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RED-BLUE AMERICA: Balancing security and liberty
4 weeks ago - Scripps Howard News Service
The Indiana Gazette presents an editorial page face-off by opposing writers on a topic of interest. Today, Ben Boychuck and Joel Mathis on security vs liberty. [Read More]
BETSY HART: Brain surgery gives perspective to milestone birthday
4 weeks ago -
As I write this, it is my last day before a birthday. A big one. One of those with a zero in it. (Let’s leave it at that!) [Read More]
Overreach on guns
4 weeks ago - Associated Press
Washington might have a gun control bill now were it not for President Barack Obama’s overreach. The Great Divider has again lived up to the moniker by refusing to embrace a compromise position and refusing to embrace compromise in general. [Read More]
PAUL KRUGMAN: The 1 percent's solution
4 weeks ago - Scripps Howard News Service
Economic debates rarely end with a TKO. But the great policy debate of recent years between Keynesians, who advocate sustaining and, indeed, increasing government spending in a depression, and austerians, who demand immediate spending cuts, comes close — at least in the world of ideas. [Read More]
Mexico border beckons terrorists
4 weeks ago -
There are at least 7,518 reasons to get the U.S.-Mexican border under control. That equals the number of aliens apprehended in fiscal year 2011 from the four nations that federal officials label “state sponsors of terrorism” plus 10 “countries of interest.” Since January 2010, those flying i [Read More]
GENE LYONS: Nate Bell doesn't know Boston
4 weeks ago - Newspaper Enterprise Association
This land is your land, this land is my land From California to the New York Island From the Redwood Forest to the Gulf Stream waters This land was made for you and me. — Woody Guthrie, 1944 For what it’s worth, almost everybody in Arkansas who can find Massachusetts on a road map [Read More]
DAVID BROOKS: Health chaos ahead
4 weeks ago - New York Times News Service
It was always going to be difficult to implement Obamacare, but even fervent supporters of the law admit that things are going worse than expected. Implementation got off to a bad start because the Obama administration didn’t want to release unpopular rules before the election. Regulators [Read More]
LLEWELLYN KING: USA Today's Neuharth led the way
4 weeks ago - Hearst Newspapers
Before the Internet laid siege to the well-being of newspapers, there was television, which had made substantial inroads. It killed off evening newspapers across the country, including famous ones like The Washington Evening Star and The Chicago Daily News. Morning newspapers with a more elite, [Read More]
CAL THOMAS: No boundaries, big problem
4 weeks ago - Tribune Media Services
One of the consequences of abandoning a standard by which right and wrong can be judged is our increasing inability to mete out punishment that fits the crime. In fact, too often we weigh extenuating circumstances rather than guilty actions. [Read More]
MAUREEN DOWD: Lost in space over information glut
4 weeks ago - New York Times News Service
When James Gleick was my editor on the City Desk of The Times, he would often stare into space. [Read More]
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