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  • At U, future teachers may be reeducated

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    Do you believe in the American dream — the idea that in this country, hardworking people of every race, color and creed can get ahead on their own merits? If so, that belief may soon bar you from getting a license to teach in Minnesota public schools — at least [...]
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    Posted: November 21, 2009, 6:49pm EST
    by Katherine

  • The “anointed” will “fix” your health care

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    Recent unemployment figures reveal the daunting dimensions of the job crisis. Unemployment stands at 10.2 percent, and underemployment — those who have given up looking or who have taken part-time jobs — is at a mind-numbing 17.5 percent: almost one in five. In this greatest crisis since the Great Depression, [...]
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    Posted: November 15, 2009, 11:32pm EST
    by Katherine

  • The perilous, slippery slope of gay marriage

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    “How would same-sex marriage hurt your marriage?” Advocates of changing our marriage laws tell us this is an unanswerable question. A typical couple — Mary and John, married for 15 years — may find it tough to answer. That’s because it’s the wrong question. Mary and John won’t stop loving each [...]
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    Posted: November 07, 2009, 7:16pm EST
    by Katherine

  • Flying imams case is settled at our expense

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    The “flying imams” and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) are declaring victory in their legal war against law-enforcement personnel and safety procedures at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. Their “victory” — aided and abetted by a judge arrogantly dismissive of law-enforcement realities — is a major setback for transportation [...]
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    Posted: October 24, 2009, 7:14pm EDT
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  • Can liberation lead to less happiness?

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    “The progress of women over recent decades has been extraordinary,” write researchers at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School in a much-discussed new study. “The gender wage gap has partly closed,” they continue. “[Women’s] educational attainment has risen and is now surpassing that of men; women have gained an unprecedented level [...]
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    Posted: October 03, 2009, 5:28pm EDT
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  • ACORN’s friends in Minnesota

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    Unless you’ve been stuck in the Gobi Desert, you’ve read the headlines about the scandal at ACORN — the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. Earlier this month, ACORN staffers in four states were caught giving not-so-sage advice to two journalists, posing as a pimp and a prostitute, on [...]
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    Posted: September 26, 2009, 5:03pm EDT
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  • Will it be Homer or Captain Underpants?

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    High-school students: Did you stand last week with Homer on the walls of ancient Troy, watching awestruck as Achilles’ pride brought a vast army to the edge of disaster? Have you walked the mean streets of Victorian London with Oliver Twist? Before you graduate, will you and Mark Twain navigate [...]
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    Posted: September 20, 2009, 11:31pm EDT
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  • The media misses “dear leader’s” real lesson plan

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    The mainstream media seem dumbfounded that any thinking person could object to President Obama’s speech to schoolchildren on Sept. 8. The president simply told kids to work hard and stay in school, right? The controversy is just more proof, the media seem to have concluded, that Obama’s critics are kooks and [...]
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    Posted: September 12, 2009, 10:59pm EDT
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  • The real story of our newly canonized political saint

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    Since the death of Sen. Edward Kennedy, we’ve witnessed his canonization as a kind of political saint. Media tributes have taken Kennedy’s selfless defense of the poor and downtrodden as a matter of course — and as iconic for our age. The New York Times’ worshipful praise was typical. Kennedy, the [...]
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    Posted: September 06, 2009, 11:00pm EDT
    by Katherine

  • A counter to the empty lure of college promiscuity

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    Thousands of young Minnesotans will get their first taste of college life this week. Most can’t wait to forge new friendships — in particular, with members of the opposite sex. Cassy Hough remembers the sense of excitement well. When she arrived as a freshman at Princeton University in 2003 from Stow, [...]
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    Posted: August 29, 2009, 5:25pm EDT
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  • When the Left doesn’t like it loud

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    Protesters and citizens asking angry questions have flooded the “town halls” where congressional representatives have tried to sell President Obama’s health care reform agenda to the American people. The protesters have stolen the show, with 69 percent of Americans telling pollsters they are following the story closely. Town-hall-goers — some raucous [...]
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    Posted: August 22, 2009, 5:23pm EDT
    by Katherine

  • Woodstock’s legacy is complicated

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    Woodstock is a sacred event in the baby boomers’ legend. Leading up to the music festival’s 40th anniversary this weekend, we’ve been inundated with memories of what many consider a defining cultural moment — when 400,000 young people gathered near Bethel, N.Y., in 1969 for three days of “peace, love [...]
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    Posted: August 15, 2009, 10:14pm EDT
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  • Human indignity on display at the Mall of America

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    If you’re heading to the Mall of America this weekend, you’ll find something new to gawk at, along with the lacy lingerie at Victoria’s Secret and the sea horses at Underwater Adventures. It’s “Bodies … the Exhibition,” a show that features human cadavers. The corpses have been “plastinated” — their fluids [...]
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    Posted: August 08, 2009, 10:37pm EDT
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  • Should it be life imprisonment or a firing squad for the rich?

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    “The rich” are the perennial American whipping boys—targets for all our pent-up economic frustration and envy. These are at a high pitch today, so the rich often find themselves compared to the devil, or worse. The rich – so the rhetoric goes — are “speculators” whose lust for short-term profits has [...]
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    Posted: August 05, 2009, 8:28am EDT
    by Katherine

  • Don’t accept racial profiling as a simple fact

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    In recent days, we’ve heard endless debate about Henry Louis Gates — a black Harvard professor who tried to break into his home in Cambridge, Mass., after being locked out. Police arrested him for disorderly conduct when he refused to show ID and harangued an officer called to investigate a [...]
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    Posted: August 02, 2009, 11:33am EDT
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  • Two years after the I-35W bridge collapse

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    This Saturday, August 1, marks the two-year anniversary of the day the I-35W bridge tumbled into the Mississippi River. It was, perhaps, the only day in history when Minnesota made headlines around the world. This year’s anniversary is likely to pass with much less fanfare than last year’s. On August 1, [...]
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    Posted: July 30, 2009, 6:56am EDT
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  • The unhappy researchers who changed sex

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    A visitor to America in 2009 might conclude that the right to pursue sexual pleasure is carved in our Constitution. From the onset of puberty until our last breath, we are encouraged to seek and claim the sexual mountaintops. The cultural markers of our national preoccupation are everywhere — from [...]
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    Posted: July 25, 2009, 6:33pm EDT
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  • If Obama/Pelosi health care sinks, what comes next?

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    Democrats and Republicans alike are abandoning ship as the Obama/Pelosi health care vessel lists hard left and takes on water. Obama may yet work wonders with a presidential “shock and awe” offensive, but his schtick is wearing thin. Democrats seem eager to bolt for August’s congressional recess without passing anything close [...]
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    Posted: July 23, 2009, 7:16am EDT
    by Katherine

  • Lawsuit could tear down the TIZA curtain

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    The ACLU of Minnesota made headlines in January when it sued Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy (TiZA), a public K-8 charter school in Inver Grove Heights. The suit — which followed media reports of organized prayers and a pervasive religious environment at TiZA — alleged that the school is violating constitutional [...]
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    Posted: July 19, 2009, 12:52am EDT
    by Katherine

  • Michael Jackson finally has another greatest hit: his death

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    Death has an uncanny ability to elevate deceased public figures. Take former President Ronald Reagan. Even at the peak of his powers, Reagan was excoriated by the press and opposition politicians. But at his death in 2004, he was instantly elevated to the first level of presidents. Even political polar opposites [...]
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    Posted: July 16, 2009, 6:50am EDT
    by Katherine

  • Hard to grasp swooning over Tony Kushner

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    If there’s anything we Minnesotans don’t like, it’s bigotry. Want to be shunned by your friends and neighbors? Try engaging in “hate speech'’ — hurling vicious slurs at people based on race, religion and the like.    Odd, then, that we’ve just had one of the nation’s foremost peddlers of such vitriol' [...]
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    Posted: July 11, 2009, 8:06pm EDT
    by Katherine

  • Al Franken kicks-off his new “mainstreaming” campaign

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    Sure enough: The weekend after finally winning his lawyer-infested Senate brawl, there was Al Franken snuggling and kissing a baby on the front page of Sunday’s Star Tribune. Instead of hanging out with entertainment industry types or vacationing with rich friends, Franken was in hot pursuit of blue collar “atta-boys!” [...]
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    Posted: July 07, 2009, 8:04am EDT
    by Katherine

  • What’s a “father” in 2009?

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    Today, many dads will get a Hallmark card and a hug from their kids. But in 2009, we have to ask: Does the word “father” still retain any special meaning? The answer isn’t clear. We often hear that “family” has become a fungible term, which can embrace almost any combination of [...]
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    Posted: June 21, 2009, 12:20pm EDT
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  • How to save 40 percent on health care without a trillion-dollar government program?

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    President Obama and his congressional allies have to find a cool trillion dollars for their national health care plan, according to the Washington Post. The Congressional Budget Office confirmed this price tag Monday, but cautioned that the enormous sum would still insure less than half of those currently uninsured. There’s little [...]
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    Posted: June 17, 2009, 8:18am EDT
    by Katherine

  • For veterans, Guantanamo was no game

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    In 2006, Pete Hegseth was serving in Samarra, Iraq, with the 101st Airborne when Al-Qaida-linked terrorists blew up the Golden Mosque, launching a deadly civil war. Hegseth, 29, witnessed countless other terrorist-perpetrated horrors during his tour in Iraq. He saw civilians gunned down in cold blood, and a mother and [...]
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    Posted: June 13, 2009, 6:06pm EDT
    by Katherine

  • Will magic words revive Obama’s failed stimulus?

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    President Obama’s $787 billion stimulus is now a certified failure. No need to be a Rush Limbaugh lemming to reach that conclusion. Listen to Obama’s own economic gurus, as reported in the Star Tribune: On Jan. 9, two of the president’s top economic advisers predicted that with the stimulus plan, the unemployment [...]
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    Posted: June 10, 2009, 8:33am EDT
    by Katherine

  • Hostility to religion bodes ill for society

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    We’re increasingly uncomfortable with religion these days. As a society, we tolerate pastors, priests, rabbis and other religious folks, so long as they confine their message to a vanilla “God is love” theme and bless babies, brides and caskets. But when religious leaders speak out on the issues of the day — [...]
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    Posted: June 06, 2009, 7:11pm EDT
    by Katherine

  • When will it be Obama’s economy?

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    The economy is still in steep decline – as if you didn’t know.  Recent data show 44 states recording job losses and state unemployment claims at the highest level ever recorded, according to the Associated Press.  The Federal Reserve now predicts unemployment will remain high until “well into 2011.” Entire [...]
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    Posted: June 03, 2009, 7:02am EDT
    by Katherine

  • Defenders of marriage face an external foe

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    In 2006, State Sen. Mady Reiter — a two-term Republican from Shoreview — was defeated by DFLer Sandy Rummel in a tight race. Was it just another case of a Republican losing in a down year for the GOP? Perhaps. But if Senate District 53 voters had read through the list [...]
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    Posted: May 30, 2009, 5:03pm EDT
    by Katherine

  • The greens meet “The Goodes”

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    We Americans excel at smug, self-satisfied moral preening. We make sure our neighbors know that we “care” about the planet and impoverished Third World people, as well as everything else laid down as fashionable opinion by National Public Radio and “socially conscious” rock stars.  Need an antidote? Meet “The Goodes,” ABC’s new [...]
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    Posted: May 29, 2009, 7:10am EDT
    by Katherine

  • The Supreme Court nominee who thinks she’s better than a “white male”

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    Yesterday, President Barack Obama nominated Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the United States Supreme Court. With this act, he served notice that – as far as he’s concerned — Martin Luther King, Jr.’s dream of a colorblind society will remain just a dream. No one should be surprised that Obama chose a [...]
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    Posted: May 27, 2009, 7:17am EDT
    by Katherine

  • The costs of giving in to government

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    On Memorial Day, we honor our nation’s warriors and their courageous defense of freedom. Their sacrifice is the highest and best, but it comes with an important caveat. Our soldiers defend freedom outside our borders, but it is the rest of us who must constantly strive to build and maintain it [...]
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    Posted: May 23, 2009, 8:04pm EDT
    by Katherine

  • Katherine to return

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    Join the conversation on Think Again on May 24, when my new op-ed column debuts. [...]
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    Posted: May 22, 2009, 9:38am EDT
    by Katherine

  • Farewell, readers, to a memorable journey

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    This is my last metro-state column for the Star Tribune. It’s the end of a journey I’ll remember always. I’ve met people in whom the human spirit burns bright. One was a 23-year-old Korean pianist who, through relentless practice, dazzles audiences around the world. Her dancing hands play intricate Chopin impromptus, [...]
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    Posted: January 12, 2009, 8:23am EST
    by Katherine

  • If money can’t buy happiness, why are we still chasing it?

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    What better subject for a Friday than happiness and how to find it? Ask almost any group of people whether earning more money would make them happier, and you’ll probably get a decided “no.” But when the conversation ends, they’ll likely be off scrambling to get more of it. Despite what [...]
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    Posted: January 09, 2009, 8:32am EST
    by Katherine

  • New frontiers in victimhood: “Fat discrimination”

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    Who will be next to join America’s expanding catalogue of victimhood? By my calculation, the only remaining candidates for the “oppressed class club” are white, able-bodied, heterosexual Christian males — ages 21 to 40 — who are mentally stable and not addicted to anything. But not to worry. Last Sunday, I found [...]
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    Posted: January 08, 2009, 9:31am EST
    by Katherine

  • Who “cares” more: liberals or conservatives?

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    Thanks for your ideas about the blog’s future, Think Again readers. You’ve made some intriguing suggestions, and I’ll be mulling them over in the next few days.  Who’s more generous: liberals or conservatives? A new book, chockfull of statistical data, provides the answer. It will surprise many. The book is Who Really Cares: [...]
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    Posted: January 07, 2009, 9:08am EST
    by Katherine

  • Is the West best?

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    A question for Think Again readers: As you comment on the following post, please add your thoughts about the potential survival of the blog after my role as a metro columnist ceases. Would it make sense to continue Think Again if I do just one or two posts a week? [...]
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    Posted: January 06, 2009, 9:53am EST
    by Katherine

  • The sad faces of “Cosmo”

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    As I wrote on Friday, I’m contemplating how we can keep Think Again flourishing, and I’ll be soliciting your thoughts about that this week. Here’s an example from the past of how reader comments can spark discussion: Yesterday I raised a question: Is sex merely about self-expression and pleasure, or does it [...]
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    Posted: January 05, 2009, 8:43am EST
    by Katherine

  • The “new me” debuts in Kurdistan

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    Perhaps the reason my metro column has been terminated is that I’ve tried too hard to “get with” the popular culture. Here’s just one failed attempt from last year: I take critical comments about my Star Tribune photo very seriously. That grim Victorian look, that Phyllis Schlafly-like persona, and (of course) [...]
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    Posted: December 31, 2008, 9:11am EST
    by Katherine
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