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Santorum lays it on the line

Opinion: DUBLIN, N.H. You’ve got to give this much to Rick Santorum: The man doesn’t hold back. He


End band hazing

Opinion: By Starita Smith McClatchy-Tribune Here’s my wish for the new year: an end to violent hazing in


Tax reform can’t be done in vacuum

Opinion: By Leslie B. SAMUELS Los Angeles Times Ideas for improving the federal tax system are launched


Iran’s leader on a ‘tour of tyrants’

Opinion: Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad will be visiting Latin America this week for the fifth time


Internet caf s are not alone in ‘running under the radar’

Editorial: When Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine visited a Dayton area Internet caf to highlight the absence


Liberals create a behemoth

Opinion: WASHINGTON Liberals have a rendezvous with regret. Their largest achievement is today’s


US abandons Iraqi ‘helpers’

Opinion: Last week, I spoke on the PBS “NewsHour” about Iraqis who worked for our civilians and military


Sending a message to Warren massage parlors that go too far

Editorial: A website that keeps track of such things as massage parlors that traffic in sex says Ohio has 23


A leaner fighting machine

Opinion: A leaner fighting machine Los Angeles Times: Budgetary necessity may have been the mother of


Things said that don’t ring true

Opinion: Things said that don’t ring true At the Dec. 28 public meet ing on the planned closing of the


Wealth rises to top

Opinion: By Jim Hightower OtherWords As an old country saying puts it, “Money is like manure — it does no


Right-to-work is right for America

Opinion: By James Sherk Heritage Foundation Who could fault a worker who did not pay dues to the


Predictions for the new year

Opinion: After toying with the idea of being Democratic Gov. Ted Strickland’s lieutenant governor running


Energy: Our No. 1 challenge

Opinion: The recent interest in Utica Shale has me recalling a meeting I attended in 2003, during which Nobel


Trial selection is on trial

Opinion: The Sixth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees, to every person accused of a crime, the