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Allow prayer at government meetings tellusatoday
On Monday, the Supreme Court announced it would take up a case about whether prayer should be allowed at government meetings. We asked our readers how they would rule. Comments are from Twitter and Facebook:Should prayer be allowed at government meetings? Absolutely! Politicians need all the help they can get. -- @VILLARREAL_14Pray at home or church. Not everyone is a Bible-thumping Christian. ...
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Boy Scouts admit gay members and move on Column
James Oliver, left, hugs his brother and fellow Eagle Scout, Will Oliver, who is gay. In February, Will and other supporters carried boxes filled with a petition to end the ban on gay Scouts and leaders to the Boy Scouts of America headquarters in ...
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Eliminate IRS discretion by returning to social-welfare groups original purpose Editorial
It's clear by this point that the Internal Revenue Service should not be in the business of figuring out what constitutes political activity and just how much of it is engaged in by any particular group claiming tax-exempt status. The easy solution to the scandal embroiling Washington is to revoke the 1959 IRS regulation that says social-welfare groups can engage in political activity, so ...
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More Latino students head to college Editorial
Seven in 10 Latino high school graduates entered college last year, the first time the rate has ever been higher than that of whites and African-Americans. That, in its way, is the good news. It's not a matter of pitting one American ethnic group against the others; it's more that such success among a group that is made up primarily of immigrants, so that most of these new college ...
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Putting Oklahoma tornado in perspective Column
Is climate change to blame? No one knows, but the numbers of events are increasing. During the live coverage of the horrific events in Moore, Okla., on Monday night, meteorologist Mike Morgan on Oklahoma City TV station, KFOR, declared that this ...
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Comprehensive immigration reform or bust
Immigration advocates gather outside the Senate Judiciary Committee in the Senate Hart Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, April 22, 2013, as they wait to attend the committee's hearing on comprehensive immigration reform ...
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Search for extraterrestrial life goes on even without Kepler.
CNN that the much beloved telescope, which ';has found more than 2,700 possible planets orbiting stars other than our Sun, of which more than 100 have been confirmed,'; may be nearing the end of its life now that ';the second of four of the Kepler spacecraft's reaction wheels, which aim the vessel's instruments, appears to have failed. It remains to be seen whether full ...
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No NBA for Seattle
Sacramento, Calif., Mayor Kevin Johnson, at front center, a former NBA basketball player, walks out during a break from an NBA Board of Governors meeting in Dallas on Wednesday. The board voted 22-8 against a proposed relocation of the Sacramento Kings to Seattle. (Tony Gutierrez / The Associated Press) "This is going to be short for me. I have a game to in Oklahoma City," David Stern ...
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Liberalism not at fault for recent scandals Column
If in any of these situations even one person of influence had adhered to the basic tenets of liberalism, all of these scandals could have been ...
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IRS scandal symptom of intrusive government Column
Cure is to reduce the size, cost and intrusiveness of the federal government. Our Founding Fathers were fearful of a powerful federal government because it was a threat to liberty. The recent Internal Revenue Service scandal is the foreseeable and inevitable consequence of a too powerful federal government, and the validation of the mission of the Tea Party movement that stands firmly for a ...
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Punchlines Commencement speeches and advice for grads
Hear what advice some late-night comedians offered to the Class of 2013 (and commencement speech complaints). After that, vote for your favorite joke at ...
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City envy in the county schools
Baltimore County 's are the second-oldest. The problems posed by the aging facilities in the two jurisdictions are different - the city has an overabundance of underused buildings, while the county has for years been dealing with overcrowding in one region or another - but the first step toward a solution, county schools officials hope, may be the same: developing a comprehensive ...
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Obama scandals could hurt Republicans
Republican politicians and activists can barely contain their glee at the simultaneous eruption of three major controversies about the Obama administration. Conservatives are at a low boil over the administration’s dissembling about its actions after the attacks on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya. The public is concerned about the targeting of conservative groups by the ...
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Minnesota Legislature largely restrained unions
"They own the place," GOP state Rep. Pat Garofalo sarcastically said of labor unions Monday, as pro-union forces loudly celebrated the House's 68-66 vote to authorize state-paid child care providers and personal care attendants to organize a union. The contentious unionization issue was indeed a big-deal, long-sought victory for the state's union movement. It's seen as ...
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Russias spy tale about American sounds fishy
expulsion as a spy of a U.S. Embassy employee in Moscow last week. The Russian Federal Security Service, known as the FSB, said that Ryan C. Fogle was caught red-handed trying to recruit one of its officers, carrying cash, a letter, a compass, a map, sunglasses and two wigs. We don’t know what Fogle was doing, but the story sounds fishy. Back in the 1970s, perhaps, a CIA case officer ...
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The Obama administrations war on whistle-blowers
That pattern was in my head as I watched ';We Steal Secrets,'; the WikiLeaks documentary at the Seattle International Film Festival. Army Pfc. Bradley Manning is the admitted source of the biggest leak of official secrets in history, and pleaded guilty to 10 of the 22 charges against him. He faces 20 years in prison. He knew what he was doing, but like most whistle-blowers, believed ...
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IRS questions political groups
The IRS scandal has caused consternation on Capitol Hill. U.S. Senate Minority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell, center, talks about the issue Thursday as Rep. Michele Bachmann, left, Sen. Rand Paul, right, and others look on. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus has scheduled a hearing for next week. (Alex Wong / Getty Images) The article about the part of the tax code allowing tax-exempt ...
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Where is God when evil strikes Column
In fact, God intervenes and comforts us in our darkest times. God is all good. God is all-powerful. Evil and tragedy happen. Pick two, as the saying goes, but all three of those postulations can't possibly be true.As seems to happen all too often in a troubled world, religious people are left to struggle with these riddles of life and belief following the tornado that devastated Moore, ...
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More students deserve to graduate Column
The significance of thousands of students receiving their diplomas cannot be overstated. Yet the fact remains that many more students in this country need that same ...
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Minnesota Legislature yields mixed results
No trumpets blared or crowds cheered Monday night as the 2013 Legislature’s regular session drew to a close. Weary legislators are expected to troop home today to confront mixed responses to the year’s labors. We share that ambivalence, and concede that it may spring from expectations that were too high. This year’s return to all-DFL control at the Capitol after 22 years of ...
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Catholic nuns put faith before church hierarchy
Recently, opponents of deportations held a rally to commemorate the five-year anniversary of what they call an unjust immigration sweep of 389 people in a kosher meat-packing plant in Postville, Iowa. Last July, three people breached security and entered a nuclear facility in Oak Ridge, Tenn., housing highly enriched uranium, where they spilled blood at the site before being arrested. Last ...
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The Starfleet Divide The Star Trek Universe Revisits One Of Its Great Debates
Abrams' hyperactive movie talked fast and walked fast -- when it wasn't at a dead run. Indeed, in its breakneck pace and its camera-flare and whip-pan-loving ...
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At L.A.s UnCabaret 25 Years Of Letting It All Hang Out
Beth Lapides (with music director-producer Mitch Kaplan) is the founder and ringmaster at UnCabaret, a Los Angeles comedy institution that's marking its 25th anniversary this ...
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Sandwich Monday The Saltwich
panel of experts convened by the Institute of Medicine says limiting salt below a certain amount may not really do us any good. Around here, we take this to mean: Eat as much salt as you can or you'll die. So, we've created The Saltwich, made with the saltiest foods we could find. Salami, bacon, pickles and salt-and-vinegar potato chips, on salty pretzel bread. Salt to ...
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The Little Metronome That Wouldnt
keep doing that. Metronomes not in sync with the table have their motions dampened, then countered, until they do it "the table's way." Eventually all the metronomes come into alignment. That's what you saw in our small, chamber music version. Now we're going symphonic. This time, we'll have a much bigger table with 32 brightly colored metronomes -- a Mormon ...
Maine State Feaure
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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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