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SHOULD our litmus test for politicians be whether or not the district attorney decides to file criminal charges against them?
If so, it's akin to believing that because President Clinton said he did "not have sex with that woman," and because his. Read Full Artice...
MAYBE new legislative leaders in California have given up even pretending to pay attention to the public mood.
During a ceremonial inauguration ceremony last week, Assembly Speaker John A. Read Full Artice...
MANY of us who have declined to make the time to follow Europe's economic problems in depth have a really good excuse: We have economic problems of our own. Read Full Artice...
IF only Russia and China would get on board with sanctions against Iran, the argument in Washington goes, the full economic pinch would bring Tehran to its knees and force curtailment of its nuclear ambitions. Read Full Artice...
NOWHERE do the two most talked about issues in Washington - jobs and health care - come together more clearly than in the training of future nurses. Read Full Artice...
AS a candidate for president, Sen. Barack Obama rejected "the politics of fear." Well, he won. So now he's playing the fear card to the hilt. Read Full Artice...
HERE'S a phrase you can expect to hear a lot in the next few days: "According to the CBO."
The CBO is the Congressional Budget Office, the official scorekeeper of the costs of proposed legislation. Read Full Artice...
DOUBLING down on dubious bets is characteristic of compulsive gamblers and federal education policy. The nation was essentially without such policy for grades K through 12, and better off for that, until 1965. Read Full Artice...
MARCH is National Kidney Month - a good time to trumpet the bad news about the growing organ shortage.
Today, 83,000 people wait for a new kidney, a record high. Perhaps one in five will actually receive one this year. Read Full Artice...
IN a swindle that would make Bernie Madoff look like an amateur, Barack Obama has gotten a substantial segment of the population to believe that he can add millions of people to the government-insured rolls without increasing the already record-breaking. Read Full Artice...
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