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Funny, how when our children were young they always asked why. The Fourth is the Fourth is the Fourth Don't mean to sound like Gertrude Stein with that headline, but in recent weeks I have heard several criticisms of Pahrump's decision not to celebrate the Fourth on the Fourth, and I have mixed feelings about shifting the fireworks away from the actual day. Vacation purists leave those laptops and cell phones behind Many modern vacationers are hybrids, combining the traditional vacation with telecommuting, thanks to the explosion of technology. No longer do we sit by the pool, half comatose in the sun, dreaming about grilled burgers and gooey s'mores that await us at dusk. Letters to the Editor Bush's latest war loss Richard Lugar ran implausibly for the Republican presidential nomination in 1996. He did so implausibly because he is a man of plodding substance who sorely lacks the requisite engaging manner of a Bill Clinton or George W. Bush. Nonetheless, some folks thought they ought to look for skeletons. One step closer to political free speech WASHINGTON -- Let us hope that Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, who is rarely right about First Amendment matters, was right about what he said in April. During oral arguments about a challenge to a use of the McCain-Feingold law to suppress political speech, Breyer, who considers the suppression constitutional, said to the challenger: "If we agree with you in this case, goodbye McCain-Feingold." |
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