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Let’s drug test lawmakers

Opinion: COLUMBUS I like it when lawmakers get creative. I don’t mean in the accounting sense, where they


Cantor puts disaster relief at risk

Opinion: By Dick Polman Philadelphia Inquirer The ethos of Ebenezer Scrooge is now infecting federal


Nightmare on Penn Avenue

Opinion: In advance of a “major speech” on the economy and jobs, President Obama has selected Princeton


DeWine joins fight to protect Great Lakes from invasion

Editorial: It is a sad commentary when a ma- jority of the Great Lakes states have to band together to seek


Some gaffes troubling

Opinion: While in China last week, Vice President Biden mistakenly said we own 85 percent of U.S. Treasury


President should act boldly

Opinion: An opposition-controlled Congress was giving the president fits. His job approval had dropped into


Who is spending what?

Opinion: Who is spending what? Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Horse patooie. That’s mostly what got shoveled


How conservative are Johnson, Kelly?

Opinion: Freshmen U.S. Reps. Bill Johnson of Marietta, R-6th, and Mike Kelly of Butler, Pa., R-3rd, proudly


Union dues fund anti-SB 5 fight

Opinion: Union dues fund anti-SB 5 fight There has been a misconcep tion that union funds do not go toward


Pan Am bomber’s death won’t close the book on terror attack

Editorial: If members of his family are to be believed, mass murderer Abdel Baset Ali al-Megrahi could well be


Natural disaster aftermath

Opinion: Southeast Missourian: Rebuilding after a natural disaster can be a daunting undertaking. But when a


Gov. Perry’s book revealing

Opinion: WASHINGTON Rick Perry is no George W. Bush. This is not a compliment. Perry’s 2010 tea party-


Is this economy so unusual?

Opinion: Many in the media are saying how unusual it is for our economy to be so sluggish for so long, after


Colorado’s political brew purple

Opinion: DENVER “Beer,” said Benjamin Franklin, who knew a thing or two about pleasure, “is living proof


Mr. GM is an old friend

Opinion: By Stephen Baker Los Angeles Times “Corporations are people, my friend.” Mitt Romney, said while