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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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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.

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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