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Obama: Find time for Islam
By Leonard Pitts
It is not difficult to understand why Barack Obama has a fear of scarves.
No quick fixes left for energy problems
By Charlotte Eby
Forget the war in Iraq — soaring gas prices have eclipsed other concerns as the most important political issue this fall.
GUEST COLUMN: Attention needed for real national treasure
By Timothy Walch, director of the Herbert Hoover Library
On this Fourth of July, as we Iowans struggle to preserve flood-ravaged documents and historic memorabilia, other Americans will stand in long lines to read the Declaration of Independence. Try as they might, however, these visitors to the National Archives will not be able to make out many of the words on that precious piece of parchment. It is a sad fact of history that we nearly loved this document to death.
GUEST COLUMN: Celebrate service today
By Dan Holst
Independence. Liberty. Freedom. Each word different, yet so much the same. Each sacred meaning raised the ire of our revolutionaries, and each ideal spirited from the brows of America’s founders.
Evidence remains of American values
By David Broder
WASHINGTON — Just in time for Independence Day, a conservative think tank has delivered a controversial report questioning whether America’s national identity is eroding under the pressure of population diversity and educational slackness.
Obama swaps positions and pin
By Charles Krauthammer
WASHINGTON — You’ll notice Barack Obama is now wearing a flag pin. Again. During the primary campaign, he refused to, explaining that he’d worn one after 9/11 but then stopped because it “became a substitute for, I think, true patriotism.”
Obama's patriotism speaks volumes
By David Ignatius
WASHINGTON — During the July 4th week, Barack Obama did something that’s becoming characteristic of his campaign: He took an issue on which he appeared to be vulnerable — in this case the cluster of themes lumped together as “patriotism” — and by going on the offensive in a powerful speech, he subtly changed the terms of the debate.
Circumstances elevate Justice Kennedy over Congress or the presidency
By David Broder
WASHINGTON — The most dramatic stories in any field of competitive endeavor are those that recount events that almost never happened. It’s the scoreless ballgames that end with a walk-off homer in the bottom of the ninth that linger in the psyches of winners and losers — not the 9-3 walkovers.
As teenage work ethic declines, illegal immigrants pick up slack
By Ruben Navarrette
SAN DIEGO — When you grab hold of the thorny topic of immigration, sometimes you can’t tell what part of the discussion will prick your finger.
Candidates look abroad for debates
By David Ignatius
WASHINGTON — Here’s a crazy idea that’s being discussed by the rulers of the Persian Gulf city-state of Dubai: What if they were to invite Barack Obama and John McCain to come to the desert oasis for a presidential debate?
Presidential talk dumbs down through the ages
By David Broder
WASHINGTON — People campaign for the presidency by talking their heads off. By the time the winner reaches the White House, the habit is so ingrained that it is impossible to shake.
Way too soon
By Times Staff
Tim Dose had fretted just a bit about his dental surgery to some co-workers, who winced as they discussed his plight over lunch Tuesday about the same time he was having a wisdom tooth extracted.
