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Murdock column: "Green Tax" better than cap and trade

 You cannot fight something with nothing. This simple fact should be chiseled in stone above the House and Senate Republican cloakrooms. House Republicans energetically debated the cap-and-trade bill's myriad shortcomings last week. Alas, they never... Full story

David Broder column: Has society healed itself of race-conscious remedies?

DAVID S. BRODER / The Washington Post

The implicit message, delivered by the Supreme Court majority in two of the most important decisions of the term that ended this week, is that racial discrimination is no longer as big a problem as we once thought. Neither the voting rights case out... Full story

How to keep kids from getting bored over summer

Staff reports

With summertime here, many parents anticipate more relaxed schedules, family get-togethers, and time to catch up. Yes, summertime happens, but then reality hits. Kids complain of constant boredom - not enough to do, not enough friends to hang out with,... Full story

Bart Mills: A simple idea that just might work

Bart Mills

There are a lot of ideas floating around out there right now about how to boost local economies. Most of them aren't very good and some are just plain lousy. But Cinda Baxter's idea, it strikes me as a pretty good one. Baxter's idea bloomed forth exactly... Full story

George Will column: Supreme Court's close vote depressing on racial rabble-rousing

George Will / The Washington Post

 Although New Haven's firefighters deservedly won in the Supreme Court, it is deeply depressing that they won narrowly - 5-4. The egregious behavior by that city's government, in a context of racial rabble-rousing, did not seem legally suspect to... Full story

John Grindrod: A cautionary tale about going to the old ball yard

John Grindrod

On a beautiful spring Sunday, Shannon, my special lady friend, Jane, and I found ourselves walking into the newest addition to The Arena District in Columbus, Huntington Park, the first-year home of the Indians' AAA affiliate, the Clippers. It was the... Full story

Mitch Albom column: We're wacko in how we view Jacko

By MITCH ALBOM, Detroit Free Press

Michael Jackson left this world five days ago. But he hadn't been living in it for a long time. In fact, it's hard to think of a celebrity who had less to do with the real world than Jackson. In the real world, you don't have pet llamas or roller coasters... Full story

Ben Marrison column: Racetracks undeserving of slot money

Ben Marrison, editor, The Columbus Dispatch

Everybody's hurting. Car dealers. Home builders. Retail stores. Metal stamping plants. Airlines. Newspapers. Banks. Insurance companies. Cities. States. School districts. Given the widespread economic pain, why should the state give hundreds of millions... Full story

Thomas Sowell column: Why the alarm about American health care?

By THOMAS SOWELL

Most political and media discussions of medical care have an air of unreality reminiscent of Alice in Wonderland. There is an abundance of catch-phrases but remarkably few coherent arguments. Let's start at square one. Why is there alarm about American... Full story

Tom Harrison: Kitty came running when sergeant sang scat

Tom Harrison

That was one laid-back local cat that stole the show on a sultry Wednesday evening last week when the Airmen of Note jazz ensemble entertained a crowd of several hundred in Lima's Faurot Park. You might even say that swingin' cat was a regular party... Full story

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