LOCAL COLUMNS
Historic reforms in health care will help women
By DR. DOUG LAUBE | 11/23
America is now poised for the first dramatic public health achievement of the 21st century. What makes this moment truly life-changing is that, for the first time, more women and their families will have coverage than ever before.
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Investment is opportunity to rebuild our communities
By CORY NETTLES | 11/17
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State enacts smart, efficient reforms in criminal justice
By RICK RAEMISCH | 11/10
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State’s high court wise to consider rights in recusal rule
By BILL MALKASIAN | 11/6
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Newspapers still most important shopping tool
By JOHN F. STURM | 11/6
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER
Travesty in New York
By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER | 11/20
WASHINGTON -- The self-proclaimed architect of 9/11, Khalid Sheik Mohammed, has been given by the Obama administration a civilian trial in New York. Just as the memory fades, 9/11 has been granted a second life—and KSM, a second act: “9/11, The Director’s Cut,” narration by KSM.
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Medicalizing mass murder
By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER | 11/13
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Myth of '08 is demolished
By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER | 11/6
ROBYN BLUMNER
Stupak Amendment is an insult to women
By ROBYN BLUMNER | 11/16
Rep. Bart Stupak, a Democrat from Michigan and a purported member of the secretive fundamentalist Christian group known as The Family, threatened House Speaker Nancy Pelosi like a spoiled child possessing the playground’s only basketball. He promised to let health reform fail, with about 40 members in tow, unless the bill included his amendment that barred abortion coverage from any public option or private health insurance plan purchased with federal subsidies.
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A Weighty Matter
By ROBYN BLUMNER | 11/9
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A tall order for Trumka
By ROBYN BLUMNER | 11/2
RICK HOROWITZ
There’s news, and then there’s Palin news
By RICK HOROWITZ | 11/19
“Even though we’re a serious news show, deep down inside you needed to talk about her, and that book of hers.”
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Take two studies and call them in the morning
By RICK HOROWITZ | 11/17
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Health-care strategies: Whatever it takes
By RICK HOROWITZ | 11/11
INSIDE THE FIRST AMENDMENT
Why gay-marriage friends, foes need one another
By CHARLES C. HAYNES | 11/21
Two church-state encounters this month, in two very different parts of the country, are instructive reminders that in a deeply divided society winners are very unlikely to take all.
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Investigating Medill 'Innocence Project' could chill students' reporting
By GENE POLICINSKI | 11/14
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In public schools, get religion right before the fight
By CHARLES C. HAYNES | 11/7
DAVID BRODER
Budget-buster in the making
By DAVID BRODER | 11/22
WASHINGTON -- Most voters in a new poll believe President Obama will not be able to keep his promise that any health reform bill he signs will not add to the federal deficit.
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Picking a fight is GOP tradition
By DAVID BRODER | 11/20
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The hand Obama should play
By DAVID BRODER | 11/15
ELLEN GOODMAN
Lipstick on a rogue
By ELLEN GOODMAN | 11/19
BOSTON -- Remember back in the 1990s when Hillary Clinton described herself as the Rorschach test for how people felt about the women’s movement? Sarah Palin has become the latest test for shifting common ground and fault lines between sisterhood and sibling rivalry.
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When a false choice is no choice at all
By ELLEN GOODMAN | 11/12
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In pursuit of happiness
By ELLEN GOODMAN | 10/29
KATHLEEN PARKER
Hating your cake and eating it, too
By KATHLEEN PARKER | 11/22
COLUMBIA, S.C. -- Are the media treating Sarah Palin unfairly? Are they “bashing” her, as her supporters describe any criticism? Was the Newsweek cover sexist? Call me a guy, but give me a break. Sarah Palin is the luckiest woman on the planet.
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Storm before the calm on breast cancer issue
By KATHLEEN PARKER | 11/18
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Minding our manners
By KATHLEEN PARKER | 11/15
PRO-CON
Con: Obama dug a deep hole in Honduras by trying to save a Chavez wannabe
By RAY WALSER | 11/21
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. State Department has been busily digging a diplomatic crater since June 28. That’s when the Honduran Congress and Supreme Court ousted then-President Manuel Zelaya from office due to his unconstitutional bid to eliminate term limits. Rather than side with the democratic institutions of the land, our State Department surprisingly backed Zelaya’s demand for a return to power.
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Pro: U.S. should reject tainted coming election in Honduras
By MARK WEISBROT | 11/21
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China-U.S. partnership mutually beneficial to consumers and workers of both nations
By JOHN MANZELLA | 11/14
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Obama must seek change in Chinese policies that harm U.S. workers, consumers
By MICHAEL J. WILSON | 11/14
