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Editorial

Reform foes would scrap Medicare
How wrong are the critics of health care reform? Dangerously wrong - especially if you are a senior or an American with a disability

Cap Times columnists

John Nichols
Baldwin rejects know-nothing approach to Mideast
The United States Congress embarrassed itself last week. To her credit, however, Madison Democrat Tammy Baldwin did not participate in the charade.
Nov 08, 2009 | 5:00 am
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Dave Zweifel
Plain Talk: Kids will never forget Obama visit
Students at Wright Middle School, who were in the gym an hour and a half before Barack Obama arrived, showed more patience than roomfuls of newspaper editors
Nov 06, 2009 | 5:00 am
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Cap Times Columnists

Barbara Quirk
Care coordination can cut health costs
Are you totally confused by the issue of health care reform and the spin that the politicians are putting on it? You should be.
Nov 03, 2009 | 4:30 am
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Ed Garvey
Wanted: Dem to run for gov. Must raise $41,000/day.
Democrats are forced to seek candidates based on their fundraising capacity, not their ideas or their character, and that's a shame.
Nov 02, 2009 | 5:00 am
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Commentary

Andrea Kaminski: Preserving confidence in our courts

Any citizen who has to appear in court should have absolute confidence that the judge will be fair and impartial.

Nov 08, 2009 | 5:00 am | Loading…

Buzz Davis: Department of Peace is what nation needs

Veterans Day is coming Nov. 11. But for most vets, it never gets here.

Nov 08, 2009 | 4:45 am | Loading…

Michael Meyer: Fall of Berlin Wall a lesson in 'what if?'

For weeks, the scene has been replayed on TV screens around the world, as if the events were breaking news: joyous Berliners dancing atop the infamous wall, toppled 20 years ago on Nov. 9, 1989.

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Susan Campbell: It's not cheap to kill inmates

In the long, heated debate about capital punishment, we go round and round about justice or revenge, as if the two ideas operate independently of one another.

Nov 08, 2009 | 4:00 am | Loading…

Joel McNally: Democrats vs. Democrats

Humorist Will Rogers summed it up a long time ago when he said: "I don't belong to any organized political party. I'm a Democrat."

Nov 07, 2009 | 5:00 am | Loading…

Roland S. Martin: Mr. President, Cousin Pookie needs a job

When President Barack Obama traveled to Virginia to try to resuscitate the deplorable campaign of gubernatorial candidate Creigh Deeds, he invoked a familiar nickname in black America: Cousin Pookie.

Nov 07, 2009 | 4:45 am | Loading…

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