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Toward a more civil discourse
11/19/2009 12:30 AM
The issues that command our nation's attention - economic recovery, the war in Afghanistan, immigration, and health care reform - are critically important to all of us, so it's no surprise that they have elicited passionate debate and continue to dom ...
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11/18/2009 12:30 AM
The Obama administration has chosen the wrong New York venue to try five co-conspirators in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States. Instead of a Manhattan courtroom less than a mile from the site of where the World Trade Center st ...
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11/17/2009 12:32 AM
They killed a killer last week.
I kept waiting to feel something when news came that John Allen Muhammad had been executed in Virginia. As a staunch opponent of capital punishment, I wanted some nugget of remorse at the knowledge that the ...
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11/16/2009 12:30 AM
Government and military officials have issued statements since last week's shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, that have nothing to do with the reality of what occurred, what is occurring and what our enemies would still like to have occur all over ...
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11/15/2009 12:34 AM
One of the few incontrovertible assertions once can reasonably make is that no one supports forced abortion.
Yet, coerced abortions, as well as involuntary sterilizations, are commonplace in China, Beijing's protestations notwithstanding. While ...
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