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The Hundred Days

Arnold Hamilton - April 22, 2009 0

BY SUSAN ESTRICH Watch out. Everywhere you look, the talking heads are going to be talking about Barack Obama’s first hundred days. Did he end the war in Iraq? Not yet. Turn the economy around? I’d have to say not yet. The EPA has been making moves, and there’s a new proposed rule on stem […]

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Awash In A Sea Of Idiocy

Arnold Hamilton - April 22, 2009 1

BY EDWIN E. VINEYARD There are times when one feels he is being mentally "water-boarded." One feels the utter torture of strangling and drowning in...

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Blowhard, To A Texas Tea

Arnold Hamilton - April 21, 2009 0

BY SUSAN ESTRICH Listen to Texas Gov. Rick Perry. “We’ve got a great union. There’s absolutely no reason to dissolve it. But if Washington continues to thumb their nose at the American people, you know, who knows what might come out of that.” No, governor, I don’t know. “Texas is a very unique place, and […]

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Bottom Line For The Already Insured

Arnold Hamilton - April 21, 2009 0

BY FROMA HARROP The hardest group to sell on national health reform is those who don’t desperately need it. That would include Americans who already have coverage through a workplace, about 160 million in all, and are reasonably happy with their deal. The comfortably insured are always the target for scare-talk about rationing, loss of […]

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The Constitutionality Of The Commandments

Arnold Hamilton - April 21, 2009 0

BY DANNY M. ADKISON The state legislature of Oklahoma keeps moving closer to allowing placement of a granite monument of the Ten Commandments on the...