Opinion Columns
Fifty Years Ago Today, May 18, 1963
President Kennedy flies to racially troubled Alabama today for two speeches and perhaps a crucial meeting with defiant segregationist Gov. George Wallace.
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Lane Filler: Bigger issue for IRS, taxpayers
You are a financial supporter of the Westboro Baptist Church. You know, that posse of full-blown whackdoodles from Kansas that descends on our nation's most tragic moments, particularly military funerals, waving signs that say "Thank God for dead soldiers."
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Miami Herald: Administration in disarray
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.
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Charlie Harper: Education vs. political ignorance
Just as any proposal for immigration reform is immediately labeled "amnesty," any talk of setting a national standard so that K-12 education can be portable as students move around the country or attend colleges out of state is now labeled a "federal takeover of education."
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Kathleen Parker: Are you (fill in the blank) enough?
Enough with this "enough" business.
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Albany Herald: Hot cars are deadly places for children
As the weather gets hotter, so do concerns about unintended illnesses and deaths that can come from being careless with autos.
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KC Star: Let's speed up the benefits to veterans
Disabled veterans across America are facing shameful delays in accessing earned benefits.
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Karen Spears Zacharias: Divine Mother's Day musings
I was talking with a friend from New Orleans the other day. Before she became a widow she was a pastor's wife. We were chatting about the things women our age talk about -- men and babies (and no, that's not always a redundant pairing) and the gifts we ought to get (read: deserve) for Mother's Day...
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CIA veteran: Vietnam syndrome - again
Thirty-eight years ago last week, I was among the last CIA officers to be choppered off the U.S. Embassy roof in Saigon as the North Vietnamese took the country.
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Charlie Harper: Handel's pro-life candidacy
As Georgia media outlets were breaking the news that Jack Kingston was moving his "unofficial" candidacy for the U.S. Senate into a formal and official campaign last week, Karen Handel was sending out an email reminding Georgia voters that she too is officially an unofficial candidate.
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Albany Herald: Presidential confusion on Syria stance
A new poll conducted by Reuters/Ipros shows that an overwhelming majority of Americans do not want to see this country's military involved in the Syrian civil war that has raged since 2011.


