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Libya unrest brings to mind Baghdad's fall
By Matt Schofield | The Kansas City Star
Nothing was obvious right away. The day didn’t seem any deadlier than those before it.
But it was. And that scares me about what’s going to happen in Libya. » read more
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Commentary: In California, GOP writes off Latino voters
By Dan Morain | The Sacramento Bee
Here's a portrait of two bills that are worlds apart, and two very different veterans of the political wars who have come to gain a common understanding.
A week ago, on Cesar Chavez Day, a hundred farm workers marched down a Capitol hallway chanting, "Sí, se puede," and celebrating the California Senate's vote approving legislation intended to revive the United Farm Workers union. On Monday, Assemblyman Tim Donnelly, a first-term Republican, announced that he was pushing Arizona-style legislation to make illegal immigration a crime under California law. » read more- |
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In this digital age, speech has been globalized just as surely as commerce. That's one of the lessons to be taken from the troubling sequence of events in which a tiny Florida church's distasteful publicity stunt of burning a Quran triggered five days of protest and mob violence across Afghanistan. Through Tuesday, more than 20 people had been killed, and the hand of our Taliban antagonists has been strengthened. » read more
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Rep. Paul D. Ryan, R-Wis., chairman of the House Budget Committee, won praise from his fellow Republicans this week for proposing a federal budget that would reduce the deficit by slashing spending in almost every domestic program. Some of the praise was exaggerated; Ryan's plan has holes in it, just like President Obama's budget. » read more
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Joe Galloway
McClatchy's veteran war correspondent, Joseph L. Galloway, retired in January 2010 after half a century in the newspaper business. Read his farewell column, and an archive of his take-no-prisoners commentary.
Here's one of his most-requested columns, "Fridays at the Pentagon."
