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Best jobs to have and the real No. 1
Americans have always embraced the concept of work. Unlike many in other parts of the world who often take six or eight weeks of vacation a year and aren't slaves to the idea of the 40-hour work week, we in the good old USA have, by and large, really...
Obama win on foreign policy
It made no sense when Barack Obama left the country on his nine-day overseas tour for some of my fellow columnists to describe it as a high-risk venture. Foreign leaders, who can read the polls as well as anyone, would go out of their way not to embarrass...
The ‘bankruptcy exploiters’
In one of those front-page editorials disguised as "news" stories, The New York Times blames "the lucrative lending practices" of banks and other financial institutions for helping create the current financial crisis of millions of borrowers and of the...
The finest story you missed this week
The headline says it all: "Anarchists' Gathering Surprisingly Organized." From there, the story just gets better, a story tragically unnoted in the national press. According to a smallish item in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on Monday, apparently,...
Book tells of ‘Slavery by another name’
This is how John Davis became a slave: He was walking one evening from the train depot in Goodwater, Ala., when a white man appeared in the road. "N---," he demanded, "have you got any money?" The white man, Robert Franklin, was a constable. He claimed...
Is Jindal the one GOP waits for?
Drum roll. Suspense. Who will it be? In this corner, we have Stormin' Mormon Mitt Romney. In the other, we have Brain-Buster Bobby Jindal. Amid speculation that John McCain will announce his vice presidential pick soon, political nail-biters have begun...
Cindy McCain and the smell of death in Rwanda
KIGALI, Rwanda - Cindy McCain's first visit to this country in 1994 was during the high season of roadblocks and machetes and shallow graves. Following a call for help from Doctors Without Borders, McCain assembled a medical team with the intention of...
A wrestling match with time management
If the headlines read, "Time Management Tools and Poison Ivy Become Extinct" I'd be one happy camper. Anyone who was in the work force in the early '90s knows what I am talking about. Before the Blackberry and Palm Pilot entered the marketplace, time...
Bush’s ‘horizon’ on Iraq exit
It's not a "timetable" for extricating U.S troops from Iraq that George W. Bush is suddenly talking about, and heaven help anyone who accuses him of proposing a "timeline." No, the Decider says he is now amenable to a "time horizon," which apparently...
Peace of mind from inside a bathroom stall
Don't tell anyone, but I started writing this column from my bathroom. I spend a lot of time in the restroom these days, and it's probably not why you think. Lest anyone worry about my colon's health, it's just fine. The waterworks are just fine too....
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