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Containing Iran; Failure to leave Iraq; Fixing the contracts; Health care for children
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As a teenager, I found the ghosts mostly a social embarrassment.
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Wednesday, October 31, 2007 It must be Halloween. The man who shot President John F. Kennedy is back in the news this week. (This verdict of history is not fully accepted; apologies to the conspiratorial-minded.
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Tuesday, October 30, 2007 The Leander school district board is considering including a second language, most likely Spanish, as part of the curriculum for elementary students. Happily, the proposal enjoys widespread support in our community. But it is also a reminder, as California Gov.
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Tuesday, October 30, 2007 Has America become a mean, ungenerous, cramped and crabby nation, a deeply insecure colossus — one that just might be taking all those Viagra and Cialis commercials a bit too personally?
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Tuesday, October 30, 2007 Stupid. So stupid. You've felt it too — when you've been driving and have felt the need to communicate to another person or driver by sign language. Works great, doesn't it? The other day I did that, and felt so stupid in the aftermath.
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The Competition Commission wants to see more supermarkets built to benefit consumers. Is there a supermarket near you?
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When a member of Congress announces his or her retirement, especially in a contentious district, the incumbent party often faces a burden in avoiding a contentious primary, supporting a first-time candidate financially and reestablishing the good will the incumbent brought....
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Stan Greenberg, Al Quinlan and James Carville lay out the good news for Democrats in their latest survey before delivering a warning to the party and its presidential candidates: For all that, Democrats have yet not found their voice as...
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Jeff Simpson has a point about this year's World Series of Poker: This year's winner, Jerry Yang, a Laotian-American from California, was way more likable than the obnoxious Gold, but the unassuming therapist found a way to annoy me during...
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Following Barack Obama, who said he would vote against Mukasey, and John Edwards, here's Clinton's statement on why she opposes the attorney general nominee: We need an Attorney General who has the strength to challenge this Administration when it is...
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The way the candidates litigated could say something about how they?d lead.
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A Muslim takes a rich Hindu bride and ends up mysteriously dead.
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Can the fast-growing exurbs that ring Los Angeles and San Diego protect themselves from the inevitable next big blaze?
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The first regular-season National Football League game played outside of North America brings the American version of the sport full circle.
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The Senate should reverse Bush's 2001 executive order repealing public access to presidential papers enshrined in the Presidential Records Act of 1978.
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Abuse of market power to protect a monopoly hurts consumers and hinders innovation.
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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security should respond fully to inquiries about its plan to monitor government and private communications.
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It is wonderful to think of today's Chinese youth driving around in an MG.
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Americans want the government to change so their own lives can stay the same.
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The transport of women across international borders to serve as prostitutes stirs very little outrage.
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Many of the men who hope to be the next president have made unreasoning, unjustified terror the centerpiece of their campaigns.
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Chinese investors have jumped at the chance to invest abroad.
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Africa is looking for marriages of convenience with willing investors.
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America has a big problem with illegal immigration, but a big part of it stems from the word 'illegal.'
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