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• Flagging shooter's mental health history could have saved lives

  - 2008-02-28

  Ever since the shootings at Northern Illinois University, many people are asking why it happened. I don't think there is a good answer to that question. The shooter, Steven Kazmierczak, was disturbed and, in part, reacting because he had stopped taking his prescription medicine ("Before tragedy struck at NIU, signs...

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• Not all pet owners are responsible, so law must intervene

  - 2007-07-03

  Every year, millions of homeless cats and dogs die in shelters across the country. That is why USA TODAY's editorial "Better ways to save pets" was so disappointing (Our view, Unwanted animals debate, Wednesday). The Humane Society of the United States strongly supports the California Healthy...

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• Clinton: Treatment of troops 'outrageous'

  - 2007-04-12

  FORT DRUM, N.Y. -- One by one, their eyes on Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, more than 40 soldiers recited a somber roll call: name, rank, company and where in Iraq or Afghanistan they had been wounded. Later, after hearing their tales of chaos, confusion and shabby...

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• VIP ward at Walter Reed gets scrutiny

  - 2007-03-16

  Disclosures of substandard housing for troops treated at Walter Reed Army Medical Center are prompting Congress to investigate whether the Army is running a plush ward at the complex for VIPs at the expense of ordinary war casualties. House investigators are asking "if the allocations of...

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• Obama touts non-political resume

  - 2007-02-09

  CHICAGO -- Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, who will announce Saturday that he's running for the Democratic presidential nomination, says the brevity of his political resume is his "greatest strength." His work as a community organizer, civil rights attorney, constitutional law professor and state legislator "provides me...

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• Focus on health care

  - 2007-01-30

  The challenge of ensuring the financial security of America's seniors is a complex problem that deserves careful analysis. USA TODAY's recent article, "Retirees up against debt," may have left readers with the impression that credit cards are the reason many seniors are facing economic hardship, while overlooking the rising cost...

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• Returning rookies reflect on lessons learned

  - 2006-11-27

  WASHINGTON -- On the day nearly two years ago when they were sworn into office, liberal Democrat Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida and conservative Republican Patrick McHenry from North Carolina found themselves symbols of Congress' diversity and its potential for discord. "We were portrayed as the yin and the yang...

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• Congress claims an M.D.

  - 2006-11-08

  The U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments today on whether to uphold Congress' 2003 ban on what doctors call "intact dilation and evacuation" and what critics call "partial-birth abortions." By whatever name, the procedure is awful to contemplate. But to let the ban stand, the court would have to pretend that...

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• Urge to go private picks up steam

  - 2006-08-25

  Even big companies are starting to ask for privacy. Many smaller businesses have already gone private, figuring being public wasn't worth it. Now some giant public companies hope escaping Wall Street's scrutiny will give them the freedom to fix themselves. Ford, which USA TODAY reported is considering going private, is...

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• Let's go back to the moon and beyond

  - 2006-07-11

  I wonder whether USA TODAY understands that $104 billion spent over a number of years to return humans to the moon is a mere drop in the bucket compared with the billions of dollars we've spent on President Lyndon Johnson's "War on Poverty" during the past 40 years ("Questions orbit...

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