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Editorial: Before rushing through a health care bill, Senate should get answers to serious concerns about measure

If abortion is the only issue that gets a full public airing in the hurry-up Senate health care bill, as was the case in the House, it will be a grave disservice to good policy-making. - 11/22/2009

Letters

Letters

Cut salaries, not jobs; Cuts hurt communities; Give film aid to schools - 11/22/2009

Charles Krauthammer

New York gets to replay 9-11 propaganda

For late-19th-century anarchists, terrorism was the "propaganda of the deed." And the most successful propaganda-by-deed in history was 9/11 -- not just the most destructive, but the most spectacular and telegenic. - 11/22/2009

Clarence Page

Civilian courts fight terrorists, too

Terrorists by definition try to frighten you into changing the way you do things. In the run-up to his trial as alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, Khalid Sheik Mohammed's success as a terrorist is showing in us. A lot of good patriotic law-'n'-order Americans suddenly sound frightened by our own civilian judicial system. - 11/22/2009

Thomas Sowell

Doubt whether Uncle Sam can cut Medicare costs

What is so wrong with the current medical system in the United States that we are being urged to rush headlong into a new government system that we are not even supposed to understand, because this legislation is to be rushed through Congress before even the senators and representatives have a chance to read it? - 11/22/2009

George Will

Fighting health reform's coercion clause

Phoenix -- In 2006, long before there was an Obama administration determined to impose a command-and-control federal health care system, a young orthopedic surgeon walked into the Goldwater Institute here with an idea. The institute, America's most potent advocate of limited government, embraced Eric Novack's idea for protecting Arizonans from health care coercion. In 2008, Arizonans voted on Novack's proposed amendment to the state's constitution: - 11/22/2009

Kathleen Parker

Palin gets lucky star treatment

Columbia, S.C. -- In town to give a talk on civility, I was surrounded by women who wondered what I thought of Sarah Palin's Newsweek cover. - 11/22/2009

Editorial Quick Hits: Probe tax break for union

State legislators should ask questions about a $2 million refundable tax credit the Michigan Economic Development Corporation has given a corporate subsidiary of the Service Employees International Union, the bargaining representative for 12,000 state employees. - 11/21/2009

Editorial Quick Hits: Theirs

John Nichols, The Nation:GM's "recovery" is a paper improvement, not a real one. The company's improved position was purchased with an infusion of $50 billion in taxpayer dollars. Even now, as (CEO Fritz) Henderson and other GM officials talk of repaying some of the federal money they took, the New York Times notes the inconvenient truth that: "The money it is returning to the government is simply part of the loan that the company does not need." - 11/21/2009

Paul W. Smith

Dwell on the positive in a thankful review

Outta my mind on a Saturday moanin' heading into Thanksgiving week: - 11/21/2009

Commentary

Should Washington dictate breast exams?

As Democrats make their final push to seize control of health care, the government's recommendation to reduce breast cancer screening for women in their 40s personalizes Washington's new health care policy in a way few other subjects can. - 11/21/2009

Terror trial tests ideas about justice

Attorney General Eric Holder 's decision to bring Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four other accused terrorists to justice in a New York federal court is bringing no small number of pundits to a boil. - 11/21/2009

Michael Barone

Obama bows, but the world doesn't bow back

On his 10-day trip to Asia and in his 10th month in office, Barack Obama is beginning to encounter limits on his ambition to change the world. Even as he bowed to the king of Saudi Arabia in April and to the emperor of Japan last week, the world refuses to bow back. - 11/21/2009

Reader debate

Reform term limits in Michigan?

The situation in Lansing is certainly different than it was before term limits. But where is the evidence that it is any worse? Is the widespread ineptitude of today really worse than the corruption of the machine politics we endured before term limits? Do we really want to go back? - 11/21/2009