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Today is Wednesday, Feb. 7, the 38th day of 2007. There are 327 days left in the year. On this date in 1812, author Charles Dickens is born in Portsmouth, England.

Opinion: Today is Wednesday, Feb. 7, the 38th day of 2007. There are 327 days left in the year. On this date


Senate should not focus only on Iraq

Opinion: Senators who want America to change course in Iraq should stop wasting their time on opposing the


Confusion over Iraq blurs U.S. vision

Opinion: WASHINGTON -- During that mad fall of 2002 when just about all the think tanks here had jumped


Health care could be third rail of 2008

Opinion: By PETER A. BROWN McCLATCHY-TRIBUNE Campaign lore has it that Social Security is the "third


Make citizenship affordable

Opinion: Miami Herald: If a business were to raise prices the way the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration


"This budget is plunging us toward a cliff that will take us right into a chasm of debt."

Opinion: "This budget is plunging us toward a cliff that will take us right into a chasm of debt." Kent


Dems, GOPers embrace cynical pursuit of power

Opinion: In the race to the bottom for votes to win office, or to preserve themselves in office, it would be


Today is Tuesday, Feb. 6, the 37th day of 2007. There are 328 days left in the year. On this date in

Opinion: Today is Tuesday, Feb. 6, the 37th day of 2007. There are 328 days left in the year. On this date in


Wanted: Something that's a gas to drive

Opinion: By JACK Z. SMITH MCCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS Ideally, I'd like for my next new car to be made in


Court system's dysfunction on display with trial's delay

Editorial: If it weren't so serious, so troubling and so egregious, it would be comical -- as in the "Who's On


Today's newspaper stories write tomorrow's history

Opinion: Today's newspaper stories write tomorrow's history EDITOR: A cluster of commentaries in The


Today is Monday, Feb. 5, the 36th day of 2007. There are 329 days left in the year. On this date in 1937, President Franklin Roosevelt proposes increasing the number of justices on the U.S. Supreme

Opinion: Today is Monday, Feb. 5, the 36th day of 2007. There are 329 days left in the year. On this date in


Monsanto to reveal political donations

Opinion: By DAVID NICKLAUS ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH A year ago, Monsanto resisted the idea of disclosing


Bush clamps down on regulators

Opinion: WASHINGTON -- There is a point in second U.S. presidential terms when a frustrated chief executive


Budget won't be balanced unless everyone does his part

Opinion: President Bush comes off a weekend marked by his conciliatory trip to a retreat of House Democrats