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CAMPOS: Dogmatic atheism

In my younger and more vulnerable years I once got into a debate with a fundamentalist Christian about the morality of capital punishment. Her view was that the Bible sanctioned the death penalty, and as far as she was concerned that was the end of the matter.

WILL: Obama's fiscal fairy tale

Barack Obama has made his economic thinking excruciatingly clear, so it also is clear that his running mate should be Rumpelstiltskin. He spun straw into gold, a skill an Obama administration will need in order to fulfill its fairy-tale promises.
KOPEL: In its obsession with Polis, Times misses other news

The New York Times report of the results of Colorado's congressional primaries (Aug. 13) revealed more about the cultural prism of Manhattan than about Colorado politics. The article's headline was "Gay Candidate Wins a Colorado Primary." Good news for cloistered Manhattanites who expected that Coloradans' reaction to a gay man would be to stone him to death. But in the battle for the 2nd Congressional District nomination, Jared Polis' sexual orientation was of little more significance than the

CARROLL: Questions for Barack Obama

As Barack Obama gears up for his arrival in Denver next week, his commercials are blanketing the state's airwaves as if it were October, his lead over John McCain has nearly vanished in national polls, and he faces an electorate with nagging doubts about his qualifications for the presidency - and his beliefs.

ROSEN: Fairness Doctrine unrealistic

'47% Favor Government Mandated Political Balance on Radio, TV," proclaimed the headline on the Web site of Rasmussen Reports. This was the result of a national poll of 1,000 likely voters conducted by Rasmussen on Aug. 13. The actual question read: "Should the government require all radio and television stations to offer equal amounts of conservative and liberal political commentary?"

SAMUELSON: The real China threat

Obsessed with rankings, Americans are bound to see the Beijing Olympics as a metaphor for a larger and more troubling question. Will China overtake the United States as the world’s biggest economy? ... But this is the wrong worry.
HART: The kids we wanted and the ones we got

Oh, how I remember all those wonderful children I was going to have.
BLAKE: Business-labor issues vex

You can't blame Gov. Bill Ritter and Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper if they wished that next week's Democratic circus would stick around for a month or more, distracting the public.

Ellen GOODMAN: Equal Rites 2008

Once more we prepare to honor our foremothers by celebrating the anniversary of the passage of women’s suffrage. Each year, in advance of Aug. 26, our one-woman committee gathers to hand out the Equal Rites Awards to those stalwats who have done the most in the past year to set back the cause of women.
CAMPOS: Distorted body images

Among other things, the Olympics showcase the amazing diversity of human bodies that lend themselves to athletic excellence. From the 7 foot-5-inch basketball player Yao Ming, to the 4-foot-6-inch gymnast Deng Linlin; from the birdlike frames of the long-distance runners, to the enormous dynamic bulk of the hammer throwers, the Olympics feature athletes who come in a dizzying array of shapes and sizes.

THOMASSON: Anthrax case toxic

The FBI’s mishandling of the anthrax case and its rush to claim it solved not only have made it doubtful the truth of the matter ever will come out, but it has turned this nightmare into a conspiracy freak’s dream.
WILL: Russia puts McCain in play

Last August, John McCain’s campaign was a guttering candle, out of money but flush with half-baked ideas that were unlikely to be improved by further baking. Anyway, to have many ideas is to have too many for a campaign’s concluding sprint, and McCain’s revival has not been robust enough to bring him even with Barack Obama. Now McCain’s rejuvenated hopes rest on his ability to recast this election, focusing it on who should lead America in a world suddenly darkened by Russia’s war of European conquest.
SALZMAN: TV stations should share critical video

"It sounds like a baseball hitting a bat, except that it's Heaney's teeth, breaking on cement."

ROSEN: 'We the people'

'We the people of the United States in Order to form a more perfect Union . . . do ordain and establish this Constitution." When those words, the Preamble to the Constitution, were crafted, the context was to introduce a document prescribing the foundation, organization and general rules of a new system of government based on a bottom-up model of governance.

CARROLL: Udall faces reality

If you want to know why U.S. Rep. Mark Udall switched his stand this week on offshore drilling, direct your attention to a poll that appeared in Wednesday's Wall Street Journal. When unaffiliated voters were asked whether they would be more or less likely to support someone who favored easing restrictions on offshore drilling, 60 percent answered "more likely" while only 28 percent went the other way (the issue apparently didn't matter to some).

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