Published Wednesday, March 19, 2008
THE TRIBUNE'S VIEW
Legislative mischief
By HENRY J. WATERS III, Publisher, Columbia Daily Tribune
This year state lawmakers are off on several tangents better left unexplored. Since Republicans remain in charge of the Missouri General Assembly they deserve most, but not all, of the blame:
JOHN DARKOW CARTOON
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Myth of crime distribution
one of political correctness
Editor, the Tribune: The basic assumption that underpins the "profiling" notion is that crime is evenly distributed by race, religion or place of origin. I have never seen any logical or factual basis to support the notion.
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Cost of Iraq war must be
part of presidential debate
Editor, the Tribune: In a review by Kevin Hall of the recently released book "The Three Trillion Dollar War" by Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz and Harvard Professor Linda Bilmes, it is predicted that the Iraq war eventually will cost between $5 trillion and $7 trillion, in contrast to the Bush administration’s prediction that the war would be self-financing and costs to rebuild the country would be less than $2 billion.
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Being labeled ‘gifted’ is not always a gift to students
Editor, the Tribune: In my youth, I was a "gifted" student. That is, I was in what teachers then called the "accelerated track."
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Obama article focuses on shallow symbolism
Editor, the Tribune: I find the implication that someone who has dedicated his or her life to serving America lacks patriotism utterly unpalatable - especially when such a perspective is based on the wearing, or not, of a lapel pin. Weren’t patriotic citizens of the Soviet Union - especially Communist Party members - expected to wear their Soviet Red Star pins? This soft but increasingly quite real requirement to engage in such shallow symbolism is a disturbing development.
Bailouts ought to humble Wall Street
By E.J. DIONNE JR.
WASHINGTON - Never do I want to hear again from my conservative friends about how brilliant capitalists are, how much they deserve their seven-figure salaries and how government should keep its hands off the private economy.
Booster socialism burdens taxpayers
By GEORGE WILL
PHOENIX - When the upscale stores - Bloomingdale’s, Nordstrom and other magnets for affluent shoppers - open their doors at the CityNorth "urban village" now being built, Phoenix taxpayers will be there, sort of. They are providing a $97.4 million subsidy to the Chicago-based developer of the 144-acre project that will include residential, office and hotel facilities.
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