning and a quick train ride...
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Petraeus report shows U.S. has little time left to stitch Iraq togetherSep 13, 2007 11:00 pm - "Tell me how this ends." That is the question Gen. David Petraeus posed to journalist Rick Atkinson in March 2003 as U.S. troops were moving to topple Saddam Hussein. An...
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Israel can stand to be criticized, but it's not always wrongSep 11, 2007 11:00 pm - A strange thing happened to me while reading "The Israel Lobby" by John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt. I went from nodding my head at the obviousness of it all -- o...
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Thompson should be wary of McCain campaignSep 08, 2007 11:00 pm - MANCHESTER, N.H. -- Two hours before Fred Thompson formally entered the race for the Republican presidential nomination, his old friend John McCain turned in the kind of...
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Will council video add understanding or more clutter?Sep 08, 2007 11:00 pm - While many a public body would prefer to conduct public business without that bothersome public in attendance, some do understand how representative government is suppos...
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Why, exactly, are police conducting gay sex stings?Sep 06, 2007 11:00 pm - Well, that didn't take long. A mere five days from the Roll Call revelations to the presumed resignation. Thirty-three years of public service down the toilet, and that ...
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U.S. and Mexico both too quick to blame the otherSep 06, 2007 11:00 pm - Americans and Mexicans have more in common than you might imagine, and that's not necessarily a positive thing. People in both countries respond to illegal immigration i...