Articles filed under Opinion
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It's 'make or break' time for the prime minister of IraqJan 10, 2008 10:00 pm - A new movement to oust Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is gathering force in Baghdad. And although the United States is counseling against this change of government...
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Women voters came to the rescue of Hillary Clinton's campaignJan 10, 2008 10:00 pm - By Wednesday, the headlines that had blared "Panic" and "On the Edge" were as infamous as "Dewey Beats Truman." The advance stories written to explain Hillary's defeat h...
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Difficulty of spreading democracy throughout the worldJan 07, 2008 10:00 pm - Of all the understandings of the democratic idea, none could be more wrong than this one. Democracy at its very core is an antidote to the kind of dynastic revenge young...
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It will be another year of constantly changing opinionsJan 03, 2008 10:00 pm - If I were writing a horror film about the news business (not so hard to imagine these days), I would invent a diabolical machine called the "Opinion Accelerator." The A...
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Long-running war on drugs has been an abject failureJan 03, 2008 10:00 pm - You don't hear much about the nation's "war on drugs" these days. It's a has-been, a glamourless geezer. Its glitz has been stolen by the "war on terror," which gets the...
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Don't read too much into the results of the caucuses in IowaJan 02, 2008 10:00 pm - MANCHESTER, N.H. -- One final reminder: When you're reading returns from the Iowa caucuses, remember you are viewing them through a double distortion mirror. The outcom...
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Democratic leader who shares Reagan's view of tax reformJan 02, 2008 10:00 pm - "I was in South Carolina recently and a (black) guy brought me his grandson and said he was so excited to have the kid shake the hand of the chairman of the powerful Way...
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Minutemen's comic act on presidential campaign stageJan 01, 2008 10:00 pm - Tired of playing cop, some in the Minuteman movement are trying to influence the 2008 presidential election by playing powerbroker. And like just about everything this b...
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Bhutto provided the kind of leadership that the world needsJan 01, 2008 10:00 pm - The assassination of former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto might have been prevented had she and her husband heeded advice from friends. Former U.S. Ambassador C...
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Next president must be a strong leader in a dangerous worldDec 31, 2007 10:00 pm - Once again, the cold, cruel outside world intruded on the quiet of a holiday season. The assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto two days after C...