THE TRIBUNE'S VIEW
The empty tub
By HENRY J. WATERS III, Publisher, Columbia Daily Tribune
In his State of the Union message, President George W. Bush reiterated alternative-energy promises that sounded good but represented nothing new and were far from any sort of bold promise of change.

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Soybean association is in ‘Wonderland’
By KEN MIDKIFF
In "Alice in Wonderland," Lewis Carroll’s Alice stated "curiouser and curiouser" when she forgot how to speak in her native tongue.

Appearance of corruption is the least of Republicans’ worries
By MONA CHAREN
Republicans should not sleep well at night. The party has achieved comfortable majority status just when it seems to have lost its animating vision. And when parties exist merely to maintain themselves in power, corruption soon follows.

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