June 18, 2013
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EPA set to torch Native American jobs
PHOENIX — The federal government is a bull that has found yet another china shop, this time in Arizona. It seems determined to inflict, for angelic motives and progressive goals, economic damage on...
Jul 08, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Many are losers under Obamacare
In the wake of the Supreme Court ruling upholding the Affordable Care Act (aka “Obamacare”), NPR’s “Talk of the Nation” held a seminar of sorts at the Aspen Institute’s legendarily pretentious Idea...
Jul 07, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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HISTORY Transfer of detainees won’t placate Taliban
Taliban commander Abdullah Mehsud battled U.S. forces in the early days of the war in Afghanistan until he was captured and handed over to the U.S. He was held at Guantanamo Bay, during which time ...
Jul 07, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Roberts’ ruling a judicial betrayal
Betrayal is hard to take, whether in our personal lives or in the political life of the nation. Yet there are people in Washington — too often, Republicans — who start living in the Beltway atmosph...
Jul 06, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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Loss of child led to law aiding development of pediatric cancer drugs
WASHINGTON — This is the saddest story you will ever read about how a bill becomes law. It should also make you feel better about our dysfunctional political system. The story begins on a Sunday...
Jul 06, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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CREDIT Obama administration pretends sanctions worked
Earlier this year, President Obama offered some tough talk on Iran’s nuclear enrichment program: “I don’t bluff. When the United States says it is unacceptable for Iran to have a nuclear weapon, we...
Jul 06, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Chicago school woes rooted in homes
CHICAGO — The title of the nation’s largest labor union — the National Education Association — seems calculated to blur the fact that it is a teachers union. In this blunt city, however, the teache...
Jul 05, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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SHAME Paterno’s image collapses in wake of leaked emails
The following editorial appeared in the Dallas Morning News July 3: If you retain even a shred of regard for Joe Paterno and what he accomplished at Penn State, you should be glad he didn’t live...
Jul 05, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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REFLECTING Ruling leads Americans to debate as only they can
In the fall of 2009, before Democrats in Congress approved the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, a reporter asked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, “Where specifically does the Constitution gra...
Jul 04, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Roberts deployed Jefferson’s ‘twistifications’
Why not just cut open a goat and be done with it? In ancient Rome, a special kind of priest called a haruspex would “read” the entrails of sheep to divine the will of the gods, the health of the...
Jul 04, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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