Commentaries

• There's another side of breast cancer

  Commentary: Breast cancer is a different and much more aggressive disease in younger women, so routine but perhaps more sporadic screening should start in the 30s.

• Gen Xers - shortchanged generation

  Commentary: The prevailing wisdom is that Gen Yers are the least loyal to their employers.

• Trials may fuel anti-Muslim sentiment

  Commentary: Tragically, the Fort Hood massacre could have been avoided had the authorities paid attention to warning signs.

• Trying terrorists in U.S. is dangerous

  Commentary: The trial will likely be delayed for three to five years. Obama will either be out of office or into a second term by then.

• House version of bill punishes kids

  Commentary: Members of Congress patted themselves on the back and went off to satisfy other constituencies.
  "We are eating our seed corn." - Marian Wright Edelman, Children's Defense Fund

• Minding our manners in America

  Commentary: Making debate cool is a challenge, not least because clear thinking is hard work that requires skill and discipline.

More Commentaries

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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
  
• Bernie Madoff has a deal for you
  
• The $300 pill; medical costs hit home
  
• Jihadists in our nation's military
  
• Creating jobs is top for Washington
  
• The great passion of Henry Allen
  
• 
  Reaching the limit
  
• E-mail - nothing to write home about
  

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