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    Inside the First Amendment: Graduation prayer, fighting over lost cause

    School officials in Lake City, Ark., have come up with a novel solution to the fight over prayer at graduation:

    • May 21, 2013
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    Guest editorial: President must show leadership

    It's bad enough that the Obama administration committed a wholesale violation of the First Amendment by prying into the records of phones used by almost 100 people at The Associated Press.

    • May 21, 2013
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    Guest editorial: Rogue banks remain too big to fail

    Perhaps the best way to view the world's largest banks is not as companies, but as nations unto themselves.

    • May 20, 2013
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    Kathleen Parker: Recent scandals make for strange bedfellows

    Breaking news: Conservative organizations suddenly have found common cause with one of their favorite objects of contempt — the benighted Mainstream Media.

    • May 20, 2013
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    Our say: Don't 'roll the dice' at courthouse

    Winnebago County Sheriff John Matz's words on the state of security at the courthouse speak for themselves.

    • May 17, 2013
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    Tom Herzing: America suddenly has an auto identity crisis

    When I was a kid, you could always tell when it was Saturday: the streets downtown were lined with the worn pickup trucks of farmers come to town to purchase the few necessities they couldn't grow or preserve: Fels Naptha, tooth powder, Grainbelt beer.

    • May 17, 2013
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    Ruth Marcus: GOP bets on Obama trifecta with no payout

    Folks, deep breath time. This is not the end of the Obama presidency. It's a bad stretch with an unfortunate confluence of unfortunate events.

    • May 17, 2013
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    David Hayford: Meaning of Memorial Day should be sacred

    Perhaps the interminable winter has increased my peevishness. Or maybe the years have caused a rise in my curmudgeon rating. But there are two things relating to our treatment of the military that have bothered me for a number of years.

    • May 16, 2013
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    Guest editorial: Lower limit on alcohol is sensible

    The U.S. has been making progress in the battle against drunken driving, trimming the number of related deaths to about 10,000 a year, less than half the toll from when Ronald Reagan was president.

    • May 16, 2013
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    Bethany Lerch: Making a case for U.S. intervention in Syria

    The New York Times news alert read that the White House has 'varying degrees of confidence' that the Syrian regime under Bashar al-Assad 'used chemical weapons.' The next day, The Guardian quoted Prime Minister David Cameron admitting,

    • May 15, 2013
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    Guest editorial: Tea Party, IRS case troubling scandal

    A thorough investigation of the Internal Revenue Service is needed to find the depth and breadth of the agency's targeting of tea party members and other conservative groups for extra scrutiny.

    • May 15, 2013
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    Kevin McGee: Practice tolerance with foreign speakers

    There's an old saying, that you should never criticize a man until you've walked a mile in his shoes. Well I've walked that mile, several miles, and my feet are really hurting.

    • May 14, 2013
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    Guest editorial: Helmet law would save lives, dollars

    You can get a taste for the level of subtlety the motorcycle lobbying group ABATE brings to the debate when you learn that the name is an acronym for 'A Brotherhood Against Totalitarian Enactments.'

    • May 14, 2013
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    Guest column: Lessons from Cleveland kidnappings

    First lady Michelle Obama spoke for many Americans when she referred to the Cleveland kidnapping case as '

    • May 14, 2013
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    Bill Bollom: Backyard is a perfect getaway every spring

    It's been a long winter. I put my ragtop into storage on Nov. 16, and couldn't get it out until April 16, but now it's spring. Finally, I got my backyard back.

    • May 13, 2013
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    Guest editorial: Put blame on abuser not victim

    Two recent homicides in Northeastern Wisconsin illustrate the danger that lurks in abusive relationships.

    • May 13, 2013
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    Mike Nichols: Minnesota, Wisconsin are alike, yet different

    Ken Bierl lives in an old house that sits about 100 yards off the steep bluffs of the St. Croix just north of North Hudson.

    • May 13, 2013
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    Guest editorial: Gun safety ads could save kids

    Last week's awful news from rural Kentucky — that a 5-year-old boy accidentally shot and killed his 2-year-old sister with a child-sized .22 rifle — begs for a response, even more so because such tragedies are shockingly common.

    • May 13, 2013

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