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With All Due Respect

Arnold Hamilton - February 18, 2009 0

BY SUSAN ESTRICH The purpose of being a columnist is not to win friends. It is not to provoke silent nods of agreement. The goal is to strike a chord, hit a nerve – which is to say, at least sometimes, make people mad. Controversy is good, not bad. So you write what you think, […]

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Stimulating Partisanship

Arnold Hamilton - February 16, 2009 0

BY EDWIN E. VINEYARD Barack Obama was swept into the presidency on the audacious platform of change, including change from the old partisanship of Washington...

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At Capitol, It’s Toga Time

Arnold Hamilton - February 13, 2009 0

BY RICHARD L. FRICKER It's Toga Time! Republican members of the Oklahoma House and Senate should be required to wear togas, an affirmation of the...

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Live To Risk

Arnold Hamilton - February 13, 2009 0

BY SUSAN ESTRICH Why would someone risk his life by, as the LA Times described, “extending his body away from a motorcycle and grabbing the seat as the motorcycle is upside down, then pulling back aboard as the motorcycle is righted before landing”? Or not. In which case, as it was with 24-year-old Jeremy Lusk, […]

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