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Obama's money class - (Found July 2, 2008 )

The trends are pretty clear: Rising economic sectors tend to favor Democrats while declining economic sectors are more likely to favor Republicans.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/369121_brooksonline02.html?source=rss

Iraq War History: A tactical failure - (Found July 2, 2008 )

P-I Editorial: Not only was our invasion, and now, occupation, of Iraq unjustified, but a new Army report confirms what we've seen unfolding month after month, year after year in Iraq: Our war there has been a tactical failure.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/368988_botcheded.html?source=rss

Vote for candidate who will rebuild U.S. - (Found July 2, 2008 )

We are the ones who need a better-functioning democracy -- more than the Iraqis and Afghans. We are the ones in need of nation-building. It is our political system that is not working.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/368990_friedman01.html?source=rss

Clinton fan not ready to make nice - (Found July 2, 2008 )

Bill Clinton, who is in a self-pitying meltdown about not being Elvis anymore, is trying to shake down Obama for more apologies for perceived snubs and more help paying off the $22 million Clinton debt.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/368989_dowd01.html?source=rss

America loves both the law and the gun - (Found July 2, 2008 )

Rupert Cornwell, guest columnist: You can live in a country for more than a dozen years. You can marry one of its citizens, and watch your son grow up to be one of its citizens. Yet on occasion, here in the United States, I still feel like an alien from the opposite end of the universe.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/368991_gun01.html?source=rss

McCain mulls run as one-termer - (Found July 2, 2008 )

If McCain were to take the one-term pledge, he could argue that he's the candidate for change. It would be a way for the white male presidential candidate to make history.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/368992_mccain01.html?source=rss

Court takes giant step backward - (Found July 2, 2008 )

I often wonder if Antonin Scalia might not be more comfortable in another century, past not future, one not touched by the miseries and dangers of urbanization. I certainly think we would be if he were.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/368968_thomassononline01.html?source=rss

Former president's meeting with Obama long overdue - (Found July 2, 2008 )

If both Clintons can recognize in the Democratic Party nominee many of those same qualities that took the unfancied "man from Hope" to the White House, Barack Obama will be that much closer to having a winning team.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/368957_electiononline01.html?source=rss

Scalia engages in acrobatics on the high court - (Found July 2, 2008 )

The Supreme Court's gun ruling reflected little more than ideological sophistry tricked out in judicial robes. It disregarded the import of the opening half of the declarative statement, making of the whole little more than a non sequitur.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/368960_rosenfeldonline01.html?source=rss

If terrorists rock the vote in 2008 - (Found July 2, 2008 )

Terrorism is the one major issue where McCain soundly vanquishes his Democratic opponent in the polls. Since 2002, it's been a Beltway axiom akin to E=mc2 that Bomb in American City=GOP Landslide.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/368943_richonline01.html?source=rss