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|  The real meaning of the Information Age seems to lie in the speed with which the entire world can laugh at mistakes made in public.
I didn’t watch the Miss Universe USA pageant last weekend, but I had barely started my Monday when the answer Marissa Powell, Miss Utah, gave to a question about
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| |  P.T. Barnum started it. He knew a sucker was born every minute, but he had no idea how many suckers could be lured by a parade of pretty girls. Or maybe he did have an idea, and he was just born a bit too soon. Barnum’s first beauty pageant in 1854 didn’t get too
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|  If you thought the Cold War was over, think again. It appears to be rearing its ugly head again in Syria.
The European Union decided to lift its embargo on sending weapons to the rebels fighting the regime of Bashar al Assad. This came not long after the United
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| |  “Under our present laws, the only way that such holocausts can be prevented is to anticipate them through the medium of espionage, to be followed by prompt and drastic police action...” The annual report of the New York City Police Department, dated 1920, makes for interesting reading in light of Edward J. Snowden’s decision to betray his
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| |  The government has records of our phone calls?
Please tell me you’re not surprised.
I’ll never forget one election night, in the early 2000s, when Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch cornered me at Republican campaign headquarters and gave me a stern lecture about my opposition to parts of the Patriot Act.
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|  I doubt many parents out there haven’t been beaten with a plastic baseball bat a time or two, usually after misjudging the age appropriateness of organized sports in the back yard.
Not only do they live through these encounters, they quickly learn that
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|  Justice Antonin Scalia In the old days — really old days before fingerprints could easily be captured — it was common for police to require suspects to give up their shoes. These were then used to measure whether they fit the footprints found at a
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|  Apparently, the latest sobering report from the Social Security and Medicare trustees can be viewed more ways than one.
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|  Some speeches are worth revisiting from time to time, just to see if the principles they espouse still hold true.
Twenty-five years ago this week, President Ronald Reagan, in a friendly and inviting way, lectured
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| |  When it comes to live world news, Al Jazeera is about all you can get these days without cable. Cable TV companies like to talk about how aggressive market forces are leading to big changes in the way
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