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‘The Disease Has Exploded’

Published: Jul 7 2008, 11:02 PM · Updated: Jul 7 2008, 11:25 PM

By Susan Estrich

It was the headline you never wanted to see. For nearly two years, I have started my day by checking in on Leroy Sievers to see how he is doing. His “My Cancer” blog on npr.com has become a family of sorts for people living with cancer, for people taking care of family and friends with cancer, and for anyone who has been touched by the disease or who hasn’t.

Obama’s call to faith

Published: Jul 7 2008, 11:01 PM

By Mary Sanchez

Barack Obama is channeling JFK these days. Oddly, he’s doing it through one of George W. Bush’s more controversial policies.

Court clarifies Second Amendment

Published: Jul 6 2008, 11:29 PM

By Phyllis Schlafly

Liberals are trying to spin the U.S. Supreme Court’s dramatic decision in the gun case as creating a “new” constitutional right. They couldn’t be more wrong; the Supreme Court simply restated the individual right the Founding Fathers wrote into the Second Amendment that has been part of the Constitution since Dec. 15, 1791.

Democracies can react faster than the U.N. on genocide and global disasters

Published: Jul 6 2008, 12:00 AM

By Lawrence J. Haas

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Fourth of July reminded us not only to celebrate our democracy, but also to assess the most serious challenges to it. These days, those challenges emanate less from home than abroad, and the United States should take appropriate action on the world stage to defend itself.

As it stands: Outsourcing newspapers is offensive

Published: Jul 5 2008, 11:59 PM

By Dave Stancliff

I almost got sick recently when I heard that a Pulitzer Prize-winning daily newspaper, The Orange County Register, was outsourcing copy editing, and even page design for one of their community newspapers — to India!

Does Patriotism Matter?

Published: Jul 5 2008, 11:57 PM

The Fourth of July is a patriotic holiday, but patriotism has long been viewed with suspicion or disdain by many of the intelligentsia. As far back as 1793, prominent British writer William Godwin called patriotism “high-sounding nonsense.”

A beautiful swing; a compromised future

Published: Jul 5 2008, 11:55 PM

By Garrison Keillor

A couple of hours to kill on a humid afternoon in a small town in Massachusetts and rather than sit looking at hotel wallpaper I took a little walk. A pretty town, well-kept, especially in the historic district where we tourists congregate — old shopfronts that once sold hardware, dry goods, groceries, now selling candles, collectibles and coffee, and old white frame houses that make you think of large happy families in a Norman Rockwell painting (he lived in Stockbridge, not far from here) with plump women in print dresses putting platters of food on a picnic table for the Glorious Fourth.

A nation in decline?

Published: Jul 4 2008, 11:38 PM

By Bill O’Reilly

Just in time for Independence Day, the bible of the American left, The New York Times, continues to opine that the United States is a “nation in decline.” Hoping to see a Democrat in the White House, the newspaper has been hammering home that theme on its editorial pages.

Turning negative to positive

Published: Jul 4 2008, 11:37 PM

By Dave Silverbrand

I slammed down the phone. My earlobes turned crimson and my forehead quivered. I muttered words I usually saved for special occasions. Someone had messed with Dave, questioning his “professionalism.” I showed up, didn’t I? I’d have cursed him with a pox on his family, but they had already suffered enough.

Obama’s candidacy is a test

Published: Jul 4 2008, 11:36 PM

By Michael Barone

“They’re going to try to make you afraid of me,” Barack Obama told the audience at a Jacksonville fund-raiser last month. “He’s young and inexperienced and he’s got a funny name. And did I mention he’s black?” Obama was doing here by inference what many of his supporters do more explicitly. Obama’s candidacy, in their view, puts American voters to the test: Are they open-minded enough to vote for a black candidate? Or are they still so overcome by racial prejudice as to reject the first black candidate with a serious chance to win?

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