Commentaries

• Fort Hood another intelligence failure

  Commentary: The FBI obviously also failed to see the obvious shift in Hasan's attitudes and emotions as much of a threat.

• Reproductive rights under siege again

  Commentary: Women need a full range of reproductive services - including prenatal care, contraception and abortion services.

• Hating your cake, and eating it, too

  Commentary: Americans have a soft spot for damsels in distress, no matter how faux the foe.
  COLUMBIA, S.C. - In town to give a talk on civility, I was surrounded by women who wondered what I thought of Sarah Palin's Newsweek cover.

• Tracking stress levels

  

  Two days before shipping off to war, Marine Pfc. Jesse Sheets sat inside a trailer in the Mojave Desert, his gaze fixed on a computer that flashed a rhythmic pulse of contrasting images.

• Have makeover without using God's name

  Commentary: If we respected God and people even in the little things, the whole culture might be made over for the better in the big ones.

• Civilian courts fight terrorists, too

  Commentary: New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg thinks the city can handle any risk from terrorists.

More Commentaries

• Oil's expanding frontiers
  
• There's another side of breast cancer
  
• Gen Xers - shortchanged generation
  
• Trials may fuel anti-Muslim sentiment
  
• Trying terrorists in U.S. is dangerous
  
• House version of bill punishes kids
  
• Minding our manners in America
  
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  Restless times
  
• Who spawned all these nuts? Ayn Rand
  
• Nostalgia for bad old days
  
• ‘Fallen Soldier'– a picture can lie
  
• Stupak-Pitts shoves women to back of bus
  

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