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  • A quick count for L.A.

    With any luck, the campaign for mayor of Los Angeles will end Tuesday in a decisive victory for one candidate or the other. Then the winner can begin the task of building an administration and filling the ranks of commission appointments that will form the city's leadership core for the next four - or possibly eight - years. But this is a close race, and many residents have voted by mail or ...

  • Prayers in public offices

    The Supreme Court should rule that prayers in official meetings in Greece, N.Y., shouldn't favor a particular religion. Public bodies should stick to secular ...

  • Goldberg Obamas idiot defense

    David Axelrod defended the administration on the grounds that the "government is so vast" the president "can't know" what's going on "underneath" him. Of course, it was Obama who once said, "I know more about policies on any particular issue than my policy directors." In a matter of weeks, the president went from saying the "government is ...

  • GAFFNEY The night that all the lights go out

    View results In 1987, Ronald Reagan mused that if the world were about to be devastated by an alien force - perhaps a collision with a large asteroid - peoples of all nations, ideological persuasions and political parties would come together to save the planet and our civilization. We may be about to test that proposition.At the moment, no asteroid is known to be hurtling our way. A naturally ...

  • SOLOMON Chilling one reporters sources

    Justice Department secretly collected the phone records of four of my former colleagues at The Associated Press, I was one of the first reporters to have his home phone records and personal mail gathered by ...


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Movie Review

Coyote Ugly

"Coyote Ugly" is not much more than a silly, groan-inducing tale of a good girl trying to make it in big bad New York City livened up with a few rousing scenes of curvaceous young women in tight leather pants and wet tank tops shaking their stuff on a bar. It is of little surprise that the film's entire ad campaign has been based on the latter part of that description, rather than the former, eve ... ...

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  • EDITORIAL Mr. Obama and his scandals

    Mr. Pruitt , ';if you talk to the press, we’re going to go after you.';The FBI did obtain a warrant before demanding that Google turn over the personal emails ...

  • DEAN The truth about big government

    David Axelrod , one of President Obama’s most amusing spinners. He recently opined - if that is the right term - that the government the president leads is so ';vast'; that the president cannot be expected to know, much less be accountable for, what goes on in it. Imagine that. This is the same man who wants to grow that same government and to give the same agency that prompted ...

  • EDITORIAL A voice for the goose

    City Council in Takoma Park, Md., prides itself as living on the cutting edge of liberalism. The small town bristles at life in the left-leaning shadow of the District of Columbia, and often tries to go one small step further left. Takoma Park has declared itself a ';nuclear-free zone'; and a ';sanctuary city'; for illegal aliens. Foie gras is banned in restaurants (goose ...

  • BURRACK Sowing the seeds of farm failure

    U.S. Department of Agriculture this month took an unfortunate step toward Europeanization when it delayed the approval of two crops that will help farmers control weeds and produce more food. The decision didn’t receive much immediate attention outside the agricultural press, but it sent a troubling signal about the future of farm technology that should concern all Americans.At the heart ...

  • RAHN Why the IRS cannot be reformed

    IRS regulations are devoted to trying to define income. This may seem simple, but consider a business that operates in numerous states and countries and has many product lines. Beginning accounting students learn that business profit or income is equal to net revenue minus expenses. Yet, it is almost impossible to precisely define what is and is not a legitimate expense. What is the proper rate ...

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