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Leftist race issues don’t get media coverage

A California Democrat’s ties to a radical group don’t seem to generate any attention. The mainstream press has been doing a miserable job covering Cruz Bustamante’s ties to the creepy Chicano secessionist group MEChA. This may not be the biggest story of the California recall election, but voters surely have a right to expect some […]

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New Hampshire feeling election rush

CONTOOCOOK, N.H. – I engaged in fund-raising not long after I passed this intriguingly named town as I headed south on Interstate 89 recently, doing my best to avoid presidential candidates.I was in the parking lot of a combination rest stop and New Hampshire state liquor store south of Concord when I spotted a penny […]

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My daughter made the ceremony ‘awww’ full

Flower girls have a very important job at a wedding. I’m not saying it’s easy to be the father of the bride. I’m just saying it can’t be any more stressful than being the father of the flower girl.I found this out when my daughter, Sophie, age 3, was asked to be a co-flower-girl with […]

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FOI blunders, abuses justify Patriot Act fears

Section 215 of the Patriot Act could conceivably be used as a basis to seize a reporter’s notes. Ask a journalist about the Patriot Act, and the response may strike you as overly suspicious or even paranoid. But those who have submitted a Freedom of Information Act request to a federal agency know better.Consider FOIA […]

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NASA should offer public full disclosure

The report on the Columbia disaster has been released, but it didn’t disclose everything. The panel that investigated the Columbia shuttle disaster, in which seven astronauts were killed Feb. 1, has released its accident report. Retired Adm. Harold Gehman, chairman of the investigation board, handed it over Aug. 26.What Gehman issued, however, is the abridged […]

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U.S. faces new challenge to Iraqi peace

Bombing that killed a key Iraqi Shiite cleric was meant to perpetuate chaos, stoke civil war. The murder of a leading Iraqi cleric by a horrific car bomb Aug. 29 was more than a tragic blow to Iraqis.It was a deadly challenge to the whole Iraq policy of the United States.There was a ghoulish strategy […]

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The cosmic lights are flickering

Scientists report that the whole universe is slowly fading into darkness. At first I thought it was just my aging eyes. Things haven’t appeared as bright in the world. Maybe you’ve noticed it, too. It’s as if a cosmic rheostat has been nudged down ever so slightly, making things seem dimmer.(When I say “things seem […]

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The 1967 Portland School Committee recall

Few spoons stir the local political pot as vigorously as selection of a high school principal, but when for the first time in 25 years a vacancy occurred in the leadership of Deering High, one of Maine’s largest and most prestigious, the pot boiled over for Portland’s School Committee. At issue was the committee’s decision […]