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COLUMN: An honor to be on the fire line
As reporters, we spend a lot of time telling other people's stories. Every once in a while, though, you find yours…
Bad call
From the start, the Obama administration made a weak case for trying terror suspects in civilian courts. Last week's acquittal of Ahmed Ghailani on 284 of 285 counts in the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya …
UNEMPLOYMENT
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Good news
The dramatic turnaround story of General Motors has etched another milestone with a successful stock market offering, reducing the government's ownership share well below the crucial 50 percent mark.
Real stimulus
Federal power grabs called "stimulus" bills haven't worked. Hanging carrots outside banks hasn't done it. Now the Federal Reserve is going to try to stimulate the economy with a $600 billion bond purchase it hopes …
Online clarity
Anyone venturing into the Internet knows their online life is an open book. Forgive the mixed metaphor, but the knowledge virtually every keystroke is being monitored is both understood and wearing thin.
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Verbal setback
Once again, an ill-considered statement by Afghanistan’s mercurial president, Hamid Karzai, has cast a shadow over the U.S.-led military mission. Karzai raised doubts in an interview about why foreign troops are ne…
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Better ways
If you ever travel by commercial airline, you know the drill: Provide ID, take off shoes, put change, keys and cellphones in the bin, and step through the metal detector. Like a bum knee, it’s a pain, but one you’v…
Reader writes of experiences of 'domestic silence'
MOSES LAKE — Have you been ridiculed or confronted or even threatened? Wow I have and you know what, It doesn’t bother me anymore.
Responsibility
Republicans swept into power across much of the country, gaining control of the House and more seats in the Senate. What’s more, they won key governors’ races, including victories in swing states like Michigan and …
Swift change
Never say forever in American politics. In the summer of 2008, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi confidently laid out a scenario in which Democrats would win the White House that fall, pick up more congressional seats in …
New Christmas
If Halloween is beginning to feel a lot like Christmas, there’s a reason for that.
Must speak up
In the name of radical Islamic-inspired nationalism, Mideast Christians of all denominations, including Catholics, have faced devastating persecution for their religious convictions. From the Gaza Strip and Egypt t…
A plan
The British government unveiled a new spending plan recently that should show the way to the next U.S. Congress. Britain’s new budget will hold government outlays almost constant for the next five years in an effor…