June 20, 2013
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OPAQUE Poverty rate’s meaning obscured by redefinition
In a few months, the government is expected to announce we’re back where we started in President Lyndon Johnson’s “war on poverty.” The official poverty rate will likely be at the highest level sin...
Jul 27, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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Networks’ agendas get in way of facts
Since so many in the media cannot resist turning every tragedy into a political talking point, it was perhaps inevitable that (1) someone would try to link the shooting rampage at the Batman movie ...
Jul 27, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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Texas race is a conservatism contest
The men are so near to each other in all their convictions and theories of life that nothing is left to them but personal competition for the doing of the thing that is to be done. It is the same i...
Jul 26, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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CENSORED Reporters buying access on government’s terms
If you’ve ever thought political reporting reads as if it were written by the politicians who are the subjects of the stories, you weren’t completely off base. A recent report in The New York Ti...
Jul 26, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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REMORSE? Response leads one to ask if Penn State really gets it
The penalties the NCAA handed down against Penn State University are intended to send an unmistakable message to every member institution that some things are more important than football. Even in ...
Jul 25, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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Another attempt to smear the tea party
If ABC News does fire Brian Ross, he could always find a job working for Aaron Sorkin. Ross, a veteran investigative reporter for ABC News, blew it Friday morning when he suggested that the Auro...
Jul 25, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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Global HIV/AIDS battle far from won, but progress is being made
“Everybody knows that pestilences have a way of recurring in the world; yet somehow we find it hard to believe in ones that crash down on our heads from a blue sky.” — Albert Camus, “The Plague” ...
Jul 24, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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MASK War on U.S. energy revival taps emotion to defeat fact
Some opponents of hydraulic fracturing try to compensate for their lack of scientific data with religious fervor. Fracking — a process in which high volumes of chemically treated water, along wi...
Jul 24, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Obama campaign smear sets new low
WASHINGTON — When it comes to over-the-top politics, the Obama campaign has set a new standard with recent attempts to paint Mitt Romney as a felon. This clever and utterly false allegation was ...
Jul 24, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Critical reading of news, views increasingly lacking in society
WASHINGTON — Few instances are more refreshing than the sound of a politician leaving office. This isn’t because we want to see them go, necessarily (though this, too, can be delicious), but bec...
Jul 23, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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