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Conservatives long for the sad days of yesteryear
Well, I sure got that one wrong. Four years ago, on the eve of the last presidential election, I wrote in this space of how the country has spent much of the last three decades "re-litigating" the 1960s, arguing over the changes wrought in that decade....
Tags: Mitt Romney, Barack Obama, Labor Legislation, Elections, Racism
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A nun quietly rebukes 'I built that'
— Let's talk about the other speech. No, not Bill Clinton's 48-minute stemwinder to the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday night that was so mesmerizing even Republicans praised it. Instead, let's offer a little nod of affirmation for...
Tags: Republican Party, Mitt Romney, Barack Obama, Bruce Springsteen, Parties and Movements
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We humans headed toward obsolescence
This was going to be a rant. Then I thought about it, which was a mistake. As any experienced ranter can tell you, thinking about it has the unfortunate tendency of turning a good, clean rant into a muddy quagmire of fine points, conditional sentences,...
Tags: Google Inc., Jerry Brown, Kenny G
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The war on, for and about women in Charlotte
To reach the Convention Center, you must first walk the gauntlet of dead baby parts. It's one of the newer and more gruesome tactics in the fight over reproductive choice, protesters hoisting large color placards depicting aborted fetuses torn in...
Tags: 2012 Democratic National Convention, Apple iPod, Barack Obama, Medical Procedures and Tests, Abortion
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Nothing unique in Akin's nonsense
Rep. Todd Akin's fame — more accurately, his infamy — now reaches all the way to the Congo. There, Eve Ensler, the award-winning American author of “The Vagina Monologues” and herself a survivor of rape, wrote an open letter...
Tags: Republican Party, Rush Limbaugh, Schindler's List (movie), Parties and Movements, Feminism
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War on 21st-century Jim Crow
Kemba Smith Pradia went to Tallahassee, Fla., last week to demand the right to vote. Back in the '90s, when she was just Kemba Smith, she became a poster child for the excesses and inanities of the so-called War on Drugs. Ms. Pradia, then a college...
Tags: Rick Scott, NAACP, Polls, Teddy Pendergrass, Elections
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The black and white of political code-speak
Lord help us, they're talking race again. "They" meaning Republicans and Democrats. Race is a critical, sensitive and sometimes painful issue with relevance to everything from environmental policy to education reform to criminal justice to media to...
Tags: Republican Party, Hillary Clinton, Mitt Romney, Barack Obama, Parties and Movements
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Lacrosse notes: Defending champ Loyola unveils 'most aggressive' schedule for 2013
The defending NCAA champion Loyola men’s lacrosse team will open its 2013 season with a pair of road games before beginning its home schedule on Saturday, Feb. 23, with a rematch of the national title game against Maryland, Greyhounds coach...
Tags: Students, National Collegiate Athletic Association, Charley Toomey, Lacrosse, Jake Reed
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Chavis Carter case raises troubling doubts
What happened to Chavis Carter? It is a pregnant question, potentially even an explosive one. Carter died of a gunshot wound to the temple on the last Saturday in July, but the question about his death has only grown louder and more urgent since then. It...
Tags: FBI, Witnesses, Prosecution, Sean Bell
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Q&A with fly-fishing expert Lefty Kreh
Lefty Kreh is to fly-fishing what James Naismith was to basketball and, perhaps, what Elvis was to rock 'n' roll. Not only is the now 87-year-old Kreh credited with helping invent the sport in the late 1940s, he later popularized it by writing more...
Tags: Natural Resource Industry, James Naismith, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Conservation, Fishing
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With its voting rights threatened, black America is silent
An open letter to African America: In the late '90s, the Internet belched forth a rumor that the Voting Rights Act was soon to expire and that black folks would lose the vote as a result. Though stupid and untrue, the rumor spread like a dust cloud...
Tags: Republican Party, Polls, NAACP, Parties and Movements, Elections
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One man's quest to elevate American political discourse
It was in 2008, the debate between vice-presidential candidates Joe Biden and Sarah Palin. Mr. Biden had just scored his opponent for failing to directly answer a question from moderator Gwen Ifill. But Ms. Palin was hardly apologetic. "I may not answer...
Tags: Joe Biden, Sarah Palin, Radio Industry, Radio
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