Opinion and Editorial

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Religion is at the heart of terrorism

Opinion: WASHINGTON One of the odder exchanges I’ve ever seen during a congressional hearing involved


Should prostitution be legal?

Opinion: Harry Reid just called for “an adult conversation” about prostitution. OK, I’m in. A few years


Cheating on taxes is on the increase

Opinion: By Peter Goldmark Newsday Sometimes you really have to wonder if most of our society is still


Republicans are cautious about 2012

Opinion: President Obama’s approval rating is above water, but only barely. He’s two or three points below 50


Too many questions on Libya

Opinion: WASHINGTON In September 1941, Japan’s leaders had a question for Adm. Isoroku Yamamoto: Could he


Behold hidden welfare state

Opinion: Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what your country has done for you lately. With


Kasich touts Valley in speech; will action follow his words?

Editorial: By this time next week, Ohio Gov. John Kasich’s first biennium budget will be subjected to close


Unions are for unions, not workers

Opinion: The biggest myth about labor unions is that unions are for the workers. Unions are for unions, just


In the cross hairs

Opinion: By Barry Goldman Los Angeles Times Who are these evil workers who throw away our tax dollars so


Police: How few is too few?

Opinion: Stamford (Conn.) Advocate: Most of the public discussion about Police Department staffing in the


Elections have consequences

Opinion: Elections have consequences This letter is directed main- ly at lazy, uninformed or misinformed


Don’t repeal long-term care program

Opinion: By Howard Gleckman McClatchy-Tribune One of the key battles over the fate of the landmark 2010


Keep partisan politics out of election reform in Ohio

Editorial: In the numerous editorials pub- lished in this space about Ohio’s broken election system, there has


Rethink arm sales to Arabs

Opinion: For many years American policy has been to sell modern weaponry to Arab states. The reasons given


Fouling clean air?

Opinion: By Dan Becker and James Gerstenzang McClatchy-Tribune Largely hidden in its attack on the