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February 13, 2012
Ruth Ann Dailey
Conservatives and their libertarian kin have long contended that Barack Obama's vision for America is fundamentally different from the founders' ideal. With his policy on free birth control -- and even in his shell game of a reversal -- he has proven them right.
February 13, 2012
Ron Cook
The Tampa Bay Lightning played at Consol Energy Center April 27 and beat the Penguins, 1-0, in Game 7 of their first-round Stanley Cup playoff series. I remember walking out of the grand building thinking Penguins defenseman Kris Letang played a lousy game to complete a lousy series in a lousy second half of the NHL season.
February 12, 2012
Brian O'Neill
Our schizoid winter is playing with Pittsburghers' minds. My neighbor Tom had the top down on his '66 Mustang convertible in January, when it felt like May and even bald guys went hatless. He called me to say I should be bold and come out in favor of global warming.
February 12, 2012
Jack Kelly
In 1968, Paul Ehrlich, a butterfly expert at Stanford, published "The Population Bomb." It was filled with apocalyptic predictions: "In the 1970s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now," he wrote.
February 12, 2012
David Shribman
Eisenhower should be memorialized more for what he did than for the roots from which he sprang
February 10, 2012
Tony Norman
When I heard that Karl Rove was offended by a TV ad that ran during the Super Bowl, there was a brief moment of dread when I thought we finally had something in common. I, too, was offended by an ad that ran during the holiest of American high holidays. Alas, Mr. Rove and I were offended by two different ads.
February 9, 2012
Samantha Bennett
We've all heard of, if not ventured across, the soda/pop divide. In Pittsburgh, we're close enough that it's a day trip and doesn't even require the wagon trains of old.
February 8, 2012
Dan Simpson
LA PAZ, Bolivia -- None of my other trips to South America had ever included Bolivia; thus, I have found its complexity somewhat daunting. What brought my wife and me here was my stepson's wife, an internationally acclaimed pianist, Ana-Maria Vera. Ana-Maria is half-Bolivian, half-Dutch and now American. She started her career at age 8 as a child prodigy.
February 8, 2012
Reg Henry
The expression "political football" refers to something kicked around for political effect. But, nowadays, everything is kicked around for political effect. In truth, politics has become football, as the Super Bowl ended up proving. Consider that politics and football are both contact sports. Both involve lots of money. Both encourage blind allegiance to a team.
February 6, 2012
Gene Collier
INDIANAPOLIS -- Two weeks of polishing the NFL legends of Eli Manning and Tom Brady into modern gunslinger monuments might have seemed prudent for an unprecedented collision of Super Bowl MVPs, but the result wasn't terribly artistic until both quarterbacks finally drew their weapons late in a breathtaking Super Bowl.
February 5, 2012
Sally Kalson
The good news is that the Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation has seen the error of its way and reversed its plans to eliminate grants to Planned Parenthood. The bad news is how it lost sight of its mission to begin with.
