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I laughed at the Friday article "Immigration Debate raises...
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I appreciated the editorial cartoon in Wednesday's paper depicting a mail carrier carrying a heavy load marked "Pension Pre-funding...
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The article in the Friday Herald, "Groups fight fish...
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I will be voting no on the Mountlake Terrace Civic Center proposal again.City officials failed to purchase the...
View ArticleBeatles were really lizards
Let's start a conspiracy theory that conspiracy theorists are plotting to take over the world. That's the lamestream media for you,...
View ArticleFeel-good bills that turn into do-nothing laws
Readers share their ideas. Since the massacre in December in Newtown, Conn., which left 20 children and six elementary-school staff...
View ArticleSwashbuckler on the grandest stage
WASHINGTON -- When I met Margaret Thatcher she was out of office, watching with more than a touch of amusement as her successor, John...
View ArticleA credit freeze is a very useful tool
I was surprised that in the article concerning ID theft ("
View ArticleEmergencies need immediate help
I urge voters in Hospital District 1 to support the Valley General Hospital levy, checking yes on the ballots they will receive...
View ArticleYou're a liberal redneck when...
I was shocked on Sunday to find one of the most intolerant columns I have ever read in The Herald. I refer to Sid Schwab's "
View ArticleEcology's politics of health
Washington's Department of Ecology braids politics and science. It's a two-master scenario that doesn't always serve the public interest,...
View ArticleThatcher, a profile in moderation
In honoring Margaret Thatcher, some of her greatest fans complain, "They don't make conservatives like that any more." But...
View ArticleProtest motto: soup's on!
WASHINGTON -- When authorities got wind of a demonstration planned for Monday outside the Food and Drug Administration's offices in...
View ArticleFrom the AP Stylebook: How to obscure
he Associated Press announced last week that it no longer sanctions the term "illegal immigrant" in its stylebook. Executive Editor...
View ArticleThe revolution of Margaret Thatcher
WASHINGTON -- People talk about transformational politicians. But watching Margaret Thatcher take down the British class system was an...
View ArticleGuns but no roses
WASHINGTON -- The biggest obstacle to the Obama administration's push for tighter gun control may be its own best argument: Newtown.
View ArticleOur right to life is paramount
The gun death toll since Sandy Hook exceeds 3,000, the NRA continues to lobby, and Senate Republicans plan to block any vote on gun...
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