FIXING THE NATION'S SACRED MOMENT

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• WORKERS THE US NEEDS

  June 28, 2008 - PALO ALTO, CALIF. FIFTY years ago, Jack Kilby, who grew up in Great Bend, Kan., took his electrical-engineering knowledge to Texas Instruments - where he helped invent the modern world. Working...more >

• SOOTHING OBAMA, TWEAKING MCCAIN

  June 27, 2008 - TWO of yesterday's Supreme Court rulings -- both decided 5-4, and with the same alignment of justices -- concerned the Constitution's first two amendments. One ruling benefits Barack Obama by...more >

• OBAMA'S DUBIOUS CRIME EXCUSES

  June 23, 2008 - LISTENING to political talk requires a third ear that hears what is not said. To day's near silence about crime probably is evidence of social improvement. For many reasons, including better...more >

• BASEBALL'S DEBT TO HUMAN ERROR

  June 16, 2008 - "Baseball is the only thing besides the paper clip that hasn't changed." - Bill Veeck ONE must say it ain't so. Think of the designated hit ter, which illustrates why opposition is...more >

• NUMBERS GAME

  THE ODDS FAVOR BARACK

  June 12, 2008 - PRESIDENTIAL politics, like football, chess and other rule-bound competitions, is simple in objective but complex in execution. The objective is 270 electoral votes. This year the execution will...more >

• HILLARY, ALBATROSS

  A TRULY POISONOUS VEEP PICK

  June 6, 2008 - AN axiom: When voters watch a presumptive presidential nominee considering this or that running mate, they think: What if the president dies? When the presumptive nominee considers this or that...more >

• HYPOCRITES ON GAS

  BIPARTISAN US ENERGY IDIOCY

  June 5, 2008 - RISING in the Senate on May 13, Chuck Schumer, the New York Democrat, explained: "I rise to discuss rising energy prices." The president was heading to Saudi Arabia to seek an increase in...more >

• THE LAST DOUGHBOY

  GREAT WAR VET IS LIVING HISTORY

  May 26, 2008 - CHARLES TOWN, W. VA. NUMBERS come precisely from the agile mind and nimble tongue of Frank Buckles, who seems bemused to say that 4,734,991 Americans served in the military during America's...more >

• TROJAN BEARS?

  GREEN LEFT'S POLAR GAMBIT

  May 22, 2008 - A PREVENTIVE war worked out so well in Iraq that Washington last week launched another. The new preventive war - the government responding forcefully against a postulated future threat - has been...more >

• HILLARY'S ENTITLEMENT MENTALITY

  May 19, 2008 - WOMEN, we are told by some people who say they know them, are not amused. Women supposedly think that the impatience with the protracted futility of Hillary Clinton's campaign is disrespectful...more >