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We don't know why Faleh Hassan Almaleki came to this country in the mid-1990s, and it's unlikely he'll be able to tell us anytime soon. He's in jail in Maricopa County, Ariz., at this writing, in lieu of a $5 million cash bond. It hardly seems far-fetched, however, to suppose he emigrated from his native Iraq for the same reason immigrants typically seek these shores: America promises opportunity and freedom.

  • Jonah Goldberg: The end of a liberal era that never began

    By Jonah Goldberg, Tribune Media Services | Today at 12:07 a.m.

    It's all so terribly sad.

  • Reforms still needed

    Nov. 8 at 12:07 a.m.

    The following is an excerpt of remarks made by FDIC Chairwoman Sheila Bair at Kansas State University's Alfred M. Landon Lecture Series last week in Manhattan:

  • Trudy Rubin: U.S. needs strategy for handling Karzai

    Nov. 8 at 12:54 a.m.

    The re-election of Afghan President Hamid Karzai creates new headaches for the Obama administration. But it also presents opportunities to be seized.

  • Kansas farmers would gain from cap-and-trade

    By Tom Vilsack | Nov. 8 at 12:07 a.m.

    Throughout history, America's farmers and ranchers have embraced the opportunities presented by science to improve productivity and make our country the breadbasket of the world. Today, rural America has the opportunity to once again embrace science and lead efforts to build a clean-energy economy, achieve energy independence, and combat global climate change.

  • Dr. Bill Roy: Need to get everyone in health care system

    Nov. 7 at 1:53 a.m.

    I have slowly realized that the fiasco going forward in Washington, D.C., under the rubric of health care reform is severely handicapped by the failure of the people of this nation to decide whether of not everyone has a right to health care.

  • Jonah Goldberg: Conservatives tired of moderating

    Nov. 6 at 12:50 a.m.

    If there's one thing liberal pundits are experts on these days, it's the sorry state of conservatism. The airwaves and opinion pages brim with more-in-sorrow-than-in-anger lamentations on the GOP's failure to get with President Obama's program, the party's inevitable demographic demise and its thralldom to the demonic deities of the right — Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin.

  • Clarence Page: 'Death panel' canard won't die

    By Clarence Page, Tribune Media Services | Nov. 6 at 12:07 a.m.

    Sarah Palin, the Alaska governor-turned-blogger, cannot see Russia from her house, as Tina Fey's version of her claimed in a "Saturday Night Live" skit. But she is poking this country's politics from her laptop.

  • Clarence Page: Racial hope fades despite Obama

    Nov. 5 at 1:50 a.m.

    In my favorite "Star Trek" episode, Capt. James T. Kirk and the crew of the starship Enterprise encountered humanoids from a planet embroiled in war over an issue as clear as black and white. Literally.

  • Obama has Fox News; Truman had Time magazine

    By Dick Polman, Philadelphia Inquirer | Nov. 5 at 12:07 a.m.

    Harry Truman could have taught Barack Obama a thing or two about how to deal with a hostile press — basically, by ignoring it.

  • Dear Sarah: Keep up the great writing

    By Carl Hiaasen, Miami Herald | Nov. 3 at 11:03 p.m.

    Confidential response of Sarah Palin's book editor to the first draft of her coming memoir, "Going Rogue":

  • Cal Thomas: Free-market fixes are best option

    Nov. 4 at 6:44 a.m.

    Why should Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., be believed when he promises states can "opt out" of a public option on health care? This isn't like opting out of sex education class. Individuals won't be able to avoid the consequences of national health care once the government puts the insurance companies out of business.

  • Health bill won't insure us against mounting deficits

    By Jim Landers, Dallas Morning News | Nov. 2 at 11:05 p.m.

    President Obama's top economic adviser said last week that health care reform is essential to gaining control of the nation's deficit. But Christina Romer was only able to applaud congressional attempts to keep from adding still more to the nation's overspending.

  • Mary Sanchez: Hate crimes law no threat to religious liberty

    Nov. 3 at 6:29 a.m.

    Congress' recent vote to finally include sexual orientation in hate crimes legislation has caused near hysterics in some religious communities. Someone needs to remind these pious folks that in America, religious freedom is indeed a sacred, secure right. They remain free to demonize the immoral or ungodly, even as those lost souls are free to carry on their lives in peace as they see fit.

  • Jonah Goldberg: NEA still paying to play

    By Jonah Goldberg, Tribune Media Services | Nov. 1 at 11:02 p.m.

    It seems Rocco Landesman, the head of the National Endowment for the Arts, didn't get the memo, literally.

  • LEONARD PITTS: On black beauty and 'good hair'

    Nov. 2 at 6:22 a.m.

    An open letter to African-American women: It's about the need to be beautiful, I know.

  • Mike Hendricks: Roeder not another John Brown, David

    Nov. 1 at 12:52 a.m.

    Little David slew the mighty Goliath and held aloft the Philistine's severed head.

  • Kathleen Parker: Obama excluding women?

    Nov. 1 at 12:52 a.m.

    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.

  • Why I went to D.C. to support health reform

    By Robyn Liu | Nov. 1 at 12:03 a.m.

    About 150 doctors from all 50 states went to Washington, D.C., on Oct. 5 and were addressed by President Obama in the Rose Garden. Maybe you saw it and wondered who went to represent Kansas. Well, that was me. I went as a member of the group Doctors for America.

  • Troop levels in Afghanistan are the easy part

    By Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times | Oct. 31 at 12:03 a.m.

    President Obama's in-house debate on troop levels in Afghanistan isn't over yet, but it's a safe bet what he'll do: Split the difference. Obama's military commander, Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal, requested between 10,000 and 40,000 additional troops. The president appears headed toward a number in the middle.

  • Jonah Goldberg: Save planet without having to give up dogs

    Oct. 30 at 6:37 a.m.

    The government cannot have my dog. Don't tell that to the authors of the new book "Time to Eat the Dog?: The Real Guide to Sustainable Living." They calculate that dog owning is much worse than SUV driving for the planet.

  • Hate crimes law not enough

    By Andrew Kessinger, Washington Post | Oct. 30 at 1:08 a.m.

    When President Obama signed the Hate Crimes Prevention Act into law Wednesday, human rights advocates across the country won a decent, but insufficient, victory.

  • Unemployed? Need health care? Join military

    By Kevin Horrigan, St. Louis Post-Dispatch | Oct. 29 at 1:09 a.m.

    Times being what they are, I have decided to become a conservative commentator.

  • U.S. has promises to keep in Afghanistan

    By Mary Sanchez, Kansas City Star | Oct. 29 at 1:09 a.m.

    In the media and in conversations anywhere people gather, all sorts of compelling arguments are being made against the United States deepening its military commitment in Afghanistan. But somehow they're not quite compelling enough.

  • Cal Thomas: White House trying to 'jam' Fox News' signal

    Oct. 28 at 6:47 a.m.

    During the Cold War, the Voice of America and Radio Free Europe were among the broadcast entities that effectively penetrated the Iron Curtain to deliver truth to the "captive nations" that were being fed a steady dose of propaganda by their communist rulers. Those dictators did everything they could to "jam" the signals so that their people would only hear what their unelected overseers wanted them to hear.

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