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"Your Voice" features longer and distinctively personal commentary from readers on topics that don't seem to fit in a letter to the editor. Try to limit submissions to about 600 words.
Send proposed articles to chief editorial writer Patrick O'Callahan, The News Tribune, PO Box 11000, Tacoma, Wash. 98411 (or e-mail Patrick O'Callahan). Articles may be edited and republished in any format by The News Tribune.
You figure the White House is probably feeling pretty good about itself right now.
WASHINGTON – As if President Obama didn’t have enough on his plate with health care and Afghanistan, he’s now faced with the problem that can’t be solved: Women.
WASHINGTON – Barack Obama didn’t set out to be a “war president,” but that’s what history compels him to be.
Here is what I remember of 1980. It was the year Robin Williams dressed in a fetching red jumpsuit as Mork from Ork, the Rolling Stones toured the world and I learned to drive.
I was recently in an office where a secretary told me she wasn’t going to let her child get a swine flu shot. So I asked her a question that is appropriate for someone with that level of confusion:
BOSTON – This story begins, as do so many dramas, at the box office. We are standing in line, three generations defined by a three-tier price structure: senior, adult, child.
WASHINGTON – Within the next few weeks, probably as soon as the votes on health care reform have been taken, the Senate faces the painful duty of once again raising the statutory limit on the national debt, as the House already has done.
The $4.35 billion Race to the Top Fund provides a powerful incentive for Washington to join the education mainstream. More discretionary money than the feds have ever made available, the funds will be awarded to states to spur and support eduction reform.
WASHINGTON – In an act of merciful sanity, the Obama administration has made good on its promise to stop interfering with states that allow the medical use of marijuana.
WASHINGTON — Now we know the answer to one of the vexing questions of the modern age: Evidently, there is nothing at all that some people won’t do to get on television.
As proof: balloon boy.
WASHINGTON – As Harvard’s president, Larry Summers, economist and former Treasury secretary, was a lion in a den of Daniels. The faculty Daniels, their tender feelings hurt by his occasional testiness, cowered together and declared him a meanie. Facing a faculty vote of no confidence, he resigned.
WASHINGTON – As the war of words escalates between conservative gabmeisters and the White House, Americans might pause to wonder: Have we lost our minds?
So we may soon have ourselves a conservative Bible. Besides Fox News, I mean.
It’s surprising how much of the spectacular scenery in the world is instantly familiar, though you have never seen it before. In fact, it is common to visit places for the first time and still have the feeling you have been there.
WASHINGTON – About the only thing more comical than Barack Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize was the reaction of those who deemed the award “premature,” as if the brilliance of Obama’s foreign policy is so self-evident and its success so assured that if only the Norway Five had waited a few years, his Nobel worthiness would have been universally acknowledged.
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