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Feds won’t get a pass on probe

Opinion: In response to this writer’s December column urging the FBI and federal prosecutors to clean up the


Death knell for Internet cafes

Editorial: As if opponents of Ohio’s seedy network of 800 Internet cafes did not already have enough ammunition


Does age matter for judges?

Opinion: How old is too old to be a judge? Thirty-three states have mandatory retirement for judges,


Limited gun restrictions don’t violate the Second Amendment

Opinion: Limited gun restrictions don’t violate the Second Amendment After this last terrible shooting in


Senate won’t expand access

Opinion: COLUMBUS Two big thumbs up to state Rep. Ron Amstutz and the Republican leaders of the Ohio House


Egypt’s future looking bleak with latest political upheaval

Editorial: Just days after U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry announced in Cairo that the Obama administration


Democracy in action

Opinion: Capital Journal, Pierre, S.D.: They made the trek to Pierre a second time last weekend, just as they


Syria offer woefully lacking

Opinion: Biscuits and Band-Aids. Those two words sum up the farcical “new” policy toward Syria that


Thoughts better left unsaid

Opinion: Minot Daily News, Minot, N.D.: It’s never a good idea to refer to someone as a Nazi, especially when


Detroit’s problems are deeply rooted

Opinion: By Scott Martelle Los Angeles Times Michigan’s Republican governor, Rick Snyder, took the


A new approach to Cuba

Opinion: By Michael D. BARNES The Baltimore Sun Unfortunately, our nation faces enormous challenges in


Invest in the currency of democracy: information

Editorial: The principal architect of Amer- ica’s Declaration of Independence once said, “Information is the


Jeb Bush alienates Hispanics

Opinion: What Pete Wilson did for California, Jeb Bush would apparently like to do for the rest of the


Tricky political proposition

Opinion: Reducing voting precincts is tricky — more so for the political implications than the ease of those


Fiscal crisis reflects lack of trust

Opinion: Here’s what is most maddening about the “Perils of Pauline” fiscal crises that President Obama and