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The loonies and the media

Opinion: If the cliched legal admonition that hard cases make bad law is true, then no matter how the U.S.


U.N. must find a solution to the rape epidemic in Congo

Editorial: A year after U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visited the central African nation of Congo and


On shaky ground

Opinion: Miami Herald: The political violence that rocked Ecuador last week, endangering President Rafael


Fuda’s work ethic, dedication of benefit to Trumbull County

Editorial: “Phenomenal” isn’t a word usual- ly associated with government, especially during an economic


A national U-turn

Opinion: By E. THOMAS McCLANAHAN McClatchy Newspapers Only on the surface is the November election about


Man’s inhumanity to pets

Opinion: Man’s inhumanity to pets I joined the Cat Ladies Soci- ety after my family and husband’s family


Is American dream slipping away?

Opinion: For all the talk these days of porous borders and external threats to the United States, the core of


Brennan: An activist justice

Opinion: WASHINGTON Just in time for the opening of the Supreme Court’s new term arrives a biography of one


Deficits are a heavy burden

Opinion: WASHINGTON Rep. Jeb Hensarling, the four-term Texas Republican, hopes it is true that, as has been


Unfair attack on public education

Opinion: Unfair attack on public education Cal Thomas’s recent dia- tribe on education is much like The


Look who’s popular now

Opinion: Look who’s popular now Lexington (Ky.) Herald-Leader: Perjury. Impeachment. Sex with an intern in


White House focuses on two-year colleges

Opinion: By Juleyka Lantigua-Williams McClatchy-Tribune As an instructor at a community college, I’m


No-brainer for conservatives

Opinion: By Jeffrey A. MIRON Los Angeles Times For decades, the U.S. debate over drug legalization has


Some teachers need to go

Opinion: Philadelphia Inquirer: President Obama made another big push for his education agenda last week,


YSU’s losses continue to mount with regard to a key labor pact

Editorial: Youngstown State University President Cynthia Anderson, who has made it clear that she had nothing