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article: LOPEZ COLUMN: Obama's ‘audacity' is for dopes
Barack Obama at least has one thing right: the author of "The Audacity of Hope" is certainly audacious.
Posted in Lopez, Opinion on Sunday, August 3, 2008 10:00 pm.
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article: LOPEZ COLUMN: Dems’ pro-choice mission
Sixty-five percent. That's Pennsylvania Sen. Robert Casey Jr.'s rating with NARAL Pro-Choice America, the standard measure for a politician's abortion-rights-advocacy purity. Sixty-five percent - voting with NARAL two out of three times - does not a pro-life Democrat make. And yet, when the Dems announced that Casey would be speaking at their convention in Denver, it was widely accepted that he could be described as a pro-life presence there.
Posted in Lopez, Columns, Opinion on Thursday, August 21, 2008 10:00 pm.
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article: LOPEZ COLUMN: A day of remembrance, in spite of it all
The seventh anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks came abruptly. Most of the political world had just returned from the conventions in Denver and the Twin Cities. In the immediate hours leading up to that day, we had all succumbed to talk of lipstick and pigs.
Posted in Lopez, Columns, Opinion on Sunday, September 14, 2008 11:20 pm. Updated: 11:20 pm.
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article: LOPEZ COLUMN: Biden can’t abide by truth
It's ironic that during the vice-presidential debate in St. Louis, Joe Biden called Vice President Dick Cheney "dangerous." There's something very dangerous about Joe Biden.
Posted in Lopez, Opinion on Monday, October 6, 2008 10:30 pm. Updated: 1:36 pm.
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article: LOPEZ COLUMN: No one should be railin’ or bailin’ on Palin
I suspect that when Time magazine chooses its Person of the Year for 2008, there will be little internal debate. They've probably long picked The One - Barack Obama. After all, more than half the country went and elected him the next president of the United States.
Posted in Lopez, Columns, Opinion on Friday, November 21, 2008 11:45 pm.
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article: LOPEZ COLUMN: Mormons wind up in the crosshairs
Mormons have a reason to be nervous. I didn't fully appreciate it two years ago, when the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints first came under an intense political spotlight. In 2006, Mormon officials had begun making the media rounds, prepping for former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney's expected try for the Republican presidential nomination. This protective measure stood out. No evangelical contingents were giving theological primers in anticipation of Mike Huckabee's run. Few officials were warning Catholics to not do as Rudy Giuliani does on abortion before his run. Why did the Mormons need to do advance work?
Posted in Opinion, Columns, Lopez on Monday, December 1, 2008 11:45 pm.
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article: LOPEZ COLUMN: Another Bush on track for Washington
As it happens, I'm in the mood to defend the Bush who's about to leave office. But that's for a future column. Right now, my attention is on the Bush who has been out of office for a few years. The president's younger brother, Jeb Bush, the former governor of Florida, is living a successful life as a private citizen and policy wonk, working primarily on education reform. But just after Thanksgiving, Florida's Republican senator, Mel Martinez, announced that he will not be running for re-election in 2010. And with that news, we learned the future of Jeb Bush.
Posted in Opinion, Columns, Lopez on Monday, December 8, 2008 11:45 pm.
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article: LOPEZ COLUMN: A good ol’ fashioned scandal in Illinois
In the hours after the news broke that Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich had been carted off for allegedly working to sell Barack Obama's Senate seat, I voiced my relief: At last, an old-fashioned political scandal. I wrote: "This Illinois Senate-seat news is outrageous and shameful. That said, it warms my heart. Finally, a political scandal you can talk to your children about. No room at the Mayflower. No MySpace page. No gay-American announcement. Just good and evil and money and power corrupting."
Posted in Lopez, Columns, Opinion on Monday, December 15, 2008 11:45 pm.
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article: LOPEZ COLUMN: Eyeless in Gaza, heartless at home
Creeped out: That's the best way I can describe my response upon stumbling into an anti-Israel protest one recent Sunday in Manhattan. Ranting picketers carried signs that made light of the Holocaust; children dressed up as Hamas militants dotted the crowd. I wanted to have a more profound response, a deeper analysis, but "creeped out" is how I felt walking away from it. Days later, a colleague, military historian Victor Davis Hanson, expressed a similar reaction to accounts of way too many similar scenes: We're living in "creepy times," he wrote on National Review's Web site.
Posted in Lopez, Columns, Opinion on Thursday, January 15, 2009 10:55 pm.
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article: LOPEZ COLUMN: Respect Earth by respecting your body
According to a survey commissioned by The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy and CosmoGirl.com, 20 percent of teenagers say they have sent nude or semi-nude pictures or videos of themselves by e-mail or posted them on the Internet.
Posted in Lopez, Columns, Opinion on Thursday, January 22, 2009 11:50 pm.
