Opinion and Editorial

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Helping with health insurance

Opinion: The next president of our country will again have to deal with the seemingly impossible problem to


If only it really rained pennies from heaven

Opinion: Metal has always played a big part in my life, at least the admiration of it. Duing the Great


Election isn’t about managing abilities

Opinion: As we’ve been celebrating this month what remarkable people our country’s founders were, it’s


Cherry tree, no; tobacco, yes

Cherry tree, no; tobacco, yes Scripps Howard News Service: There would seem not much left about


Reading the Declaration

Editorial: Reading the Declaration In 1776, they were fighting words. Written by Thomas Jefferson and


It’s a problem when gym trumps civics

Opinion: BRATTLEBORO, VT. — My daughter Charlotte recently informed me that gym teachers still make kids play


Patriotism matters today more than ever

Opinion: The Fourth of July is a patriotic holiday but patriotism has long been viewed with suspicion or


Birth of the nation on July 4? Why not?

Opinion: MECKLENBURG COUNTY, N.C. — The impatient patriots here had splendidly short fuses in 1775. Those who


“It was an extraordinary symphony in which everything went perfectly.”

Opinion: “It was an extraordinary symphony in which everything went perfectly.” Ingrid Betancourt


McCain recognizes importance of the area

Opinion: Those who brush off the visits of U.S. Sen. John McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential


ON THE SIDE...

Opinion: I LOVE A PARADE: Today is my favorite local political event of the year: the Fourth of July Parade


President Mugabe fiddles while his country burns

Editorial: It is clear that Robert Mugabe, the corrupt leader of the central African nation of Zimbabwe,


Oil for security? Maybe not

Opinion: Dallas Morning News: Last week’s oil conference in Saudi Arabia marked a turning point in U.S.-Saudi


Bush deserves credit for progress in Iraq

Opinion: It is a privilege to spend 90 minutes with the president of the United States. It is frustrating,


A major battle is brewing in the Pentagon

Opinion: A vociferous bureaucratic battle will occur across the first two years of the next administration,