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LOCAL COLUMNS

With teachers, we must appreciate everyday greatness

MARY BELL | 5/6

Teachers and education support professionals help put children in touch with their potential and introduce them to some of their possibilities. And because great schools benefit everyone, helping students prepare for their futures helps all of us live in better communities and enjoy better lives.

CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER

It's time for Hillary to negotiate terms of surrender

CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER | 5/9

Going left proved disastrous for Hillary Clinton. It abolished all significant policy differences between her and Barack Obama, the National Journal’s 2007 most liberal senator.

JOEL MCNALLY

The bad dream ticket: Obama would be foolish to pick Clinton

JOEL MCNALLY | 5/12

Now that a bright, young newcomer has come out of nowhere to upset the Democrats’ only successful political brand in the past quarter-century, the last thing Obama needs is to be weighed down by the negatives of the past.

PETER BROWN

Bush-haters won’t stop McCain

PETER A. BROWN | 3/31

The theory pushed hard by Democrats and accepted to some degree by Republicans is that the public is so angry with Bush that large numbers of voters will refuse to vote for a fellow Republican. The reality is a bit more complicated and perhaps not quite as ominous for de facto GOP nominee John McCain as many might think.

RICK HOROWITZ

They is jes’ folks like us

RICK HOROWITZ | 5/7

Lately Maw Clinton's been spendin’ all her time runnin’ back and forth from North Carolina over to Indiana and back again, and now that she’s done with them, it’s off to West Virginia and Kentucky where she’ll be workin’ as hard as ever, meetin’ folks and bein’ regular, not like them elites you see with them other campaigns.

INSIDE THE FIRST AMENDMENT

Debate over separation of mosque and state sparks death threats

CHARLES C. HAYNES | 5/10

Allegations of school-sponsored prayer don’t ordinarily provoke threats of violence. But Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy in Inver Grove Heights, Minn., is no ordinary public school.

DAVID BRODER

For Obama, time spent fighting Clinton drains focus from McCain

DAVID BRODER | 5/11

History says that the earlier a candidate nails down his nomination, the better his chances of winning. I saw that vividly demonstrated in 1968.

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ELLEN GOODMAN

Obama might reach women through his late mother

ELLEN GOODMAN | 5/8

Barack Obama will soon have to reach out to Hillary’s supporters, especially to women of a certain age who attached their hopes to having a woman in the White House. Obama has not yet had a “gender conversation” with those women. What better link does he have than his mother, Stanley Ann Dunham?

KATHLEEN PARKER

Send money in lieu of flowers to veterans’ moms

KATHLEEN PARKER | 5/9

A mom who doesn’t receive a card or flowers for Mother's Day is likely to feel let down. Then there are other mothers for whom flowers are of little concern, who gather on Web sites to exchange stories and sympathy for the sons and daughters lost to or damaged by war.

PRO-CON

Pro: Carter’s kow-towing to terrorists places another roadblock in path to peace

LAWRENCE J. HAAS | 5/10

Hamas’ commitment to Israel’s demise, its tactics, and the support it receives from Iran make clear why Jimmy Carter’s recent trip to the Middle East set back peace efforts.

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