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Team effort targeting concussions

Heightened awareness of sports-related concussions and a growing concern of the long-term effects of the injury have recently come to the forefront. This injury is seen at all levels of participation from youth leagues to high schools to colleges and in the professional ranks.

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    Parties needs to recognize reality

    In my formative years, I was a regular reader of the comic strip “Bloom County,” which spawned Opus the Penguin, a hapless microcosm of the American middle class.

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    Time for some 'Common Sense'

    Jan. 10 may seem like an ordinary winter day, but that wasn't the case in 1776. For it was on that very day that a young Quaker, having only set foot in this New World from his home in England 13 months before, printed a pamphlet that immediately became the seminal publication of the century, our...

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    Commentary: It's time to move past Obama's skin color

    Barack Hussein Obama is president of the United States of America. As such, he is due the respect that the highest office of the land commands.

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    Commentary: Reagan helped set precedent for speaking to America's schoolkids

    President Ronald Reagan, back in 1986, gave a speech was intended as a commencement address of sorts for graduating seniors across the country. It was broadcast in schools nationwide on TV and radio. You might have noticed that in the 23 years since that speech, the planet has not cracked in two...

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    Commentary: Boycotting Obama's message teaches a bad lesson

    It used to be that Americans would crowd around their radios and TVs to hear "their" president. It wasn't so long ago that the first President Bush or President Ronald Reagan addressed American school kids. Even if you didn't vote for the man — or you disagree with his policies — he...

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    Commentary: Teaching fear is the wrong lesson for schoolchildren

    President Barack Obama's plan to give a televised speech on education to schoolchildren has Obama haters railing about a sinister plot to indoctrinate impressionable minds with his "leftist-socialist ideology." This is simply irresponsible fear-mongering.

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    Listening to Afghans’ battle plan

    MAIDAN SHAHR, Afghanistan — Can Afghanistan make progress against its Taliban insurgency if neighboring Pakistan fails to curb its own increasingly powerful jihadis?

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    Six lessons for President Obama

    While the presidents of Pakistan and Afghanistan were in Washington last week telling President Barack Obama what he wanted to hear, things back home were busy going from bad to worse.

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    Falling wages reflect economy

    Wages are falling all across America.

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    The situation in Pakistan

    ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistan is not going to fall to the Taliban tomorrow. But, after several days in this country, I can envision a scenario in which militant Islamists keep expanding their sway over rural areas and destabilize cities.

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