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February 5, 2012
Sally Kalson
The good news is that the Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation has seen the error of its way and reversed its plans to eliminate grants to Planned Parenthood. The bad news is how it lost sight of its mission to begin with.
February 5, 2012
Gene Collier
You know it's time to kick the ball when the required talk from both teams clangs onto the bottom rung of Super Bowl rhetoric.
February 5, 2012
Brian O'Neill
"In retrospect,'' Bill DeWeese told me over dinner last June, "I should have been more administratively punctilious.'' That's the way Mr. DeWeese always has spoken in his 35 years representing Pennsylvania's southwest corner in the state House.
February 5, 2012
Jack Kelly
"A Tale of Two Cities" illustrated how starkly different were the views in London and Paris of the French Revolution. There's a similar gulf between Democrats and Republicans on economic policy
February 5, 2012
David Shribman
There was a discredited president, distrusted by his own party, portrayed by even his fondest allies as a disappointing underachiever. There was an eastern governor, decorated with breathtaking academic credentials and a star turn in the non-profit sector, mounting a serious challenge.
February 3, 2012
Tony Norman
Mitt Romney may not be the most callous candidate who has ever run for president, but he is surely the most out of touch. Everything about the GOP frontrunner screams awkwardness around those in lower income brackets. Ironically, most Americans earn less money but are in higher tax brackets than Mitt "Mr. 15 Percent" Romney.
February 1, 2012
Reg Henry
One thing that television is good for is making you feel better about yourself -- not the TV programs so much, but the ads, particularly the ones advertising pharmaceutical drugs. In other countries I have lived in -- Australia, Britain -- I do not remember prescription drugs being advertised in this way.
February 1, 2012
Ron Cook
In a conference room Tuesday night high above the Consol Energy Center ice, Penguins general manager Ray Shero and upbeat superstar Sidney Crosby spoke hopefully about the future but stopped well short of predicting when it might arrive. At the same time, the other Penguins players prepared to play the Toronto Maple Leafs in the here and now. It was business as usual for them.
January 30, 2012
Ruth Ann Dailey
To win the 2012 Republican nomination and have a decent chance against President Barack Obama in November, the eventual candidate will have to mollify and motivate three factions: the GOP establishment, the religious right and the tea party. Though the religious right is a wing of the GOP, the tea party most insistently is not; the two entities hold one another in mutual mistrust.
January 26, 2012
Samantha Bennett
As we all know from the world of politics, if you say something enough times, it becomes true. As we all know from the world of self-help gurus, if you say something enough times, especially while looking into a mirror, you become good enough, smart enough and, doggone it, people really do like you.
January 25, 2012
Dan Simpson
Much about Newt Gingrich's campaign for the Republican presidential nod is puzzling, but I found his compliment of the news media in South Carolina last week for its "destructive, vicious, negative nature" to be encouraging. I'm sure he meant it as a snivel, but the fact that he noted it means that we are doing our jobs.
