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Cashing in big on back-to-school 
The nation’s 56 million school children are trudging back to school, bent double under bulging backpacks like Sherpa supplying a remote base camp or porters humping supplies down the Ho Chi Minh Trail.
By Dale McFeatters , August 20, 2010
Secrets of presidential team
When it comes to gushing “secret” documents, WikiLeak.com has no monopoly. Today this column is leaking one too — a blunt White House memo that says “TOP SECRET” at the very top.
By Martin Schram , August 19, 2010
Electric car faces ideology, market issues
Will Americans ever embrace automobiles that run on electricity rather than gasoline?
By John Crisp , August 19, 2010
Wisdom from Lloyd-Jones on talking to yourself
I will sometimes tell my children — well, mostly one in particular — “Honey, you need to talk less, and listen more.”
By Betsy Hart , August 18, 2010
Polish plane crash investigation suspicious
It’s never been clear what really happened on that foggy morning of April 10 when a Polish airplane crashed on a Russian runway, killing all 96 people aboard
By Diana West , August 17, 2010
Fed-up flight attendant no hero
The story of Steven Slater, the flight attendant who went berserk and illegally left his post by throwing himself down the escape slide, unfolded as the White House lost key senior staff. There are parallels here.
By Ann McFeatters , August 15, 2010
Don’t dismiss the opponents as the bigots
America is awash coast-to-coast in fights over the building of new mosques.
By Bonnie Erbe , August 14, 2010
Faulkner, Great Right Hope
“I am not going away,” 40-year veteran New York Congressman Charles Rangel told House colleagues Tuesday.
By Deroy Murdock , August 14, 2010
Intellectuals won't face up to Islam's sins
The controversy over plans to build a mosque near Ground Zero in Manhattan has taken an odd twist.
By Clifford May , August 14, 2010
Gibbs should 'shut up'
If nothing else, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs’ recent attack on the White House’s liberal critics demonstrates why frankness often backfires in politics.
By Gene Lyons , August 13, 2010
Hats making a comeback
Look at any crowd photo from the 1930s, ‘40s, even the ‘50s — a baseball game, for example. All the men are wearing hats, fedoras if it’s spring or fall, straw boaters if it’s summer. It was like it was a law: Men wear hats, period. They may have been dirt poor in the Great Depression, but they all had hats.
By Dale McFeatters , August 13, 2010
Machines behaving badly: Story of my life
Today we shall put aside all political battles to discuss a more insidious conflict: The one constantly waged between mankind and machines.
By Reg Henry , August 13, 2010
Gates one of a few things not broken in Washington
We interrupt our regularly scheduled rant about something else that’s wrong in Washington with some late-breaking news about something that is right — indeed, excellent — in the government.
By Martin Schram , August 12, 2010
What men really want
It’s not every day a woman gets to observe a bunch of guys learning how to develop significant relationships with women. But that’s exactly what I was allowed to watch a few weeks ago.
By Betsy Hart , August 11, 2010
Churchs Ferry or Churches Fairy?
“I want to complain about the minutes of our carrot meeting,” Little Jimmy announced as he joined the town’s 13 electors at the first special special meeting of the Community Homeland Security Committee convening in the cool northwest corner of the community hall. The bylaws prohibited meetings more often than monthly unless they were designated as special special meetings.
By Llyod Omdahl , August 08, 2010
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