Articles filed under Commentary
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Getting from 'humbug' to 'halleluiah'Dec 24, 2014 4:01 am - "Assembly required" used to put fear in me - especially during the Christmas season when putting gifts together under the tree for the kids - but "recalculating" is the ...
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A global conspiracy of good healthDec 24, 2014 4:01 am - In the category of stunning, heartening, woefully underreported good news: In 2000, an estimated 9.9 million children around the world died before age 5. In 2013, the fi...
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Lame duck ends on a wing and a prayerDec 23, 2014 4:01 am - The "lame duck" Congress limped to an end and was able, despite gridlock, to make some accomplishments. For the record, this was the 113th elected Congress. Historians ...
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The gap on Hispanic outreachDec 23, 2014 4:01 am - Sometimes you'll have a disagreement with someone but you're not that far apart. My argument with Dallas-based radio host Chris Salcedo, who has a weekend show on The Bl...
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The arrogance of liberal elitesDec 21, 2014 4:01 am - Jonathan Gruber - the source of more smoking guns than the battle of Gettysburg - recently appeared before a hostile House committee. The good professor, you might recal...
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The challenge for us all in a word: unityDec 19, 2014 4:01 am - We have found ourselves again to be in a situation that we have been in many times before. It is a situation that has caused men and women to be recognized throughout th...
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Decline of the dealmakersDec 18, 2014 4:01 am - With the defeat of Sen. Mary Landrieu in Louisiana, not a single Democrat from the Deep South will hold a Senate seat come January. That stark fact represents the last c...
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The left's convenient villainDec 16, 2014 4:01 am - Alberto Gonzales is hounded by a single word. It starts with "t". "I'm known as the architect of torture," Gonzales told me by phone from Nashville, where the former U.S...
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All sorts of trouble with our local electionsDec 14, 2014 4:01 am - Time again for what's become a regular rant. Monday marks the first day for candidates to file for local municipal, school, park and library boards - every element of go...
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Time to get over the litmus testDec 14, 2014 4:01 am - It is probably too soon to declare a feminist reformation, but a few signs here and there give one hope. Hold it, sirs, don't stop reading yet. I realize that seeing the...