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Published
April 30, 2013

WORST WEEK IN WASHINGTON: FBI went 0-2 last week

Here’s a quick summary of the FBI’s week: It came out that the agency probably let a bad guy go and charged a good guy with a crime.
Published
April 30, 2013

MAINE COMPASS: Cyberbullying causes pain, suffering, so it should be a crime

Most — if not all — of us have had an experience with bullying. Bullies torment and discriminate against anybody based on age, race, religion, disability, sexual orientation, gender, family status, national origin and any other personal characteristic that identifies a person as a unique and special human being.
Published
April 29, 2013

COMMENTARY: Time to think realistically about prospect of nuclear war

Start thinking the unthinkable. We as a nation have to start talking about the prospects for nuclear war.
Published
April 28, 2013

COMMENTARY: American football industry in its death throes

With all that college beef on parade last week, the NFL draft is a wonder of sports marketing, a televised pageant for the multibillion-dollar American football industry.
Published
April 28, 2013

COMMENTARY: How to get the best summer job

School is out in only a few weeks, so the time is now for those considering a summer job.

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Published
April 28, 2013

DANA MILBANK: Washington at its best — and worst

This last weekend of April displayed the very best and the very worst of Washington. The worst is the part most of the country sees most of the time in the capital: the triumph of money and power.
Published
April 28, 2013

MAINE COMPASS: Genetically modified organisms should be labeled as such

I wonder why, in a time when we search for information and build knowledge in so many aspects of our complicated lives, there is so much resistance to seeking, or providing, basic information about the nature of the food we eat?
Published
April 28, 2013

CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: Bush’s best legacy:creation of anti-terror infrastructure

Clare Boothe Luce liked to say that "a great man is one sentence." Presidents, in particular. The most common "one sentence" for George W. Bush (whose legacy is being reassessed as his presidential library opens) is: "He kept us safe."
Published
April 27, 2013

M.D. HARMON: Many reasons attendance at gun shows is booming

A gun show was held in the area recently, and it was packed.
Published
April 26, 2013

US division continues to deepen

In the week since modest gun control died in the Senate, those of us who don't think guns make the country safer have been inclined to blame a few cowardly senators whose votes could have shifted the outcome.