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The Metropolitan Opera in New York City is hardly a site for hundreds of angry protesters. But they have erupted over their current selection, an opera called "The Death of Klinghoffer." Leon Klinghoffer was the 69-year-old paralyzed New Yorker who in 1985 was aboard the hijacked cruise ship Achille Lauro, then executed by Islamic terrorists because he was a Jew. The terrorists forced the ship's barber and a waiter to throw his body and his wheelchair overboard off the coast of Egypt.
October 24, 2014
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L. BRENT BOZELL III
Founder and President of the Media Research Center
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You heard it here first.
October 23, 2014
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By PHILIP BOOKMAN
Woodbridge Writers Group
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Here we go again - into yet another war in a tumultuous swath of the world we still don't comprehend. For a preview of what we're stepping into in Iraq and Syria, let's remember Afghanistan.
October 22, 2014
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By JIM HIGHTOWER
Political columnist
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If you believe Houston Mayor Annise Parker, then you have to believe that when lawyers for her city subpoenaed five local pastors and demanded their sermons, the episode represented an unfortunate instance of lawyer overreach, with no intent to harass or intimidate the opposition.
October 21, 2014
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By Debra Saunders
National columnist
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I know Republicans who voted for Jerry Brown in 2010. They thought he'd be like Richard Nixon going to China and stand up to public employee unions by fixing a dysfunctional pension system. They thought he'd live up to his pose as elder sage, ready to do what's best for California. After he won a return engagement as governor, Brown liked to bloviate about the need for elected officials to demonstrate "loyalty to California."
October 20, 2014
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In 1492, "Columbus sailed the ocean blue" and discovered the New World. And Oct. 12 was once a celebrated holiday in America.
October 18, 2014
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By Pat Buchanan
Founder and editor of the American Conservative
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Growing up in Washington in the 1930s and '40s, our home was, several times, put under quarantine. A poster would be tacked on the door indicating the presence within of a contagious disease - measles, mumps, chicken pox, scarlet fever.
October 17, 2014
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By Pat Buchanan
Founder and editor of the American Conservative
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I'd like to think that if I got the bad news that Brittany Maynard received - terminal cancer with a prognosis of less than six months left to live - I'd be like her. I'd like to be stoic and brave. I'd like to take charge of the rest of my cruelly abbreviated life. If I were facing death at age 29, I would want to find meaning in an end come too soon.
October 16, 2014
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By Debra Saunders
National columnist
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Just in the United States, the cosmetics industry pulls in some $70 billion a year in sales of what's commonly called "makeup." But lipstick, mascara, eye shadow, and the like aren't the only kind of makeup the cosmetic giants are peddling.
October 15, 2014
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By JIM HIGHTOWER
Political columnist
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Corporations are funneling money to right-wing governors who work against the interests of their customers and employees.
October 12, 2014
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By JIM HIGHTOWER
Political columnist
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Practically everyone expects California Attorney General Kamala Harris to win re-election handily in November. The Democrat won 53 percent of the vote in a crowded June primary. A rising star expected to ascend someday to the governorship, perhaps a U.S. Senate seat, Harris has won the endorsement of major newspapers in the state. She's such an attractive candidate that even though it was true, President Barack Obama had to apologize last year for calling her "by far the best-looking attorney general in the country."
October 10, 2014
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By Debra Saunders
National columnist
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Rather than urge guests to leave bigger tips and thank you notes, Marriott should pay its housekeepers a living wage.
October 10, 2014
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By JIM HIGHTOWER
Political columnist
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I paid less than $10,000 to earn my college degree from a top-ranked school.
October 10, 2014
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By DIANA ANAHI TORRES
Institute for Policy Studies
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I hadn't heard from my friend John in some time.
October 09, 2014
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PHILIP BOOKMAN
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A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about Westover Vineyards of Castro Valley. Owner Bill Smyth is preparing to shutter his winery because the California Department of Industrial Relations slapped him with $115,550 in fines, back wages and penalties for using unpaid volunteers. Those fees put Westover in the red.
October 09, 2014
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Debra Saunders
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