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Celebrating Black History Month
Since 1976, February has been noted at Black History Month.

A sensible road map to a more agile defense
‘The Obama administration's 2013 defense budget outline is an attempt to accept current fiscal realities while avoiding the age-old mistake of planning to fight the last war.

Conserving for the future
A story on the front page of the Tuesday edition of the Today’s News-Herald reported that a small town in Texas had run out of water.

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Means testing for SSI is a very bad idea
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Change can happen by using ballot box
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Investigation of Holder called for
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Hard to prove recession might have been worse
My 95-year-old dad interrogates me in the colder months of every year about two small, bullet-shaped devices on the front end of my car.

Captains, cowardly and courageous
Ever since Francesco Schettino decided to treat a 114,000-ton cruise ship like a Jet Ski and buzz Isola del Giglio off Tuscany on Friday the 13th, people around the world have been ripping him.

Time to give debates a rest
Televised candidate debates have become the marquee spectacles of presidential campaigns. By the time Republicans vote in the Florida primary, candidates seeking the party’s presidential nomination will have debated 19 times since May. That’s 30-some hours of live national TV, plus untold hours of recap, recrimination and chatter spun off by the events.