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A U.S. District judge in South Carolina ruled last week that it was illegal for the state to promote Christianity on license plates. At issue was a plan by Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer to offer a car tag with the words, "I Believe." The tag also would feature a large cross and a replica of a stained-glass window.
Phillip Tutor: A German's message for McClellan
I didn’t ask Karl Eschrig if he thought McClellan’s military heritage should not only be preserved, but promoted, marketed and enhanced. My mistake.
I didn’t ask Karl Eschrig if he thought McClellan’s military heritage should not only be preserved, but promoted, marketed and enhanced. My mistake.
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The wrong message: Stick with mammograms
On Monday, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force took a step backward in the fight against breast cancer. The task force announced that it would no longer recommend routine mammograms for women between the ages of 40 and 49, a group that accounts for about one out of six breast cancers. The recommendation is based on data that find that mammograms do reduce the risk of death in these women, but apparently not enough deaths to recommend that all women 40 to 49 should be screened.
On Monday, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force took a step backward in the fight against breast cancer. The task force announced that it would no longer recommend routine mammograms for women between the ages of 40 and 49, a group that accounts for about one out of six breast cancers. The recommendation is based on data that find that mammograms do reduce the risk of death in these women, but apparently not enough deaths to recommend that all women 40 to 49 should be screened.
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The party of fiscal babies
Nearly every Republican these days calls for tax cuts and lower deficits, and in the same sentence. Point out that these goals clash — that taxes pay for government and not paying for government causes deficits, and the Republican counters, “We must shrink government, instead.”
Nearly every Republican these days calls for tax cuts and lower deficits, and in the same sentence. Point out that these goals clash — that taxes pay for government and not paying for government causes deficits, and the Republican counters, “We must shrink government, instead.”
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A marriage made in China
President Obama’s trip to China has occasioned a spate of articles documenting the increasingly unhappy yet apparently indissoluble marriage between the American and Chinese economies. As The Post wrote on Monday, those economies “have become inextricably intertwined, locked in a kind of co-dependency that neither side thinks is particularly healthy.”
President Obama’s trip to China has occasioned a spate of articles documenting the increasingly unhappy yet apparently indissoluble marriage between the American and Chinese economies. As The Post wrote on Monday, those economies “have become inextricably intertwined, locked in a kind of co-dependency that neither side thinks is particularly healthy.”
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Bypassing the Karzai problem
MAIDAN SHAHR , Afghanistan — Is there any way to get around Afghan President Hamid Karzai? This question dominates the U.S. debate as President Obama prepares to announce his long-delayed Afghan strategy.
MAIDAN SHAHR , Afghanistan — Is there any way to get around Afghan President Hamid Karzai? This question dominates the U.S. debate as President Obama prepares to announce his long-delayed Afghan strategy.
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Running from 11 deaths
About two weeks into the coverage of the Imperial Avenue murders in Cleveland, some women from more privileged neighborhoods began to complain about the coverage. As Cleveland Plain Dealer Managing Editor Debra Adams Simmons told me, the theme has been essentially this: Stop putting these stories on Page One. They are not relevant to the majority of your readers.
About two weeks into the coverage of the Imperial Avenue murders in Cleveland, some women from more privileged neighborhoods began to complain about the coverage. As Cleveland Plain Dealer Managing Editor Debra Adams Simmons told me, the theme has been essentially this: Stop putting these stories on Page One. They are not relevant to the majority of your readers.
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Harvey H. Jackson: It ain't easy being Newt
Throughout the year, I clip articles that might, with a little additional work, be turned into prize-winning columns — or, at the least, fill in the gap while I am trying to figure what comes next. Column-writing is hard work.
Throughout the year, I clip articles that might, with a little additional work, be turned into prize-winning columns — or, at the least, fill in the gap while I am trying to figure what comes next. Column-writing is hard work.
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While Congress was debating the final version of the health-care bill earlier this month, many of us were manning the phones, making calls to chiefs of staff of members of Congress who were wringing their hands over whether to vote for the massive governmental takeover of our health care system.
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I am disgusted in the Alabama unemployment compensation system. Due to a medical problem, I had to quit a job I held for one week in May; it was understood this job was on a trial basis. I have proof of my medical problem, but I was denied unemployment benefits. My appeal failed.
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WASHINGTON — No force on earth can stop Sarah Palin from becoming our very own "lite" version of Eva Peron — a glamorous and tragic legend, minus the tragedy. Eventually, some clever composer will write a blockbuster musical about her life and times. Stage directions will include: "SARAH fires gun. MOOSE dies."
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NEW YORK — The 20th century was 100 years of amplitude. It overflowed with barbarous fighting faiths, wars enveloping continents, and graphic journalism assaulting global audiences with scenes of shocking immediacy.
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The Tea Party Express made a stop in Alabama last week. According to its Web site, the Tea Party Express is a grassroots movement "determined to take our country back!"
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They killed a killer last week. I kept waiting to feel something when news came that John Allen Muhammad had been executed in Virginia. As a staunch opponent of capital punishment, I wanted some nugget of remorse at the knowledge that the government had taken his life.
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Both left- and right-wing accounts of the mass murder at Fort Hood are haunted by the specter of "political correctness."
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