Tuesday, August 30, 2011

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Planet of the godly
Planet of the godly

Forget charisma, charm and foreign-policy experience.The race of the moment concerns which candidate is the truest believer.

Byrne: The church of climate change

Today I am writing about religion. Specifically, about those who worship in the Church of the Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming. More specifically, about those who, as a matter of faith, believe that the science of climate change is settled.
Bye bye, paper savings bonds

In our family, a U.S. savings bond seemed to rank not far below a Nobel Prize as a mark of achievement. It was what you got from aunts and uncles for graduating from grade school, being bar mitzvahed, getting married or having a baby. My parents did the same for nephews and nieces. It must have been much the same in lots of families. During World War II, 85 million Americans, a little over half the population, owned what were then called defense savings bonds.
Today's columnists

Grid vs. ward garbage collection: Why are we still debating?

There's nothing new about Mayor Rahm Emanuel's proposal to switch Chicago to a grid system for garbage pickup. It comes up in every discussion about how to cut wasteful spending. It gets shot down every time.
Another victory over al-Qaida

A few months ago, Osama bin Laden and his operations chief, Atiyah Abd al-Rahman, were discussing ideas on how to pursue al-Qaida's war against the United States — notably, an assault on our homeland on the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. It would serve as shocking proof that they still had the capacity to destroy and terrify Americans.

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