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What will happen when Abbas leaves?

Opinion: Having just spent a week visiting Israelis and Palestinians, I find it hard not to be struck by the


McCain’s ‘meatball express’ was a gas

Opinion: It wasn’t the first motorcade I’ve ever been in, but the one by John McCain, the Republican


Last July, in the midst of a battle featuring Girard Mayor James Melfi and former police Chief Frank

Editorial: Last July, in the midst of a battle featuring Girard Mayor James Melfi and former police Chief Frank


Love affair with Palin will fade. And then?

Opinion: Man is in love and loves what vanishes. What more is there to say? — William Butler Yeats


McCain engaging in politics of the Big Lie

Opinion: It’s time to tell two truths about Big Lie politics — and one about the news media, whose job is to


Political mischief to blame for financial chaos

Opinion: From runny noses to hurricanes, nothing bad happens in the world unless George Bush did it, and


Question to McCain: When is force OK?

Opinion: Sarah Palin says we might go to war with Russia over Georgia. I don’t really hold her responsible


“If we can cut through the nonsense and the lipstick and the pigs and the silliness, then

Opinion: “If we can cut through the nonsense and the lipstick and the pigs and the silliness, then I’m


Surviving Hurricane Ike

Washington Post: The situation on the Gulf Coast of Texas is dismal. Power is out and in some areas


WRTA helps those who are trying to help themselves

Opinion: WRTA helps those who are trying to help themselves EDITOR: The Aug. 25 letter supporting the


“Today was a bloodbath. This was panic selling ... They are dumping shares, they just want to

Opinion: “Today was a bloodbath. This was panic selling ... They are dumping shares, they just want to


Biden, Palin could be bad for S. America

Opinion: Over the last few months, you may have read in this column that Democratic presidential candidate


Taking stock of the national economy isn’t an exact science

Editorial: Taking stock of the national economy isn’t an exact science We suppose it depends on what the


Make the rails safer

Make the rails safer Los Angeles Times: Regardless of what caused last week’s deadly Metrolink


An Obama loss will be a bitter pill to swallow for many blacks in U.S.

Opinion: I am a black man born in 1954, the year of Brown v. Board of Education. Fleeing the abuses of Jim