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Program separates teens, trouble
By Leonard Pitts Jr.
July 6, 2008
Success breeds separation. That’s the thing no one tells you, the thing sometimes you don’t realize, the thing that might make a child turn from his own potential. Success is like a pyramid, broad at the bottom, but narrow at the summit; the higher you go, the fewer people go with you.
Nuptials change as the bride grows up
By George Gurley
July 6, 2008
An ominous moment arrives in every wedding when the minister invites anyone who can show “just cause” why the couple should not be married to “speak now; or else forever hold your peace.” No one ever speaks up, of course.
Circumstances boost justice’s influence
By David Broder
July 6, 2008
The most dramatic stories in any field of competitive endeavor are those that recount events that almost never happened. It’s the scoreless ballgames that end with a walk-off homer in the bottom of the ninth that linger in the psyches of winners and losers — not the 9-3 walkovers.
Duty, honor follow the fallen home
July 6, 2008
Sometimes Beck would linger in his vehicle in front of an American home, like that of the parents of Lance Cpl. Kyle Burns in Laramie, Wyo. Beck knew that, as Jim Sheeler writes, every second he waited “was one more tick of his wristwatch that, for the family inside the house, everything remained the same.”
Road trip souvenir leaves tourist ticked off
By Marsha Henry Goff
July 6, 2008
With bare feet — sans DEET — shoved into red Crocs (will I never learn?), I stood in thick grass at Gettysburg and worried about chiggers while listening to our guide speak of the Civil War battle of Culp’s Hill. It was a long battle — three days — and, while husband Ray assures me that the guide didn’t talk THAT long, I’m pretty sure he didn’t leave out many details.
Life in fast lane proves costly
By Cathy Hamilton
July 6, 2008
I got my first speeding ticket in 29 years, and I couldn’t be happier. Don’t get me wrong. At first, I was mad. I’m talking nail- spitting, fit-to-be-tied, bent-out-of-shape, hot-under-the-collar, up-in-arms, red-faced, seething, fuming anger, my friends.
Franken’s Senate candidacy is no joke
By David Shribman
July 6, 2008
So it’s come to this. You can spend the better part of an hour with Al Franken and hardly laugh at all.
Homegrown food is real independence
By Ellen Goodman
July 5, 2008
It’s been decades since that famous forager Euell Gibbons reached through the White House fence and picked four edible weeds out of the president’s garden. This is not something that the Secret Service would recommend you try today.
Time may alter perception of Bush presidency
By Cal Thomas
July 5, 2008
It is a privilege to spend 90 minutes with the president of the United States. It is frustrating, though, when 90 percent of those minutes are declared off the record.
Historical details don’t displace July 4th
By George Will
July 4, 2008
The impatient patriots here had splendidly short fuses in 1775. Those who tilled the startlingly red clay or who lived in the town named for George III’s wife Charlotte might have been bemused had they foreseen the annual hoopla that commemorates July 4, 1776.
This Fourth should be day of atonement
By Chris Satullo - The Philadelphia Inquirer
July 4, 2008
Put the fireworks in storage. Cancel the parade. Tuck the soaring speeches in a drawer for another time. This year, America doesn’t deserve to celebrate its birthday. This Fourth of July should be a day of quiet and atonement. For we have sinned.
America still a nation of values, ideals
By David Broder
July 3, 2008
Just in time for Independence Day, a conservative think tank has delivered a controversial report questioning whether America’s national identity is eroding under the pressure of population diversity and educational slackness.
Bush has dug a deep hole for the nation
By Garrison Keillor
July 3, 2008
A couple hours to kill on a humid afternoon in a small town in Massachusetts and rather than sit looking at hotel wallpaper I took a little walk.
Parents set tone on alcohol
By David Sedeno - McClatchy Newspapers
July 2, 2008
Making the rounds of several high school graduation parties a few weeks ago, I was struck by something that perplexed me, but did not surprise me. Toddlers, tweens, teenagers, parents and grandparents milled about at the various parties, congratulating the recent graduate and his friends. Cards and gifts were stacked on multiple tables and food was plentiful.
Obama-Clinton ‘unity’ raises questions
By Cal Thomas
July 2, 2008
In keeping with his “messiah” image, Barack Obama might have been more at home in Bethlehem, Pa., than in Unity, N.H., when he and his “former” nemesis, Hillary Clinton, opened their new act on the road to mixed reviews.

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