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GUEST COLUMN: The God of the tornado
by Carol Megathlin, guest columnist
May 22, 2013 | 3 3 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
My husband Bill and I switched on the news Monday night to resume watching coverage of the tornado that had just struck Moore, Okla. Perhaps because we had just returned from Bible study, I said, “...
GUEST COLUMN: The real IRS scandal
by Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times
May 21, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
It’s strange how “scandal” gets defined these days in Washington. At the moment, everyone is screaming about the “scandal” of the Internal Revenue Service scrutinizing conservative nonprofits befor...
GUEST COLUMN: Gatsby and the McJobs Rebellion
by Dorian T. Warren, McClatchy Tribune
May 20, 2013 | 1 1 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
“Great Gatsby,” meet Raise Up Milwaukee. And New York. And Chicago. And St. Louis. And Detroit. How ironic that while the film is recreating a past era of excess and greed, employees in the fast-fo...
GUEST COLUMN: Angelina Jolie starts the breast cancer conversation
by Susan Reimer, The Baltimore Sun
May 20, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
“Mom. Do you have that gene? Do I? Have you been tested? I thought Grandma had breast cancer. Why weren’t you ever tested?” The questions from my 27-year-old daughter were coming fast. Angelina Jol...
COLUMN: Bank on the natural light of trees downtown
by Pierre-Rene Noth, columnist
May 19, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
THE LIGHTS probably are going out in the nostalgic hearts of many Romans upon hearing that Broad Street’s guiding beacons are planning to remove the downtown boulevard’s white fairy lights in the t...
GUEST COLUMN: Benjamin Franklin: Defense witness for Manning
by Russ Castronovo, McClatchy Tribune
May 15, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
Bradley Manning should call Benjamin Franklin to his defense. Any day now, a military court will sentence Manning, possibly to life in prison, for leaking confidential documents. Government prosecu...
GUEST COLUMN: IRS unites nation with shoddy treatment of Tea Party groups
by Robin Abcarian, Los Angeles Times
May 15, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
Finally, a small cadre of busybody bureaucrats has discovered a way to bring this divided country together. Thank you, IRS, for pulling off what no politician has been able to do. Mortal political ...
GUEST COLUMN: Ted Cruz’s Rocket Ride
by Matt Mackowiak, Guest Columnist
May 14, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
The National Review Online story about Ted Cruz and 2016 created a national stir, reporting one of the party’s fastest rising stars is “considering” a 2016 bid. Sen. Cruz quickly expressed his own ...
GUEST COLUMN: Religion and the nature of the U.S. armed forces
by Lawrence Wilkerson, McClatchy Tribune
May 14, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
About a month ago, I joined the advisory board of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) to replace Glen Doherty, a former Navy SEAL and member of the board who had recently been killed i...
GUEST COLUMN: Hack attacks and meltdown moments
by Bart Chilton, McClatchy-Tribune
May 13, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
The confluence of social networks and business technology is so tightly linked today that it requires thinking anew about responsibility and requirements to keep us protected. Social networks, Face...
GUEST COLUMN: After hospital care, the test begins
by Beth Ann Swan, Los Angeles Times
May 13, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
In 2011, my husband, Eric, was felled by a brain stem stroke just before he was to board a flight at O’Hare in Chicago. He was just 53 years old with no prior health conditions or problems. From th...
GUEST COLUMN: Rodney Dangerfield’s blind date
by Jack Runninger, Guest Columnist
May 12, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
“I ALWAYS HAD A HARD TIME trying to get a date with a girl,” lamented Rodney Dangerfield. “So a friend once fixed me up with a blind date with a girl named Lillian. I was supposed to meet her on th...
GUEST COLUMN: Another kind of gun control
by David M. Kennedy, Los Angeles Times
May 10, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
Supporters of a measure that would have expanded background checks for firearm purchases decried the bill’s death in the Senate last month. But was the defeat really such a bad thing? Had it passed...
GUEST COLUMN: Georgia: Expanding the girth of state government
May 09, 2013 | 1 1 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
Despite the tough times in Georgia, our leaders keep expanding state government by centralizing more power in Atlanta, spending more of our tax dollars and increasing our taxes. The state-funded p...
GUEST COLUMN: GOP strategy – sabotage Obama, accuse him of failure
by Barbara Shelly, The Kansas City Star
May 09, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
Pat Toomey, the U.S. senator from Pennsylvania who broke ranks with the GOP and joined Democrat Joe Manchin in sponsoring a bill demanding universal background checks for gun purchases, had some in...
GUEST COLUMN: Internet tax levels local playing field
by Buzz Wachsteter, city commissioner
May 08, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
Oh Pierre, you are wrong ... again. Your column in Sunday’s paper on the Marketplace Fairness Act is so wrong, you obviously have not read any of the materials surrounding the act nor had any first...
  • GUEST COLUMN: The curse of Barack Obama
    by By Gregory Clay, McClatchy-Tribune News Service
    05.07.13 - 06:33 am
  • COLUMN: Brick, mortar and Internet taxes
    by Pierre-Rene Noth, Columnist
    05.05.13 - 06:30 am
  • GUEST COLUMN: Help feed the birds, animals
    by Bernice Couey Bishop Anderson, Guest Columnist
    05.02.13 - 06:57 am
  • A LAW on the books in the District since the mid-1990s gives charter schools first priority to vacated public school buildings. Sadly, that hasn’t prevented city officials from hoarding the properties, selling them off to private interests or, most appalling, letting them rot while deserving charter schools scrounge for space or turn students away. So the decision by Mayor Vincent C. Gray (D) to make more room for the District’s growing charter sector is an encouraging, albeit overdue, step forward.

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    Thu May 23 20:42:08 UTC 2013

    WHY DIDN’T Congress know earlier that the Internal Revenue Service had targeted conservative groups for special scrutiny? In days of hearings, lawmakers have tried to get a satisfactory answer from witnesses under oath. They haven’t succeeded.

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    Thu May 23 20:22:48 UTC 2013

    FOUR YEARS almost to the day since outlining a vision of how to fight terrorism, President Obama traveled Thursday to the National Defense University to deliver a self-evaluation, course correction and proposed way forward. The speech offered some valuable explanations of administration action and opened the door to constructive negotiation with Congress, while leaving unanswered some key questions.

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    Thu May 23 20:22:00 UTC 2013

    Today we publish a commentary by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), arguing against legislation to require expanded campaign finance disclosure. The senator points to the current furor over how the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) mishandled applications from tea party and other conservative groups for tax-exempt status under Section 501(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code. We certainly agree with him that the IRS failed to meet basic standards of fairness in selectively pressing the groups for more information and in delaying their applications.

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