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1 hr ago | News Journal

PERSPECTIVE: Registry couldn't stop Ohio deaths

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- One of Ohio's foremost champions of tougher sexual predator laws conceded a certain futility to such efforts as body after body was removed last week from the Cleveland home of Anthony Sowell.

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Related Topix: US Politics, Representative Steve Austria, US News, Republican, US House of Representatives, Ohio, Columbus Metro, Columbus, OH, Prison

6 hrs ago | Town Hall

Jihadists in the Military

Townhall.coma s weekly inside scoop on whata s happening behind the scenes in the world of politics.

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Related Topix: US News, Patriot Act, US Politics, Michael McCaul, Republican, US House of Representatives

10 hrs ago | EagleTribune.com, North Andover, MA

Editorial: Army shooter's views should have prompted action

As more is learned regarding the tragic shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, there are serious questions concerning how and why Maj.

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Related Topix: Fort Hood, TX, US Army, US Military, Terrorism

Mon Nov 09, 2009

St. Augustine Record

Letter: Obama's attack on business was wrong

Editor: I would like to take this time to "thank" the Democrats in Washington D.C. Having lost one of the 190,000 jobs this past month, I feel I owe it to thank the people responsible.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, Barack Obama

Deseret Morning News

Top editor leaves China's boldest news magazine

The founder and editor-in-chief of a Chinese magazine known for pushing boundaries with the country's censors and chasing stories that could embarrass the government resigned Monday amid friction with her publisher, colleagues and the magazine said.

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Related Topix: Epidemic, Natural Disasters

Burlington Free Press

Cal Thomas: Communism's enablers and excusers

On Nov. 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall was pulled down to the consternation of leftists, who still had faith socialism could work with the right leaders, and to the delight of conservatives, who believed that socialism and communism guaranteed mutually-shared poverty.

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The Oregonian

A father, a daughter, a clash of cultures

We don't know why Faleh Hassan Almaleki came to this country in the mid-'90s, and it's unlikely he'll be able to tell us anytime soon.

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Related Topix: Maricopa County, AZ, Glendale, AZ, Social Software

RecordNET

Democrats badly misread meaning of 2008 election

Sure, Election Day 2009 will scare moderate Democrats and make passage of Obamacare more difficult.

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Related Topix: US News, US Politics, 2008 Presidential Election, Barack Obama

Austin American Statesman

Bay: America always kept hope alive

On Nov. 9, 1989, large crowds of German citizens from East and West Berlin approached the Berlin Wall.

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Related Topix: World News, Germany, Prison, NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)

Sun Nov 08, 2009

The Telegraph

act before it's late

There must be a better way to rig an election. First, the Western powers occupying Afghanistan let President Hamid Karzai stay in the job for months after his term actually expired, on the grounds that an election in the late summer would be easier to arrange.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, World News, Asia, Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, Barack Obama

Newark Advocate

Here's why people didn't like the traffic cameras

Here's my answer to the question, "Why didn't the good folks of Heath like the traffic cameras?" Three responses: Americans will fight anything that resembles "Big Brother is watching." We don't appreciate being treated as a statistic or in any other way that is cold and impersonal.

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Battle Creek Enquirer

Your Opinion: Honor to serve as city commissioner

Thank you to the residents of Ward 3 for allowing me to serve as your city commissioner for the previous two years.

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Related Topix: Battle Creek, MI

Burlington Free Press

Parker column: Cheering a newsroom brawl

The so-called "newsroom brawl" between an editor and a writer at The Washington Post recently has been a fine distraction for the health-care-weary. The two men apparently came to blows over, of all things, words.

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Related Topix: Washington

Boston Herald

Climate of accord turns chilly

Intelligent people agree that, absent immediate radical action regarding global warming, the human race is sunk.

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Related Topix: Global Warming, 9, Life, Food, Local Food

Sat Nov 07, 2009

The Detroit News

Tigers' fall league players drawing notice

A month in Arizona can do wonders for a hot prospect's stock as a future big leaguer.

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Related Topix: Sports, Detroit Tigers, Major League Baseball, Baseball Players, Casper Wells, Religion

Calgary Sun

Flue fears: Take a pill

Canadians are a stoic bunch, right? It's because of our harsh weather and pioneer roots.

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Denver Post

Garrison Keillor: Politics and life's variety pack

It costs $722 to fly from St. Paul/Minneapolis to Bismarck, N.D., and you can fly from St.

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Related Topix: Bismarck Metro, Bismarck, ND, Bernie Madoff

The Star Press Muncie News

I met a man

I was in a local store when I noticed a man wearing a U.S. Navy ship ballcap. I stopped him, for I had spent seven years of my career aboard the ship he was advertising.

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Times-Picayune

Editorial: Incomprehensible tragedy

There are countless questions yet to be answered about the murderous rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, that left 13 people dead and 28 people wounded Thursday.

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Related Topix: Fort Hood, TX, US Army, US Military, Fort Hood

Fri Nov 06, 2009

Detnews.com - Lions-NFL

Mike O'Hara: Lions are winners in Peterson trade, if not the game

The Lions go to Seattle this weekend with one victory assured. That doesn't mean they'll beat the Seahawks at Qwest Field.

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Related Topix: Sports, Detroit Lions, NFL Football, Julian Peterson, NFL Players, Seattle Seahawks

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