Tag Archives: SDNN

O’Connor: Is Arizona’s immigration policy our new ‘Civil War?’

Thomas Jefferson called slavery, “a fire bell in the night.” He saw it as one of the seminal causes of the U.S. Civil War, just a few decades away. In order to form any union, let alone a perfect union, the Founding Fathers finessed the issue of slavery when writing the U.S. Constitution, just as [...]

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O’Connor: God bless Sarah Palin, the Tea Party Movement

By: Coleen O’Connor, SDNN Consider the following: A just released Pew Poll finds that nearly 80 percent of Americans do not trust their government. This is hardly a surprise. Predictably, the survey finds “a perfect storm of conditions associated with distrust of government – a dismal economy, an unhappy public, bitter partisan-based backlash, and epic [...]

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Colleen O’Connor: Meg Whitman could win

[Editor's note:  This column was written June 2009.  It is as up to date in it's analysis as if it was written this weekend] By:  Colleen O’Connor Few believe that any Republican can win the governorship of one of the country’s most dependably Democratic states—California. I beg to differ. It could happen. Everything seems to [...]

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“Throw the bums out” is now the dominant mood in the country.

By: Colleen O’Connor San Diego: SDNN Opinion A CBS News/New York Times poll in early February found 81 percent of those polled, saying it’s time to elect new people to Congress, with just eight percent saying most members deserve re-election. This generated lots of surprise among the chattering class. A kinder, gentler poll by CNN [...]

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O’Connor: Bank on California’s future (yes, it still has a future)

By: Colleen O’Connor Lunar New Year began Sunday. The Year of the Tiger, a symbol of courage, and celebrated by the Chinese, Vietnamese, Koreans and others. An apt description for the Chinese economy—a tiger that the world envies for its strength and fears for its power. “As a rebel, the tiger goes up against authority [...]

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O’Connor: Can the Clintons save Obama and the planet?

Colleen O”Connor, in her piece for the SDNN, says that:  “Obama has lost the trust of the majority of Americans.”  This perception has been spreading month by month and it is graphically depicted in the trend line of Rasmussen Reports Presidential Approval charts. Craig Edwards and I have been talking about this for months on our [...]

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O’Connor: Is Obama a half-term president or a political genius?

I try to avoid huge, time-consuming posts, but this article by Colleen O’Connor is so good, I couldn’t resist the temptation to use the bulk of her wonderfully written article. She expresses, in her unique way, what many of us have been thinking these last 11 months……that Obama looked like he was on his way [...]

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