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Handelsman Cartoon: Boy Scout Gay Ban

There it was, that majestic-looking space shuttle on its launchpad.

One person's agitator is another's peaceful protester.

A fellow diner asked whether I might be Michael Dobie.

If anti-vaxxers succeed, South Carolina's story could easily become Long Island's.

Suffolk PBA president, others to tout statewide 'public safety alliance.'

We must allow libraries to continue to grow, not shrink.

We tend not to see some problems unless we're face-to-face with them.

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A batch of new laws will make it harder to vote.

The president has threatened to veto any health care deal that materializes.

What affected me most was realizing how young many of the victims were.

The public safety crisis there, fueled by Washington, reaches a national inflection point.

All this intergenerational resentment is not so much unjustified as misdirected.

America was at its best whenever it was open to the world and engaged with it.

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