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People who relish power will abuse it
Their Views Comments Updated: May 19, 2013 12:06amThe Colorado Springs Gazette
Conservatives and liberals have long debated the most effective way to ensure accountability in government. Conservatives, who usually view human nature as...
Yemen, leopards and the Arab Spring
Their Views Comments Updated: May 19, 2013 12:06amANAA, Yemen — Arriving in Yemen last week, I had an experience I’d never had before.
I drove into Sanaa, the capital, on the main thoroughfare, through a raging torrent of water. I was...
Your Views for May 18
Your Views Comments Updated: May 19, 2013 12:06amRestrict GMOs
I remember my grandma in Honolulu lovingly holding a Kapoho papaya. I live on Hawaii Island now, and find it difficult to find that beautiful, large, old-style papaya. A 67...
Fire, prosecute IRS agents
Their Views Comments Updated: May 19, 2013 12:06amEven by the awful standards of Washington, where hubris and vindictiveness are standard operating procedure, the arrogance and malfeasance uncovered at the Internal Revenue Service and the U.S....
Your Views for May 19
Your Views Comments Updated: May 19, 2013 12:06amFake surplus
Gov. Abercrombie’s $300 million budget surplus is a fake “paper” surplus. The reality is that the state has a massive deficit of at least $483 million! The state’s Employee...
Not such strange bedfellows after all
Their Views Comments Updated: May 19, 2013 12:06amWASHINGTON — Breaking news: Conservative organizations suddenly have found common cause with one of their favorite objects of contempt — the benighted Mainstream Media.
Or as the tea party...
Ways to appreciate teachers
Their Views Comments Updated: May 17, 2013 12:07am“The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.”
— Mark Van Doren, poet, professor
Teaching often winds up in that large container of things loosely identified by society as “...
Cartoon for May 17
Their Views Comments Updated: May 17, 2013 12:06amThe world as seen by cartoonist Mike Thompson, The Detroit Free Press
President is asleep at the wheel
Their Views Comments Updated: May 17, 2013 12:06amWASHINGTON — President Passerby needs urgently to become a participant in his presidency.
Late Monday came the breathtaking news of a full-frontal assault on the First Amendment by his...
Your Views for May 17
Your Views Comments Updated: May 17, 2013 12:06amThank our officers
May 12-18 is National Police Week, a week that is set aside every year to honor the men and women who have fallen in the line of duty and a time to share our appreciation...
