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Sunday, March 14, 2010

Hey, Obama, leave them schools alone

By Jay Ambrose

Hand it to the states. All but two of them saw that their K-12 math and English standards could maybe do with some possible...

9 Comments

Union address in a sorry state

By George F. Will

WASHINGTON - The increasingly puerile spectacle of presidential State of the Union addresses is indicative of the state of...

3 Comments

Too many black holes in space plan

By Dale McFeatters

Another of President Obama’s initiatives may be in trouble. Legislators from states with a heavy NASA presence are...

4 Comments

A perfect circle of party power

By Charles Krauthammer

WASHINGTON - As the Afghanistan War intensifies - Marja, soon Kandahar, and the steady arrival of 30,000 new American troops - it has come to be seen as Obama’s...

Saturday, March 13, 2010

Luster in eye of beholder

By Jennifer Clark Estes / As You Were Saying . . .

Maybe a lost diamond is just a lost diamond, bad luck. Or maybe I needed a reminder of why I wore it. That I discovered the loss on a Sunday morning can’t...

Clothe the naked pols!

By John Kass

A naked, wet and angry Rahm Emanuel? That’s the last image Americans need in our minds right now. But it’s been seared onto our brains -...

Rap on insurers ignores facts

By Dan K. Thomasson

WASHINGTON - The nation’s insurers may never be the same by the time Barack Obama is through tarring them as the bad...

3 Comments

Friday, March 12, 2010

Democracy may doom Obama’s health agenda

By Michael Barone

There’s a lively debate about whether Democrats would be better off passing or not passing a health care bill. ...

12 Comments

War or peace, Guard up

ROAD TO KABUL: Spc. James Brown serves as gunner during Guard maneuvers at Fort Devens.

By Rachelle Cohen

FORT DEVENS - This is how and where it begins. It begins on a sunny March day...

5 Comments

Jihad Jane wired for terrorism, stupidity

By Dale McFeatters

Colleen LaRose, aka “Jihad Jane,” was apparently discreet enough to keep secret from her live-in boyfriend her...

3 Comments

Thursday, March 11, 2010

Naked bid for vote?

By Michael Graham

What to make of the Massa mess? Naked congressmen, shower stall encounters, “tickle parties,” wraslin’...

39 Comments

Dose of disdain from Dr. Obama

By George F. Will

WASHINGTON - There are legislative miles to go before the government will be emancipated from its health care myopia, but...

20 Comments

State must teach a hard lesson to bullies

By Wayne Woodlief

The state Senate should - no, make that must - pass a bill today that gives our schools new, clear and compelling powers...

7 Comments

Sharing the pain

By Boston Herald Editorial Staff

When you remove the election-year politics from the equation, Gov. Deval Patrick’s decision to spare cities and towns...

3 Comments

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

TSA nominee merits Senate confirmation

By Dale McFeatters

President Barack Obama has taken his sweet time about finding someone to head the Transportation Security Administration...

2 Comments

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