- Opinion, Aug 4, 2009
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Critiquing "Cash for Clunkers"
Nearly six months after President Obama and the Democratic Congress passed a near-billion dollar economic stimulus package, the American people finally ...
- Opinion, Jul 16, 2009
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The Single-Payer is the Taxpayer
Saying "time is a wasting," to pass healthcare reform, senior White House Advisor David Axelrod dismissed efforts to reach consensus on ...
- Opinion, May 19, 2009
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California's Call to Convention
For the second time in four years, California voters have "sent a message" to Sacramento, rejecting budget reforms in the face ...
- Opinion, May 13, 2009
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Mea Culpa
I was seven years old when a nun told me that any sins I didn't admit to in confession I would ...
- Opinion, Dec 31, 2008
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Obama Plays Right, the Left Faints
- Opinion, Mar 25, 2009
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A Study No One Needed
Under the category entitled "I Suspected as Much," scientists at the University of California, Davis, have discovered that what makes a teenagers brain unique is ...
- Opinion, Dec 10, 2008
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Yo! Nick! - A Cook's Christmas List
- Opinion, Mar 25, 2009
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Losing Faith in "Hope" for a Change
Not two months into his Presidency and Barack Obama is showing the first signs of self-doubt. Stepping outside the arena of politics and policy for ...
- Opinion, Jan 7, 2009
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Pakistan Continues To Deny and Defy
Imagine this. One of the terrorists from the 9/11 attacks is caught alive, and he reveals that he is from Pakistan where he and the...
- Opinion, May 6, 2009
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A Brief Moment of Smug
STAR Tannery, Virginia - It is not often that I get to gloat. I mean, it's not often that I get to gloat about something ...
- Opinion, Jan 27, 2009
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Beware the Sugardaddy State
It's not uncommon for people to use family metaphors for the government's role in our lives. We have all heard of "Big Brother" and criticized...
- Opinion, Jul 8, 2009
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Will He Ever Just Beat It?
Is it over? Can I come out now? I mean, I poked my head up last week at this time and ...
- Opinion, Feb 25, 2009
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The "None of the Above" Primary
California - and perhaps the nation's - fastest growing political party got a nice present last week: A proposal to open primary elections to folks ...
- Opinion, Dec 17, 2008
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Milk: The Raw Deal
- Opinion, Apr 23, 2009
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You Have Zero Privacy -- Enjoy It!
Oracle Corporation is the apparent winner in the $7.4 billion race (power walk?) to buy Sun Microsystems. I'm not a tech industry ...
- Opinion, Jan 19, 2009
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Politics as Usual?
It appears that former Iowa governor Tom Vilsack will be our next Secretary of Agriculture. By all accounts, the choice is as carefully considered, intelligent,...
- Opinion, Jun 3, 2009
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Beginnings and Endings
This week, like millions of other mothers in the U.S., I will watch my last child graduate from high school. His ...
- Opinion, Feb 4, 2009
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Enabling Multiple Mommy
Just when I think we can't get any stupider as a culture, along comes a story that has me embarrassed to be human. A woman ...
- Opinion, Sep 10, 2009
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An Employers' Market
At last, the public humiliation is over. Many of you know what I am talking about: the agony caused by having ...
- Opinion, Mar 18, 2009
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Cramer vs. Blamer
I would be underestimating to say 50 percent of what is being passed off as "news coverage" on television is actually mere speculation and interpretation. ...
