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A cynical view of Syria and climate change
TOM BURGUM Contributing Columnist burgum@lbknews.com President Obama has agreed to begin discussion at the United Nations to, according to the White House, “explore seriously the viability” of the...
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Syria — Syriously
LARRY GROSSMAN Guest Columnist editorial@lbknews.com Ridding Syria of chemical weapons can be a notable achievement and could serve as a deterrent for other regime challenged dictators from resorting...
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Gone with the wind
TOM BURGUM Contributing Columnist burgum@lbknews.com All the kurfuffle about Syria and the debt ceiling negotiations obscured a very important nomination to head the little-known U.S. Federal Energy...
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Harmless as an enemy: treacherous as a friend
TOM BURGUM Contributing Columnist burgum@lbknews.com As our Syrian charade continues, Assad is now the anointed and agreed to ruler of Syria. It is with he whom we now negotiate while he continues to...
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Israel, again
PETER O’CONNOR Contributing Columnist oconnor@lbknews.com In the early days of this summer I wrote a piece for these pages suggesting that our friend, The State of Israel, might be letting its guard...
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The coalition that hates each other
TOM BURGUM Staff Columnist burgum@lbknews.com The Kingston Trio, one of the folk groups popular in the late 1950s, recorded a song called the Merry Minuet. With just a bit of paraphrasing it goes a...
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Who trusts the government anymore?
TOM BURGUM Staff Columnist burgum@lbknews.com There was a famous exchange in the British Parliament in the last two years of Queen Victoria’s reign. During a debate on Irish policy, an English member...
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Harmless as an enemy and treacherous as a friend – 3rd edition
TOM BURGUM Staff Columnist burgum@lbknews.com This is my third column in which I have turned to Bernard Lewis, America’s Mideast expert, for a title. The first was January 2006, the second in August...
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Why give thanks?
RICHARD HERSHATTER Staff Columnist Hershatter@lbknews.com When turkey assumes the ascendant, Fish and piglets have nothing to fear. We give thanks for the bounties of nature And the freedoms we all...
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Palestine – Yet some more
PETER O’CONNOR Staff Columnist oconnor@lbknews.com We explored, on October 14th, a wall Street Journal piece on the subject of the current non-solution to the ongoing situation in Palestine. I thought...
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