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Obama should follow FDR

Opinion: By Nick Taylor Los Angeles Times As President Obama weighs his options for adding jobs and


Results are scary

Opinion: WASHINGTON Partisan Democrats are delighted about Christine O’Donnell’s Republican primary victory


Liberals, conservatives — what’s in the label? Not much

Opinion: Among the many words that don’t mean what they say, but which too many of us accept as if they did,


Conformity undermines initiative

Opinion: JERSEY CITY, N.J. The crime scene at 138 Griffith St. has changed in 76 years. Today it is a


State’s public pension system must undergo public scrutiny

Editorial: It’s just a matter of time (it had not occurred as this editorial was written) before Ohio Attorney


Chavez’s obsession with past creepy

Opinion: This year’s 200th anniversary of the independence of several Latin American countries has unleashed


Purge evil of radical Islam

Opinion: Terry Jones, the Florida “minister” who threatened to burn the Koran on the anniversary of Sept. 11,


It’s a valid I.D.

Opinion: By Ed Morales McClatchy-Tribune If you were born a U.S. citizen in Puerto Rico and you try to


Post-9/11 betrayal endures

Opinion: James Madison once wrote, “Of all the enemies to public liberty, war is, perhaps, the most to be


Negotiators must block out those uninterested in peace

Editorial: It comes as no surprise that any early progress in the Mideast peace talks hinges on an old issue,


End fishing expeditions

Opinion: End fishing expeditions Los Angeles Times: Last week, the American Civil Liberties Union


Empathy before barbed wire

Opinion: Empathy before barbed wire America existing as a melt ing pot of cultures is not a recent idea. It


Senate must act quickly on Gulf

Opinion: By David Yarnold McClatchy-Tribune Is this too much to ask of the Senate? To hold polluters like


A health care tax

Opinion: By Burke A. CHRISTENSEN McClatchy-Tribune RICHMOND, Ky. The Obama health-care law requires


Iran will be judged harshly if woman is stoned to death

Editorial: Now that the Muslim holy month of Ramadan has ended, the question the rulers of Iran should have to