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Published
February 26, 2012

DANA MILBANK: Republicans keep giving foes opportunities to put on a show

WASHINGTON -- If the gender gap becomes a chasm that swallows Republicans this fall, it will be no fluke. It will, however, have something to do with Sandra Fluke.
Published
February 25, 2012

M.D. HARMON: ‘Choose Life’ license plate needs 2,000 advance registrations

This week's column contains a couple of tips for people concerned that Americans' efforts to protect children fall a little short when we deliberately kill hundreds of thousands of them every year.
Published
February 24, 2012

JOSEPH REISERT: Is big money given to Super PACs a threat to integrity of elections?

No recent decision of the Supreme Court has been more reviled than the 2010 Citizens United decision, which held that the First Amendment prohibits the government from barring corporations and unions from spending money on political communications.
Published
February 23, 2012

MAINE COMPASS: Sussman’s link to papers raises questions of news integrity

If the New York Yankees subsidized the salaries of umpires calling games against the Red Sox, people would be screaming from Eastport to Block Island.
Published
February 22, 2012

GEORGE SMITH: University system sails into future with Maine native at the helm

It's about time. A Maine native and university alumnus has been selected to serve as the university system's next chancellor.

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Published
February 21, 2012

MAINE COMPASS: People with mental illnesses risk losing parity they have attained

Some victories fought on behalf of patients with mental illnesses take years to win.
Published
February 20, 2012

KATHLEEN PARKER: Spreading false information greater danger than lack of civility

Can civility be saved? This has become the question du jour among scholars, journalists and others who fret about such things at dozens of programs popping up around the country. As a nation, we seem to want to be a more civil society, which is laudable if, quite possibly, unlikely.
Published
February 19, 2012

CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: By what authority does Obama tell insurers to give free birth control?

Give him points for cleverness. President Barack Obama's birth control "accommodation" was as politically successful as it was morally meaningless.
Published
February 19, 2012

KAY RAND: Honor, dignity ascribed to early presidents, notwithstanding flaws

Monday is Presidents Day, the day when most Americans celebrate the birthdays of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln and honor the office of the presidency of the United States.
Published
February 19, 2012

DANA MILBANK:Conscientious objections to birth-control rule?

You might think that Sen. David Vitter would observe a lifetime moratorium on public moralizing after his phone number was found in the little black book of a prostitution ring's madam.