Horse Or Camel?

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BY FROMA HARROP A camel, the old saying goes, is a horse made by committee. We don’t want camel health reform. We don’t want Washington lawmakers debating whether it should have one hump or two. We want a horse – a sleek machine that performs with efficiency. One may prefer that landmark legislation enjoy wide bipartisan support. That’s the ideal. But the health-care system has too many moving parts to allow for much ideological tinkering, […]

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Missing Voice

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FRANK P. BELCASTRO Dubuque, IA Congress passed the National Voter Registration Act in 1993 to increase the number of eligible citizens registering to...

Open Letter To Ivan Holmes

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BY EDWIN E. VINEYARD I have attended several Democratic affairs where you were present and reported on what you were doing as party chairman. I...

George Will’s Truthiness

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FRANK P. BELCASTRO Dubuque, IA George Will is having trouble with the truth again. Will argues, "Reducing carbon emissions supposedly will reverse warming, which is...

Why ‘Black’?

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BY RON DU BOIS Barack Obama's skin color is similar to that of many Latinos yet we don't call Latinos "black." The skin tone of Native...
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