LOCAL COLUMNS
Budget puts state back on track toward prosperity
By REP. MIKE SHERIDAN | 7/3
At a time when most families are looking for ways to do more with less money, we have cut back, too. Our state budget makes the deepest spending reductions in Wisconsin history, slashing most state agency funding by 6.1 percent across the board.
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Ethanol will help fuel us toward energy independence
By JOSHUA MORBY | 7/2
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‘Cap and tax’ scheme will hit us hard
By REP. PAUL RYAN | 7/2
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Don’t let special interests take advantage of credit card fight
By RUSSELL KASHIAN | 6/25
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Choices converge into rescue of aliens in desert
By GARY MEINERT | 6/25
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER
The meaning of Ricci
By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER | 7/3
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court's ruling on the Ricci case left Sonia Sotomayor relatively unscathed. But not affirmative action. Ricci raised the bar considerably on overt discrimination against one racial group.
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Iran: Desperately seeking Yeltsin
By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER | 6/26
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Hope and change doesn’t include Iran
By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER | 6/19
ROBYN BLUMNER
Health insurers face day of reckoning
By ROBYN BLUMNER | 6/29
What we have learned about free-market health insurance is that even when one can get an individual policy, it is often like having no insurance at all. A standard in the industry is to look for ways to reap premiums, then skip out on promised benefits. This is what the status-quo Republicans are fighting to retain.
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How one woman fought an undertow
By ROBYN BLUMNER | 6/23
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Obama’s wrong turn on detention
By ROBYN BLUMNER | 6/15
RICK HOROWITZ
Nothing could be finer than a job in Carolina
By RICK HOROWITZ | 7/2
Chief executive of prominent southern state needs experienced staffer to oversee all office and personal activities. Primary responsibilities will include keeping accurate track of governor’s whereabouts at all times, and assuring that governor does not travel beyond state borders unaccompanied by security detail, wife and/or children.
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After New Haven: Random ruminations on subject of race
By RICK HOROWITZ | 6/30
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In a family way
By RICK HOROWITZ | 6/25
INSIDE THE FIRST AMENDMENT
Putting Sikhs to the ‘cruel choice’
By CHARLES C. HAYNES | 7/3
The U.S. Army isn’t the only arena where Sikhs in America face discrimination. In workplaces, schools, airports and elsewhere, Sikhs often encounter ignorance about their religion and resistance to requests for accommodation. And with Sikhism growing in the United States—there are currently some 500,000 Sikh Americans—the level of discrimination is likely to rise unless more is done to address the problem.
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Justice Souter: man of few words, including ‘no’
By GENE POLICINSKI | 6/27
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Farewell, Justice Souter, defender of Mr. Jefferson’s wall
By CHARLES C. HAYNES | 6/20
DAVID BRODER
The issue that’s not going away
By DAVID BRODER | 7/2
WASHINGTON -- In two new decisions, the Supreme Court has delivered an implicit message that racial discrimination is no longer as big a problem as we once thought. If that reading of the court’s majority is correct, then Judge Sonia Sotomayor will certainly challenge the prevailing view if she is confirmed by the Senate to join that bench.
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Without Bush, he’s on his own
By DAVID BRODER | 6/21
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Heavy lifters for a health bill
By DAVID BRODER | 6/18
ELLEN GOODMAN
Elderly family members are depending on you
By ELLEN GOODMAN | 7/2
BOSTON -- As a society, and as individuals, we are woefully unprepared for aging, even when it’s our parents. We have 76 million baby boomers already entering their 60s.
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Journalism in a Twitter era
By ELLEN GOODMAN | 6/25
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Tuning a culture to a ‘calling’
By ELLEN GOODMAN | 6/18
KATHLEEN PARKER
Please cry for me, South Carolina
By KATHLEEN PARKER | 6/25
WASHINGTON -- Before charity exhausts its welcome, let’s do give South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford this much: He has a flair for the dramatic in what otherwise would have been merely banal. Nothing like vanishing for a few days amid lies, mystery and frenzied speculation to get that “whole sparking thing” going, as Sanford ickily described his affair.
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South Carolinians gone ape
By KATHLEEN PARKER | 6/21
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Two cheers, sisters, for these Zahras
By KATHLEEN PARKER | 6/17
MYRIAM MARQUEZ
GOP must find the road to moderation
By MYRIAM MARQUEZ | 5/7
The Republican Party’s hard right can’t reconcile that most God-fearing Americans are socially moderate. The GOP has strayed from an individual-rights and economic opportunity agenda to a party controlled by uncompromising zealots.
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Cuba is a far cry from being a workers’ paradise
By MYRIAM MARQUEZ | 4/29
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After Bush’s tough love, it’s time to give Obama’s Cuba policy a try
By MYRIAM MARQUEZ | 4/17
PRO-CON
Pro: Obama must redeem campaign promise to set date for Afghanistan withdrawal
By ROBERT NAIMAN | 6/27
WASHINGTON -- Critics of the escalating war in Afghanistan fear that we are being led into a quagmire like Vietnam. A January report from the Carnegie Foundation concluded that the presence of foreign forces in Afghanistan was the single most important factor driving the country’s insurgencies.
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Con: Obama needs to stay course in Afghanistan
By ILAN BERMAN | 6/27
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Pro: Cap-and-trade system rewards special interests
By ANDREW P. MORRISS | 6/20
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Con: Developing clean energy will restore U.S. to top ranks of the world’s innovators
By AMY F. ISAACS | 6/20
