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AND ANOTHER one bites the dust.
But Indiana Sen. Richard Lugar did not go quietly. After this month’s defeat in the Republican primary, the veteran legislator issued a remarkable statement …
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5/20/12
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A PRESIDENTIAL race recently focused on high school has come to resemble a popularity contest of the same vintage.
Hence, we read that women like Barack best (except when they don’t). Last …
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5/20/12
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SOMETHING WE haven’t heard many university commencement speakers discuss this year is our Western heritage – or the related topics of “Western civilization,” “Great …
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5/20/12
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THERE ARE two ways to defend gay marriage. Argument A is empathy: One is influenced by gay friends in committed relationships yearning for the fulfillment and acceptance that marriage conveys upon …
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5/20/12
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WHEN I first saw the new Time magazine cover of a nearly 4-year-old boy nursing on his mother’s exposed breast, I must admit it made me nostalgic.
For a time when they wrapped magazines in …
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5/20/12
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STORIES ABOUT Mitt Romney’s bullying behavior during his prep school days in Michigan made me think of a message that popped up on my Facebook page last year: A woman from my hometown wanted to …
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5/19/12
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CLOSE YOUR eyes and picture 110 million obese people waddling around America’s sidewalks. You’ll probably want to keep your eyes closed.
Such is the scenario suggested by a new study …
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5/13/12
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I PROMISED Russell I would ask you something.
We met last week in a medium-security correctional facility. There, I spent a couple hours talking with a group of men who are studying for their …
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5/13/12
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IN MAY 1967, in brazen violation of previous truce agreements, Egypt ordered United Nations peacekeepers out of the Sinai, marched 120,000 troops to the Israeli border, blockaded Eilat …
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5/13/12
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IT DOESN’T take much effort to become disheartened about American education. Dismal statistics point to the fact that our children simply don’t know enough. Our top-performing kids can …
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5/13/12
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WE PARENTS of college students had better get the basements fixed up. According to none other than Karl Rove and his political action group, chances are better than eight in 10 that the kids will be …
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5/13/12
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THE SQUABBLING between political campaigns and the harrumphing of pundits were put in proper perspective at, of all places, the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner — the annual …
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5/6/12
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SOMETIMES, people hide inside the Bible.
That is, they use the Christian holy book as authority and excuse for biases that have nothing to do with God. They did this when women sought to vote and …
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5/6/12
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IF YOU’VE been holding your breath to see whether Mitt Romney would pivot to the center now that it’s a two-man race between him and President Obama, you can exhale; he …
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5/6/12
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“The pundits like to slice and dice our country into red states and blue states ...”
– Barack Obama, rising star, Democratic convention, 2004
POOR SOLICITOR …
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5/6/12
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A HUNDRED years of the women’s movement and what do we have? Women sneaking off to read “mommy porn” on their Nooks.
Wouldn’t our suffragette grandmothers be …
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5/6/12
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EITHER President Obama has wings of Kevlar – or he has the most incompetent scheduling staff in White House history.
What president flies purposefully into the eye of a perfectly awful, …
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4/29/12
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JOHN RAESE is feeling persecuted.
Raese, a West Virginia businessman running for the Senate, declared in a recent speech that he doesn’t want the government telling him what to do …
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By winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for commentary, is a columnist for the Miami Herald, 1 Herald Plaza, Miami, FL 33132. Readers may write to him via email at .
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4/29/12
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LAST YEAR President Obama ordered U.S. intervention in Libya under the grand new doctrine of “Responsibility to Protect.” Moammar Gaddafi was threatening a massacre in Benghazi. To stand …
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4/29/12
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LONG AFTER the last U.S. soldier left Iraq, thousands of Iraqis who worked for our military and civilians are still living in dangerous limbo, waiting for promised U.S. visas that haven’t …
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4/29/12
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