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03/12/2010

Russ Sikes: Dallas deserves to be known as 'Syn City'
What is Dallas, really? The fact that we ask perhaps reveals more than any answer, but I finally heard a moniker that struck a chord: "Dallas, the synthetic city." Synthetic. Instant ouch. Synthetic suggests man-made, artificial, contrived.

Jennie Sawyer: Enough really is enough
This is in an important concept, one that I want my son to understand now so when he is an adult it will simply be a part of who he is. I explained that a new house would be nice, but getting the money would mean Mommy would have to go back to work.

Mike Shepherd: Our enemies may not always hate us
R.V. Burgin was born in 1922 on a farm in Lancaster and served in the U.S. Marine Corps in World War II. The horrors of the Pacific that he experienced are only now being documented, in his book Islands of the Damned: A Marine at War in the Pacific.

Viewpoints: Apply by April 9 to be a teacher or student voice
To create a forum for informed debate complete with thoughtful observations and persuasive opinions, we need the help of people in the classroom. News pages can give us the facts, but teachers and students can tell us more.

Point Person: Our Q&A with Eric Johnson
Felon Terri Hodge's opponent in the Democratic primary, Eric Johnson, ignored naysayers who predicted his defeat and continued to build support in District 100. On March 2, he scored a decisive victory, winning almost 75 percent of the vote.

Nadia Arumugam: Ignore those food expiration dates
The fact is that expiration dates mean very little. Food starts to deteriorate from the moment it's harvested, butchered or processed, but the rate at which it spoils depends less on time than on the conditions under which it's stored.

Jacob Weisberg: Liberals for limited government
Since California passed Proposition 13 in 1978, distrust of government has been a primary driver of Republican advantage and a dagger pointed at Democrats, who have only really thrived when they took calls to limit government seriously.

Ellis, Scheck and Session: Trusting science in life and death
In Tim Cole’s case, solid science came too late. Gov. rick Perry was right to pardon him, but he would do well to learn from this case and make sure it doesn’t happen to anyone else. One such person might be Hank Skinner.

Charles Krauthammer: In praise of rotation of power
The rotation of power inevitably results in stops and starts and policy zigzags. Yet for all its inefficiency, it creates a near miraculous social stability by setting down layers of legitimacy every time the opposition adopts some of its predecessor's reforms

Eugene Robinson: 'Jihad Jane' and terrorist profiling
It took this case to illuminate what should have been obvious by now: Anyone who claims to be able to identify a potential terrorist by appearance or nationality is delusional. There's a reason why all of us have to take our shoes off at the airport.

Linda Chavez: In defense of Liz Cheney's 'values' quest
The attack against Liz Cheney rests on the principle that everyone accused of a crime has the right to legal representation. But leaving aside the gaping hole that Guantanamo holds enemy combatants, not common criminals, the analogy still doesn't work.

03/11/2010

Colleen McCain Nelson: How one of our drops fell off the list
Please help us, Pastor Howard Falls implored in an e-mail. The problem was butting up against their church property. "There is a burnt house next door," Howard wrote to me last year. "People on drugs are currently using the property as a smokehouse."

Anne Foster: It's easy to fire teachers, but where's the community?
Some teachers need to be fired. Some can't make it in the teaching profession, and others do specific things that they must be fired for. But to blame dismal results solely on teachers and fire all of them is naïve and may ultimately hurt public schools.

Balance of Opinion: Debt remedies
Enough with the punditry's garment-rending over the swollen national debt. Several columnists are now rolling up their sleeves and trying to offer solutions.

03/10/2010

Thomas Friedman: An Iraq worth fighting - and dying - for
If Iraq has any sort of decent outcome – and becomes a real Shiite-majority, multiethnic democracy right next door to the phony Iranian version – it will be a source of permanent pressure on the Iranian regime.

Carl Leubsdorf: Good news in Iraq doesn't wipe away the bad
Nearly seven years after President George W. Bush initially proclaimed success, the American mission in Iraq finally seems as close to being accomplished as it may ever be. But doubts will remain if it was worth the massive cost in lives and treasure.

Anchia and Johnson: A challenge to build on solar idea
We were thrilled by TXU’s announcement last week that it will team with SolarCity to provide an option for residents wanting to install rooftop solar panels, but the program will not be sustainable once the Oncor funding is exhausted. What's next?

Kathleen Parker: Health deals add up to mind-boggling debt
Not only are the sweetheart deals still part of the health care bill, but they're bigger and worser, as the bard gave us permission to say. And the health care "reform" bill is, consequently, more expensive by billions.

03/09/2010

Thomas Sowell: Economic stimulus or sedative?
Government money alone was never supposed to restore the economy. It was supposed to get the private sector spending, lending, investing and employing. The question: Is that what has actually happened?

Mark Davis: Two who want to stand in path of Democratic tank
Political analyst Charlie Cook's Partisan Voting Index is a measure of the nation's political landscape. In congressional districts, the index is derived by averaging voter totals from the previous two presidential elections and comparing them to the national presidential vote.

Eugene Robinson: The 'Al-Qaeda 7' smear campaign
Liz Cheney, the former vice president's ambitious daughter, has in her hand a list of nine Justice Department lawyers whose "values" she has the gall to question. She ought to spend the time examining her own principles, if she can find them.

03/08/2010

William McKenzie: The next horizons in education reform
For 25 years, a reform movement has driven education policies around the nation. We saw it take root in Texas with the 1985 no-pass, no-play law, and it has been alive in Washington with efforts like the bipartisan No Child Left Behind Act.

Jeff Jacoby: How separating school and state would pay off
If the goal is to have more American students get a successful education, it is far from clear that imposing a single set of benchmarks from above is the best strategy for getting there.

Jonah Goldberg: Big business is not bad, but simply vampiric
It turns out that's what most big businesses and fat cats do: back the winner. And that's probably the best explanation for why the Republicans are getting more money from Wall Street these days.

Clarence Page: Desiree Rogers and the fickleness of D.C.
As soon as Desiree Rogers announced her departure as President Barack Obama's White House social secretary, her image in major Washington media spun around from negative to positive fast enough to give an average mortal whiplash.

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