May 19, 2013
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Tax policy placing jobs in jeopardy
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Bill Hewlett and David Packard, tinkering in a California garage, began what became Hewlett-Packard. Steve Jobs and a friend built a computer in the California garage that becam...
May 10, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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EPIDEMIC Startling child obesity stats call for coordinated action
The following editorial appeared in Newsday on Sunday, May 6: Type 2 diabetes was once known as the “adult onset” type, because it came on only in adulthood. But youth no longer confers immun...
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Romney misplayed Grenell issue
“If Mitt Romney can be pushed around, intimidated, coerced, co-opted by a conservative radio talk show host in Middle America, then how is he going to stand up to the Chinese? How is he going to st...
May 09, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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CHALLENGE France, Germany must keep focus on fiscal responsibility
The following editorial appeared in the Chicago Tribune on Tuesday, May 8: Sunday’s elections in France and Greece provided a jolting confirmation of some old verities. Such as: When times are b...
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Drone strikes a just defense
WASHINGTON — Scrolling through the headlines in The Long War Journal — a website dedicated to terrorism-related news — is an education in the global drone war. Mohammed Saeed al-Umda, one of Osama ...
May 08, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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U.S. should remain a beacon of freedom, protector of human rights
WASHINGTON — News that Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng and his family might be allowed to leave China for a university fellowship in the U.S. brought relief not only to Chen, but also to dissiden...
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REVERSAL Illegal immigration down, still poses challenge
The following editorial appeared in the Dallas Morning News April 30: During the economic boom of the late 1990s, about 3 million Mexican immigrants entered the United States, the vast majority ...
May 08, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Cynical politics a winner for Obama
EDITOR’S NOTE: Following is the last of two columns on cynical politics. A small headline in the 2nd section of the Wall Street Journal last week told a bigger story than a lot of front page ban...
May 07, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Edelen deserves kudos for government transparency
Actor Ed Norton warned: “Fame is very corrosive and you have to guard very strictly against it.” Unfortunately for Richie Farmer, star guard for the 1992 University of Kentucky Wildcats, a new r...
May 07, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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PINOCCHIO Fact checker needed in the White House
The president received four Pinocchios from The Fact Checker in the Washington Post Monday for what the newspaper called “Obama’s whopper about an Ohio River bridge.” The president should have k...
May 06, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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