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Brace for the boomerang of renewed tea-party rage
The IRS scandal over targeting tea-party groups is a boomerang, writes Froma Harrop. Give the tea-party people a boomerang, and moderate Republicans will get ...
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How Eisenhowers ban on gays backfired Column
"I Like Ike" cartoon from 1952. But they had no idea who President Dwight Eisenhower was. Hormones and a warm, spring day can explain the lack of interest in dead presidents. Two boys in the front row held hands the whole time I spoke.I wanted to stop the lecture and tell the affectionate boys they should thank Eisenhower if they're going to prom together. The Glee-era high school ...
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AP phone flap makes freedom of press popular Column
A new shield law has to protect the function of journalism regardless of medium or business model. Suddenly, freedom of the press is very, very popular.In the wake of revelations that the Justice Department ...
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Editorial Its a day for L.A. to send a message by yes voting
In the final days and hours before an election, even a negative campaign can ring with inspiration. It's as if candidates and their supporters remember, not a moment too soon, that they're at the center of something special. This is particularly evident on the weekend before Tuesday balloting, when candidates visit places of worship and speak to audiences in soaring tones. They try to ...
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Live and let fry Column
words of one state assemblyman , "in the interest of protecting as many people as possible." This raises an important question: Is prohibiting 16-year-olds from using tanning beds, without regard to the wishes of their parents or prom dates, in the interest of as many people as possible?Not if you live in New Jersey. Based on the evidence I've seen on MTV, it is safer to lie in a ...
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Question of the Week How should schools punish defiant kids
There didn't use to be much debate about what to do with school kids who defied their teachers by refusing to do assigned work, talking back to teachers or disrupting class - disrespectful behavior that fell short of outright violence or law-breaking. It was simple. School administrators suspended those pupils and sent them home. But that tradition may be changing. Last week, the Los ...
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Losing arguments on the Internet
In Scottsdale, Ariz., there is a restaurant so far gone that even Gordon Ramsay’s shouting cannot save it. In fact, the owners of Amy’s Baking Company so terrified the man behind "Kitchen Nightmares" that he decided to quit working with them rather than endure them any longer. If you haven’t visited the nooks of the Internet where discussion of this has been bouncing ...
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Commencement season is when we celebrate college dreams turned into reality
commencement speech Sunday at Morehouse College in Atlantaunderscored the still-vital role of historically black colleges and universities, known as HBCUs. These institutions were created when African Americans and other students of color were shut out ofAmerican universities and colleges. They remain ancriticaloption for many students, educating adisproportionate share of low-income and ...
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The cost of BGE reliability
Baltimore Gas & Electric certainly isn't likely to win any popularity contests. It secured a rate increase from the Public Service Commission in February - its second in the last three years - and turned around and filed a request for another one on Friday. And at the same time, the utility is asking the PSC for what may be unprecedented in Maryland: a surcharge on customers' ...
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Is American democracy in trouble
We know American politics are dysfunctional. But after a week of scandal obsession during which the nation's capital and the media virtually ignored the problems most voters care about -- jobs, incomes, growth, opportunity, education -- it's worth asking if there is something especially flawed about our democracy. Our circumstances certainly have their own particular disabilities: a ...
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Saving the White House from faux scandals
Here’s the White House view of the current trilogy of so-called scandals: Republicans are trying to destroy President Barack Obama’s second term by magnifying bureaucratic miscues and distorting policy realities. This isn’t without some merit. On none of these issues - the deadly debacle at the U.S. diplomatic outpost in Libya, the Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of ...
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The death of private education
Atalanic. Even if dying is a bit hyperbolic, ';At the very least, it's headed for dramatic shrinkage, save for a handful of places and circumstances, to be replaced by a very different set of institutional, governance, financing and education-delivery mechanisms.'; Finn breaks the truth about private schools with statisctics. ';Private K-12 enrollments are shrinking — ...
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Top scandals and controversies of each US president
Three major scandals have surfaced over the past few weeks in Washington, escalating into a perfect storm that involves money, media and security. With the IRS targeting tea party tax-exempt groups, the Department of Justice seizing Associated Press records and the resurfacing of concerns about the handling of the attack on the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya, many are wondering what the ...
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Futures so bright we have to wear shades Column
everything is in tatters. And, in a way, it is. But serious as these problems are, they're all short-term things. So while at the moment a lot of our political leaders may be wearing sunglasses so as not to be recognized, there's a pretty good argument that, over the longer time, our future's so bright that we have to wear shades. That's the thesis of a new book, America 3.0: ...
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Obama pushes for shield law for journalists
President Obama may be engaging in political damage control in proposing that Congress resurrect legislation to protect the confidentiality of journalists’ sources. But his call for action on ...
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Mothers heal the world when they stand up
In the two decades I have researched at the intersection of gender and security, I have come to realize that the love of mothers for their children is what keeps the whole world ...
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Forced union dues violate free speech Column
Free speech means that individuals get to decide for themselves which causes to support. Protecting the free speech rights of teachers is not an attack on collective ...
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Goldberg Obama must take blame for IRS scandal
Of course the president deserves some of the blame.Yes, it’s extremely unlikely he ordered the IRS to discriminate against Tea Party, pro-life or Jewish groups opposed to his agenda (though why anyone should take his word for it is beyond me). And his outrage now - however convenient - is appreciated. But when people he views as his "enemies" complained about a politicized IRS, ...
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GOP cant help themselves
Mike Huckabee is already predicting that the president won't finish out his term.They aren't alone. It's gotten bad enough (and predictable enough) that some wiser heads within the GOP are already counseling their peers to cool off with the wild accusations. That includes former House Speaker Newt Gingrich who said last week that it would be a mistake to appear too eager to dig ...
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Letters More for malnutrition
Would it surprise any of you to learn that there are Latter-day Saint children throughout the world who suffer from malnutrition? An estimated 70,000 active LDS children are malnourished and it is likely that 10 percent of these children ...
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Proposals to ship coal by train through Northwest ports
A coal train moves through Seattle en route to Vancouver, B.C. Efforts to bring coal terminals to Washington and Oregon have enlisted some lobbyists and public-relations firms long connected with environmental causes. (Greg Gilbert / The Seattle Times) Roger McClellan expresses discomfort with the way activists are using anecdotal evidence of health impacts of coal dust to justify the coal-train ...
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Investigation of the deadly Benghazi attack
I enjoyed reading Kathleen Parker's column ["The Benghazi attack, redacted," Opinion, May 13]. Her opinion is cogent, thoughtful and generous. More generous than mine I'm afraid. I see what she calls a "mischaracterization" of what happened in Benghazi as nothing but a damned lie told by people who broke our trust and abused their public office. I believe that far ...
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Immigrant workers on U.S. farms
Regarding the article on possible racial implications in hiring of migrant workers, I would like to bring up the concept of first-generation immigrants filling an urgent need. ["Do U.S. farms favor immigrant workers?" Close-up, May 7.] Right now, the logistics are cheaper for a Chilean farmer to ship to the Northwest than it is for a farmer in California. Ditto Brazilian and Chilean ...
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The cost of a college education
There have been numerous articles on the burden of student debt on college graduates citing loan balances of $80,000, $100,000 or more ["Student debt hurts more than just grads," seattletimes.com, May 10]. I am a firm believer in availability of a college education for anyone who desires one, and in Washington there are many loan options. What I don't understand is the notion ...
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Punchlines Obama still in hot water
One comedian says that despite the scandal, at least two words will keep Obama from being ousted: President Biden. Listen to what else the comics had to say, then vote for your favorite at ...
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Historical schooner Bowdoin is a state asset
The Bowdoin recently undertook a short tour of Maine’s coastline, stopping in Portland and Bath so that the public could explore the ship and get a taste of the state’s maritime history, the historical schooner, built in 1921 and operated by the Maine Maritime Academy, is a historical jewel with a rich and fascinating history.
Nowadays ships are built to be big and imposing, the Oasis-class cruise ship Oasis of the Seas, the biggest cruise ship in the world at 47 meters wide, 360 meters long and capable of carrying 6000 passengers and the Mærsk E-class container ship Ebba Mærsk at 397 meters long and 47 meters wide, have set benchmarks in the size of these various kinds of ships. Read more
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