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Child abuse casts a long shadow
It's been said child abuse casts a shadow the length of a lifetime. Of course, the darkest part of that shadow is the area where justice was never served; the area where the abuser evaded authorities through the silence of a child brought on by fear, or the silence of a family or communit…
Nov 20, 2009 | 8:10 am | (0) Comments
A rogue's place in the women's movement
BOSTON - You have to hand it to Sarah Palin. I don't mean you have to hand her the 2012 nomination. Nor do you have to hand her the $24.64 I overpaid for "Going Rogue."
Nov 20, 2009 | 2:45 am | (0) Comments
Guarantee taxpayers a real return
Money makes the world go round, so it's no wonder "return on investment" is a new catchphrase leading efforts for an expansion in early childhood education and other programs.
Nov 20, 2009 | 1:45 am | (0) Comments
Trying terrorists in U.S. is risky business
The Obama administration has chosen the wrong New York venue to try five co-conspirators in the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States. Instead of a Manhattan courtroom less than a mile from the site of where the World Trade Center stood, the government should have chosen t…
Nov 19, 2009 | 2:15 am | (7) Comments
Bowing to world opinion
In the string of amazing decisions made during the first year of the Obama administration, nothing seems more like sheer insanity than the decision to try foreign terrorists, who have committed acts of war against the United States, in federal court, as if they were American citizens accu…
Nov 18, 2009 | 3:05 pm | (4) Comments
Mikhail Gorbachev's Sermon on the Mount
"Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God." That biblical quotation certainly applies to Mikhail Gorbachev, a man not honored enough for the example he set and whose past practices and recent cautions about Afghanistan should be heeded by Barack Obama.
Nov 17, 2009 | 2:30 am | (3) Comments
David Rooks: We are what we speak
On Sunday morning in Rapid City, in neighborhoods large and small, souls drawn by the gravity of prayer gather in various churches. So, too, those whose meditations prefer a walk beside Canyon Lake or down the path beside Rapid Creek. Against the muck and dreck of the week, they seek a cl…
Nov 17, 2009 | 2:00 am | (3) Comments
Medicalizing mass murder
WASHINGTON - What a surprise - that someone who shouts "Allahu Akbar" (the "God is great" jihadist battle cry) as he is shooting up a room of American soldiers might have Islamist motives. It certainly was a surprise to the mainstream media, which spent the weekend after the Fort Hood mas…
Nov 16, 2009 | 2:30 am | (9) Comments
Energy policy stuck on stupid
It was only a brief in the Journal a couple of weeks ago, but it caught my attention.
Nov 16, 2009 | 2:00 am | (10) Comments
Bill is too costly
WASHINGTON - While the House Democrats spent the week congratulating themselves for squeezing out the midnight passage of their version of health care reform, neutral observers were reminding them: You've left the job half done.
Nov 15, 2009 | 1:45 pm | (0) Comments
A picture can lie
NEW YORK - The 20th century was 100 years of amplitude. It overflowed with barbarous fighting faiths, wars enveloping continents, and graphic journalism assaulting global audiences with scenes of shocking immediacy. The Spanish Civil War, although small in terms of the number of combatant…
Nov 15, 2009 | 2:15 am | (0) Comments
A different kind of candidate?
B. Thomas Marking has constructed a pretty simple campaign platform. It's based on four words: What do you want?
Nov 15, 2009 | 2:15 am | (0) Comments
Terrorism or tragedy?
It's somewhat disconcerting, but the Obama administration continues to dance around the terrorism question. While a new Rasmussen poll shows 60 percent of Americans want the Fort Hood massacre investigated as a terrorist act, the president sees the mass murder as a "tragedy" and a violent…
Nov 15, 2009 | 1:45 am | (3) Comments
Health care reform is a shared responsibility
The phrase "Health Care Reform" really isn't about care as much as it is about the access and affordability of health care. Because our dysfunctional health delivery system affects nearly every patient I see daily, I have asked myself, "Who is responsible for health care reform?" From my …
Nov 14, 2009 | 1:45 am | (8) Comments
City should follow committee's lead and take aim on waterfowl
Get out your pocketbook... Unable to make the hard decision about controlling the people/ waterfowl problem at Canyon Lake Park, the city council has made the easy decision: Pay someone else to take care of it.
Nov 13, 2009 | 10:00 am | (0) Comments
Reversing womens' rights
BOSTON - It was one of those small shocks that come unexpectedly in the wake of a death. Just days after the country had buried Ted Kennedy, Cardinal Sean O'Malley took to his blog to defend himself from critics attacking him for presiding over the funeral of a pro-choice senator.
Nov 13, 2009 | 1:45 am | (4) Comments
Herseth-Sandlin's muleskinner's blues
Taking the garbage out early Saturday morning, I opened the chain link gate in our backyard. Like a black cannonball, our mutt, Lester, shot past me full tilt toward three deer, dead ahead. Unfortunately, the deer were on the aft side of a hogwire fence around our little three acre wood. …
Nov 12, 2009 | 2:55 pm | (2) Comments
Jihadists' role in the U.S. military
By now, the script should be disturbingly familiar. Whether in the Middle East, or increasingly in America, a fanatical Muslim blows up or goes on a shooting spree, killing many. This is quickly followed by "condemnations" from "Muslim civil rights groups," like the Council on American-Is…
Nov 12, 2009 | 1:45 am | (7) Comments
Black Hills gold still shines
"There's gold in those Black Hills!"
Nov 12, 2009 | 1:15 am | (0) Comments
Deanna Darr: Memories of the fallen add meaning to marathon
Dennis Meier and Roger Heacock have run plenty of marathons, but none affected them quite like the Marine Corps Marathon on Oct. 25 in Washington, D.C.
Nov 11, 2009 | 4:50 pm | (0) Comments
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