Commentary: Flunking on public education reform
SAN DIEGO — President Obama had been getting high marks in his first year in office for what seemed to be an insightful approach to education reform. Too bad he flunked the final.
RELATED CONTENTCommentary: Charting our way back to the solvency of our country
WASHINGTON — In 2013, when President Mitch Daniels, former Indiana governor, is counting his blessings, at the top of his list will be the name of his vice president: Paul Ryan. The former congressman from Wisconsin will have come to office with ideas for steering the federal government to solvency.
RELATED CONTENTObama: The man who fell to earth 
WASHINGTON — Chastened is not an adjective normally associated with Barack Obama. But that was the underlying theme of his State of the Union address: that a rocky first year in office had left Americans unsure about whether he can produce the soaring change he once promised.
RELATED CONTENTA lobe divided will not stand 
WASHINGTON — Barack Obama tiptoed Wednesday night along the seam that bifurcates the Democratic Party’s brain. The seam separates that brain’s John Quincy Adams lobe from its Sigmund Freud lobe.
RELATED CONTENTLetter: What about the perpetrators? 
I see the Wagars are still making front-page news. Why? This man was trying to protect his property. We don’t see or hear anything of the perpetrators who were “having fun.”
RELATED CONTENTLetter: The power of one vote 
On Jan. 19 the people of Massachusetts went to the polls and overwhelmingly elected a new senator, a conservative who drives a 2005 pickup truck. This should be a lesson to all people in Civics 101 that the power of one vote does count.
RELATED CONTENTCommentary: A missed opportunity on profiling 
SAN DIEGO — I, for one, would have liked to have seen President Obama condemn racial and ethnic profiling in his lengthy and otherwise far-reaching State of the Union address.
RELATED CONTENTLetter: Supporting free enterprise 
I’d like to take this opportunity to respond to Warren Crackel’s letter to the editor that appeared in the Jan. 27 edition of the Tribune.
RELATED CONTENTLetter: Climate and the human factor 
Mankind does have a part in global warming and climate change.
RELATED CONTENTEditorial: Spending limit is first step in deficit battle 
While the Senate voted Thursday to authorize a new national spending limit, House Blue Dog Democrats successfully included a tough new “pay-as-you-go” budget item.
RELATED CONTENTCommentary: A ‘reform’ wisely struck down 
WASHINGTON — Last week’s Supreme Court decision that substantially deregulates political speech has provoked an edifying torrent of hyperbole. Critics’ dismay reveals their conviction: Speech about the elections that determine the government’s composition is not a constitutional right but a mere privilege that exists at the sufferance of government.
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