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Fragile families fail

Opinion: By Kay S. HYMOWITZ Los Angeles Times Poverty is on the rise, according to census data, and now


Peace is but an illusion

Opinion: If the definition of insanity is repeating the same mistake over and over again, then U.S.


Frisco’s plan to fight obesity in children is hard to stomach

Editorial: In the land of the wacky and the home of the absurd, the big fat hands of Big Brother are trying to


Commutation was appalling

Opinion: Commutation was appalling I am appalled by what I have just read that our governor has commuted


Filling the budget hole

Opinion: Filling the budget hole Findlay Courier: Ohio’s budget hole, estimated to be about $8 billion,


Vote suggests a ‘dumbed-down’ US

Opinion: By William McCartney Other Words As pundits and politicians argue about what the GOP midterm


Begin debating body scanners, but don’t shut down air travel

Editorial: It’s not as if no one knew that full body scanners were coming to an airport near you. Congress


Lame ducks should kill dual mandate of the Fed

Opinion: This lame-duck Congress — its mandate exhausted, many of its members repudiated — should merely fund


Meddling by Obama, EPA will prove costly

Opinion: By Justin Danhof National Centerf for Public Policy Research President Barack Obama has now


Like Piaf, Bush regrets nothing

Opinion: It was, or so I thought, a dandy column idea: an imaginary, missing chapter of George W. Bush’s


Lessons to learn from South Korea

Opinion: When the presidents of Brazil, Mexico and Argentina attended the G-20 meeting of the world’s biggest


Iraq reclaims yacht

Opinion: By Ali Abu Iraq Institute for War & Peace Reporting BASRA, Iraq Iraqi officials have acquired


During drilling boom, property owners seek common ground

Editorial: The action of 250 landowners in Columbiana County to organize an educational and service group on


Sleeping sheep get fleeced

Opinion: Sleeping sheep get fleeced Our ship of state has twice been wrecked in a democratic ditch! Some


Bailouts have worked

Opinion: Bailouts have worked Philadelphia Inquirer: Former President George W. Bush chuckled when an