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New methamphetamine law

Opinion: Winston-Salem Journal: State officials are very pleased with the immediate effects of a new law that


Liberty faces up-hill climb

Opinion: Liberty faces up-hill climb Liberty school district, I pray for your recovery. You have been led


Obama sets sights on Arizona

Opinion: PHOENIX Presidential travel, especially in an election year, offers an insight into the favored


Political tensions rise in Iraq

Opinion: By Abeer Mohammed The Institute for War & Peace Reporting BAGHDAD On the surface, it would


Presidential sweepstakes will undermine economic recovery

Editorial: President Barack Obama and Dem- ocrats on Capitol Hill should disabuse themselves of the idea that


Obama has ‘common’ touch

Opinion: The State of the Union address is a political exercise in the best of times. But when a president is


A Mickey Mouse complaint

Opinion: One way to to judge where the Arab uprisings are headed, a year after they erupted, is to consider


GOP voters rejecting Mitt

Opinion: Just days before the South Carolina primary, polls showed Mitt Romney leading Newt Gingrich. Then


Sometimes speed doesn’t kill

Opinion: Sometimes speed doesn’t kill Marietta Times: First, Ohio Turnpike Commission reported a record


Diabetes is an epidemic

Opinion: By Susan Levin McClatchy-Tribune It’s not the sweet tea. It’s the butter, the beef, and the


Romney’s time to step up

Opinion: WASHINGTON An Illinois lawyer who had a way with words once characterized a particular argument as


A cowardly captain’s rising through the ranks defies logic

Editorial: It is difficult to imagine how Fran- cesco Schettino ever became the captain of a ship, entrusted


Local school boards crucial

Opinion: By Betsy Cavendish McClatchy-Tribune The nation is riveted by the Republican primary elections


To every nonproblem there is a perfectly impractical solution

Opinion: To every nonproblem there is a perfectly impractical solution I have been following the dis-


Let him do his job

Opinion: By Robert Henderson Baltimore Sun President Barack Obama’s recess appointment to direct the