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June 18, 2013
OTHER VOICES
Ten-year-old Sarah Murnaghan of Pennsylvania has new transplanted lungs today. She didn’t get them in the usual way, by moving to the top of the waiting list and being fortunate enough that a donation of suitable lungs came through.
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June 18, 2013
Jordan’s Web policy mistake
Jordan’s King Abdullah II has a lot on his plate. Not only is the kingdom hosting nearly 500,000 Syrian refugees, the economy is deteriorating, there’s serious unrest in the southern town of Maan, plus persistent protests related to a widespread perception of officially sanctioned corruption and burgeoning domestic opposition to the U.S.
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June 17, 2013
A requiem for the wealth effect?
WASHINGTON — In the economic history of our time, June 6, 2013, ought to occupy a special place. That’s the day the Federal Reserve disclosed the net worth of American households — the value of what they own minus what they owe — hit $70 trillion, a record that exceeded the previous peak before the 2007-09 financial crisis.
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June 17, 2013
VA upgrades would improve care
MINNEAPOLIS — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has named the elimination of hospital-acquired infections one of their “Top Ten Winnable Battles.” It’s an admirable goal and imminently achievable.
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June 17, 2013
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If Americans preferred not to think about how much they have surrendered in the war on terror, they can’t avoid doing so now. They can’t make a phone call to their dentist or hairdresser without having their home or cell phone number secretly taken down by Washington, along with the other party’s number, the time of the call and its length. It’s that bad.
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June 15, 2013
Fighting fatherlessness in America
Sixty percent of kids in Richmond, Va., are without a dad in the home, reports First Things First of Greater Richmond.
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June 14, 2013
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Over the weekend, as Americans were still absorbing double-barreled revelations about the extent of the National Security Agency’s electronic surveillance, the source of that information outed himself. Edward J.
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June 14, 2013
Congress has its head in the sand
Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., a former chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, is hopping mad. Sensenbrenner considers himself the father of the Patriot Act, the 2001 law that gave the federal government new powers to investigate potential terrorists.
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June 13, 2013
Scowling face of the regulatory state
WASHINGTON — As soon as the Constitution permitted him to run for Congress, Al Salvi did. In 1986, just 26 and fresh from the University of Illinois law school, he sank $1,000 of his own money, which was most of his money, into his campaign to unseat an incumbent Democratic congressman. Salvi studied for the bar exam during meals at campaign dinners.
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June 12, 2013
Stay calm, let the NSA carry on
After 9/11, there was a widespread expectation of many more terrorist attacks on the United States. So far that hasn’t happened. We haven’t escaped entirely unscathed (see Boston Marathon, bombing of), but on the whole we have been a lot safer than most security experts, including me, expected.
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June 12, 2013
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A bill that would require the collection of sales tax for online purchases sailed through the U.S. Senate in a 69-27 vote in May, but it faces tougher going in the House.
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