Articles filed under Commentary
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Journalists' lives more important than any politicsAug 06, 2009 11:00 pm - I know. The North Koreans are using President Bill Clinton's visit for all their own reasons. Attention world: Here we are, our leader is alive, Bill Clinton is paying h...
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Local news is daily devotion of the Daily HeraldAug 05, 2009 11:00 pm - Local. Every day. Everywhere. It's not yet a Daily Herald slogan, but it could be. Managing Editor Madeleine Doubek informally coined the phrase this week as a group of ...
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Cash for clunkers brilliant for our timesAug 04, 2009 11:00 pm - This is what I told my friend Frank: Under the "cash for clunkers" program, you could get more money for your '93 Mercury Grand Marquis than it was worth - up to $4,500 ...
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'Compassionate' suicide first step toward forcedAug 04, 2009 11:00 pm - BELFAST, Northern Ireland - While America debates whether the federal government should dictate which insurance policies and medical treatments it will allow us to have,...
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Combating a case of Obama fatigueAug 03, 2009 11:00 pm - Apropos of nothing, I awoke recently as unfocused and grumpy as a bear coming out of hibernation. Initially, I blamed my mood on the weather. After months of blessedly c...
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A tactical retreat on health reformAug 02, 2009 11:00 pm - Yesterday, Barack Obama was God. Today, he's fallen from grace, the magic gone, his health care reform dead. If you believed the first idiocy - and half the mainstream m...
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Clean energy law would surely satisfy SaudisAug 01, 2009 11:00 pm - What's in a name? A bit of deception when it comes to the American Clean Energy and Security Act. A more accurate title might be: the American Clean Energy and Less Secu...
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Competition healthy when reformingAug 01, 2009 11:00 pm - Here's an irony for you: The health care bills in Congress are getting better, even as support for them diminishes around the country. It is just as well that President ...
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Legalized pot could be gold for CaliforniaJul 30, 2009 11:00 pm - The popular TV series "Weeds" is about a widowed suburban mother who deals pot to preserve her family's cushy California dream. Not a few Californians would like to see ...
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Politics needn't cloud judicial hearingsJul 30, 2009 11:00 pm - There was never much doubt that Sonia Sotomayor would be confirmed for the Supreme Court. Her inspiring personal biography and her evident legal credentials ensured that...