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It's A Gray Area: Government is meddling in health care
Since my last column about health care appeared in this space, the system has continued to gallop toward disaster. Today, under the federal government's "leadership," we often pay several times more in the United States for the same prescription drugs...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Prescription Drugs, Crime, Law and Justice, Peace Corps, National Government
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Rand Paul has lotsa 'splaining to do
Within hours after Sen. Rand Paul's news-making speech at historically black Howard University, someone posted this new definition on the user-driven Urban Dictionary website of an awkward-sounding but quite timely verb: "whitesplain": "The act of a...
Tags: NAACP, Rachel Maddow, Howard University, Civil Rights, Michael Steele
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Judge Robert Bell: Timeline
July 6, 1943 Robert Mack Bell born in Rocky Mount, N.C.; family moves to Baltimore about 11/2 years later. June 17, 1960 Bell and 11 students try to get seated at Hooper's Restaurant at Charles and Fayette streets in Baltimore. A hostess says the...Tags: Government, Morgan State University, William Donald Schaefer, Marvin Mandel, Regional Authority
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Oswald's gun and the decline of U.S. politics
Next week marks a much-overlooked anniversary: It will be 50 years since Lee Harvey Oswald, under the name A. Hidell, purchased the Italian surplus Carcano M91/38 rifle with which he would eight months later assassinate President John F. Kennedy. Don'...Tags: John F. Kennedy Assassination (1963), Civil Rights, Abraham Lincoln, Same-Sex Marriage, World War II (1939-1945)
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Ed Miller dies at 87; longtime D.A. for San Diego County
Ed Miller, who served as San Diego County district attorney for 24 years and, beginning in the scandal-ridden 1970s, was a major figure in reforming the city's political, business and law enforcement establishment, has died. He was 87. Miller died...
Tags: Liver Cancer, World War II (1939-1945), Ed Miller, Crime, Law and Justice, Murder
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Bush's war, 10 years later
The 10th anniversary of the American invasion of Iraq seems an appropriate time to look back at how it all happened and what it has wrought, not so much for Iraq as for the United States, which poured its own troops, treasure and world reputation into...
Tags: Vietnam War (1955-1975), U.S. Congress, Wars and Interventions, Colin Powell, Baghdad (Iraq)
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Supreme Court must not roll back voting rights
It would be troubling — though perhaps fitting — if Alabama, the state that gave us the Voting Rights Act in 1965 because of its opposition to providing African-American citizens the ability to register and vote, became the state that would...Tags: Government, U.S. Congress, Crime, Law and Justice, Rick Perry, Social Issues
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How the welfare state has grown — and sapped America's economy and culture
"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them." — Thomas Jefferson My recent column on the challenges associated with the Social...
Tags: Poverty, Sociology, Social Security, Crime, Law and Justice, Social Issues
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Who's to blame for our politics? Don't ask
There is a classic "Doonesbury" cartoon, published soon after the Vietnam War ended, in which the antiwar activist Mark Slackmeyer is arguing with his pro-war father. They go back and forth, each blaming the other's politics for everything that's wrong in...
Tags: Government, Abraham Lincoln, Personal Weapon Control, Gun Control, Interior Policy
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William H. Ginsburg dies at 70; Monica Lewinsky's attorney
William H. Ginsburg, a seasoned medical malpractice attorney who bolted to national prominence in the brutal arena of Washington politics as Monica Lewinsky's lawyer, died Monday at his home in Sherman Oaks. He was 70. The cause was cancer, said his...
Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Monica Lewinsky, Medical Procedures and Tests, Crime, Law and Justice, Lawyers
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Oval Office may be Floridian's home
With each passing day, Jeb Bush looks more and more like a presidential candidate. At this stage, he's striking the obligatory, non-committal tone, but he's just come out with a book on immigration reform, is showing up on radio and TV talk shows, and...Tags: Government, Conservative Political Action Conference, John F. Kennedy Assassination (1963), Michele Bachmann, Jeb Bush
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A Dyngus Day for the history books
Forty-five years ago, Bobby Kennedy came to South Bend for the wildest of all Dyngus Days. Kennedy would have been president if he had lived long enough. I was far from sure on that Dyngus Day, as Kennedy campaigned here in a "must win" 1968 Democratic...
Tags: Government, Vietnam War (1955-1975), 2012 Democratic National Convention, Richard Nixon, Regional Authority
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Mar 31, 2013
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