Commentary

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<p>As a result of a legal settlement at a California high school, school administrators are on notice to stop censoring student speech.</p>

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<p>In a recent article in , <em>(December 30, 2009)</em>, Mr. Raoul Lowery Contreras takes President Obama to task for a number of political mistakes. A close look at some of charges made by Mr. Contreras reveals that most, if not all, of the charges are without merit.</p>

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<p>Last year, in our tough economy, many of us asked for necessities and basics as holiday gifts. Among the gifts that would mean the most to families is the passage of the Healthy Families Act, introduced by the late Senator Edward Kennedy, along with Representative Rosa De-Lauro, in the 111th Congress this past May.</p>

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<p>As the father of Marine Lance Cpl. Jesus Alberto Suarez del Solar, who died on March 27, 2003, during the invasion of Iraq, I consider it my moral duty to share my thoughts with you today.</p>
<p>As you surely know, 929 brave young Americans have died so far in Afghanistan, as well as thousands of innocent Afghan civilians.</p>
<p>In Iraq, 4,367 of our sons and daughters have died together with tens of thousands of innocent Iraqis.</p>

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<p>Only those intelligent people blinded by liberal ideology or partisanship or lack of political sophistication expected President Obama to really shine in foreign policy. He did, after all, get a majority of the vote of people with high school or less than McCain did.</p>
<p>The rest of us knew that he had absolutely no background in foreign relations and that the nations most important to the USA were complete strangers to this man as were the people of those countries, Canada and Mexico.</p>