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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Foster kids need you

By Ruth McRoy / / As You Were Saying . . .

Children needing placement are an average of 8 years old and many of them have been in foster care for several years. Targeting...

2 Comments

Not to our health

By Deroy Murdock

As the Senate weighs a 2,074-page health care “reform” bill, supporters of a government option for medical coverage consider this the finest federal...

Real men don’t spin lettuce in a vacuum

By Roger Simon

The phone rings. It is my friend, Larry. “Catch you at a bad time?” he asks. No, no, I pant. Why? “You seem out of breath.” ...

World won’t bow for Obama’s sake

By Michael Barone

On his 10-day trip to Asia and in his 10th month in office, Barack Obama is beginning to encounter limits on his ambition to change the world. Even as he bowed...

Friday, November 20, 2009

The sister saved may be yours

By Lynne K. Varner

Obviously, I am not more knowledgeable about breast cancer than a government-led panel of experts. Yet I know enough to look...

8 Comments

Don’t throw book at her

By Jonah Goldberg

Slate magazine is just one of the countless media outlets convulsing with St. Vitus’ Dance over that succubus Sarah...

38 Comments

Swing and miss in China visit

By Peter Brookes

If you were troubled by President Barack Obama’s “Wow Bow” in Japan, you won’t be any happier with...

16 Comments

Thursday, November 19, 2009

Liberal choice is to limit health options

By George F. Will

PHOENIX - In 2006, long before there was an Obama administration determined to impose a command-and-control federal health...

13 Comments

Workers worked over

By Michael Graham

According to my dad, when I was just 10 years old and he was trying to get me to help with some household chore, I (allegedly)...

42 Comments

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

PLA rocked Plymouth studio

By Jerry Simmer

It’s tough to finance any project in this economy. Financing one that costs tens of millions of dollars more than necessary...

9 Comments

Terror’s day in court

Holder: Temporary insanity’s his and Obama’s.

By Jonah Goldberg

I get where President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder are coming from....

19 Comments

A flawed case for law school

By Richard J. Lawton and Kenneth A. MacAfee II

It is unfortunate that the University of Massachusetts is again the focus of criticism and public embarrassment due to a...

5 Comments

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

No crying over spilled (white) milk

By Chicago Tribune editorial staff

The following editorial ran in the Chicago Tribune: When we learned there was a backlash against chocolate milk, we were...

6 Comments

Holiday jeer in Chelmsford

By Michael Graham

It’s that most wonderful time of the year. The malls are filled with snowflakes, the oldies radio stations are...

56 Comments

Best cure: Payroll tax cut

Dr. Obama: Pulling plug on ailing economy.

By Michael Barone

Barack Obama told the House Democratic Caucus before the roll call vote on health...

10 Comments

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