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Pact keeps barriers in place

Opinion: By Alan Tonelson McClatchy-Tribune WASHINGTON President Obama’s pursuit of free trade with


Hard times are taking a psychic toll

Opinion: Recessions are not only depressing, they’re downright boring. I don’t mean to make light of the real


The job: Work together, avoid distractions and keep promises

Editorial: There’s a scene in the TV show “Seinfeld” in which Jerry finds that the car he had reserved is not


Is Latin America shaky?

Opinion: There have been big headlines in recent weeks about projections that Brazil will become the world’s


Korea trade pact benefits US

Opinion: By Thomas J. DONOHUE McClatchy-Tribune WASHINGTON A funny thing happened in the wake of the


Ark won’t float on tax dollars

Opinion: Ark won’t float on tax dollars While the Vindicator can’t be expected to fact check editorials


Drilling in the Gulf

Opinion: The Watertown (N.Y.) Daily Times: The moratorium on drilling for oil in the Gulf of Mexico was


Ohio’s top higher ed advocate pushes hard for state funding

Editorial: As president of Ohio’s flagship university, Ohio State, Gordon Gee has the burden of making the case


Areas to watch for progress

Opinion: I hope that 2011 will provide better foreign policy stories than 2010 did. Consider this woeful


Let’s strive for compromise

Opinion: By Michael Dawidziak Newsday The No. 1 political story of 2010 was the defeat handed to


Out of control, by choice

Opinion: “our flesh Surrounds us with its own decisions” — Philip Larkin WASHINGTON Wonder why you


No housing market woes

Opinion: “Housing Market Setback Forecast” the newspaper headline said. A recently released report on housing


Another view of Wilson

Opinion: By Dr. PAUL KENGOR Special to The Vindicator On the heels of a recent Sunday magazine profile of


Obama back in the center

Opinion: By Richard Wolffe Los Angeles Times For someone who is supposedly cool and detached, President


Constitution must guide us

Opinion: The new House Republican leadership is smart to inaugurate their return to power by reading aloud