LOCAL COLUMNS
Prioritizing public safety
By J.B. VAN HOLLEN | 2/5
The recent news that the state prosecutors have received a layoff notice from the Department of Administration is deeply troubling. Layoffs will only further exacerbate the negative effects of a prosecutor shortage that threatens the state’s ability to enforce criminal laws and do justice.
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Court decision opens floodgates for corporate money in campaigns
By SEN. RUSS FEINGOLD | 1/31
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How to make jobs top focus in 2010
By JIM HANEY | 1/14
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Smoking stats trigger alarm bells over budget cut
By MAUREEN BUSALACCHI | 1/12
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Assembly Democrats strengthen resolve to create jobs, boost business in 2010
By REP. MIKE SHERIDAN | 1/11
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER
The great peasant revolt of 2010
By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER | 2/5
WASHINGTON -- after stunning Democratic setbacks in Virginia, New Jersey and Massachusetts, Obama gave a stay-the-course State of the Union address.
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Being soft on terror
By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER | 1/29
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The meaning of Brown
By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER | 1/22
RICK HOROWITZ
She’s got the whole world on her hands
By RICK HOROWITZ | 2/9
Just when you find yourself thinking that Sarah Palin couldn’t possibly do anything else to embarrass herself, there she is, caught red-handed—well, black- or blue-black-handed, anyway—smuggling the answers into the exam room.
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The GOP says, “Two out of three?”
By RICK HOROWITZ | 2/4
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No dollars, no sense
By RICK HOROWITZ | 2/2
INSIDE THE FIRST AMENDMENT
Civil rights effort drew on all 5 First Amendment freedoms
By GENE POLICINSKI | 2/6
While civil disobedience and nonviolent action were the tools of protest in the civil rights era, religious liberty and free expression were the engines providing the power.
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When the Bible goes to school, the tug-of-war begins
By CHARLES C. HAYNES | 1/30
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When you petition the government, should your name be secret?
By GENE POLICINSKI | 1/23
PRO-CON
Con: Federal law requires airline bombing suspects to be tried in civilian courts
By JOHN B. QUIGLEY | 2/6
COLUMBUS, OHIO -- If the facts are as the press has reported them, there is a basis for charges against Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab under the federal criminal code.
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Pro: While civilian trials are constitutional military tribunals are far more fitting
By JAMES JAY CARAFANO | 2/6
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Pro: Agency would stop economy-gutting bubbles’ from ever reaching their bursting points
By DEAN BAKER | 1/30
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Con: Agency would limit credit and prevent consumer revival of the economy
By THOMAS J. DONOHUE | 1/30
DAVID BRODER
The option is Obama’s
By DAVID BRODER | 2/7
WASHINGTON -- The Jan. 29 session in Baltimore between President Obama and House Republicans followed the shock of the Democrats losing the Kennedy seat in Massachusetts. The session has produced some signs of a changed tone in Washington.
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Reform must come amid budget ruins
By DAVID BRODER | 2/4
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Getting ready to battle over ads
By DAVID BRODER | 1/31
ELLEN GOODMAN
Letting go: I’m stepping into life’s next stage
By ELLEN GOODMAN | 1/1
BOSTON -- Looking backward and forward. I began writing my column when my daughter was 7 and I leave as my grandson turns 7. I began writing about Gerald Ford and end writing about Barack Obama. I began on a typewriter, transmitting columns on a Xerox telecopier. Now I have a MacBook on my desk and an iPhone in my pocket.
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Women: Reflecting on four decades of covering a movement
By ELLEN GOODMAN | 12/24
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Hooked on shame
By ELLEN GOODMAN | 12/17
KATHLEEN PARKER
Don’t ask
By KATHLEEN PARKER | 2/7
WASHINGTON -- Repeatedly, we hear the argument that disallowing gays and lesbians to be “openly gay” in the military is a denial of their civil rights. This argument isn’t only mistaken, it is misplaced.
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A dearth of enigma
By KATHLEEN PARKER | 2/3
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Gaming abortion
By KATHLEEN PARKER | 1/31
