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The most important move in golf -- get in the slot

By JIM SUTTIE, Scripps Howard News Service

Look on any professional golf tour. The swings all look different. But any consistent player has one thing in common: They have the ability to get the club in the slot on the downswing.

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A bumper crop of subsidies

An editorial / By Dale McFeatters, Scripps Howard News Service

The farm bill's failings have been well documented. It is hugely expensive; it benefits wealthy farmers and agribusinesses already profiting from record high farm prices. It extends subsidies into new areas -- fruits, vegetables, racehorses, salmon; further distorts markets -- by diverting heavily subsidized sugar into heavily subsidized ethanol production, for example.

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What will America do when Iran has nuclear weapons??

By THOMAS P.M. BARNETT, Scripps Howard News Service

Hillary Clinton promises she'd "obliterate" Iran if it used nuclear weapons against Israel, suggesting that, as president, she'd return the "favor" -- in spades.

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As our colleges go, so go our courts

By STAR PARKER, Scripps Howard News Service

California's Supreme Court has made its contribution to the ongoing debasement of our law, our language, and our culture by legalizing same-sex marriage.

California now has law in the tradition of Groucho Marx who said "Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes."

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Hillary Clinton, president of West Virginia

By MARSHA MERCER, Media General News Service

WASHINGTON -- Let's declare Hillary Rodham Clinton the president of West Virginia and get on with life.

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Once again, Gov. Arnold wimps out

By DAN WALTERS, Sacramento Bee

There is -- or at least should be -- only one standard by which to judge California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's latest budget proposal: Does it stop the "crazy deficit spending" that he pledged to end when he was elected five years ago, or at least make significant progress toward fiscal responsibility?

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Change the Republicans deserve

An editorial / By Dale McFeatters, Scripps Howard News Service

To boost their morale and their poor prospects this fall, congressional Republicans had a little ceremony at the Capitol to roll out a new slogan for the party: "The Change You Deserve."

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Can John McCain save the planet?

By JOE MATHIS and BEN BOYCHUK, Scripps Howard News Service

There has long been a well-understood environmental divide in American politics: Democrats have argued that something needs done about climate change, while Republicans have largely disputed whether a problem really exists and, if so, what government can actually do about.

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Friedman Day shows government just keeps growing

By DEROY MURDOCK, Scripps Howard News Service

On Monday, Americans finally will start working for themselves rather than for their government masters. This milestone arrives two days later than in 2007, clearly proving that the era of big government is back with a vengeance.

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Baby fashion goes too far

By BETSY HART, Scripps Howard News Service

When I was about 10, I received for Christmas a robe and nightgown which I later spied Jan Brady wearing in an episode of "The Brady Bunch." My brush with celebrity fashion sent me to 7th heaven.

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