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The following editorial appeared in the Kansas City Star on Thursday, May 24:

On the first day of the first free presidential election in Egyptian history, 10 young men sat in a circle in a rundown cafe in the working-class quarter of Saida Zainab.

The following editorial appeared in the Baltimore Sun on Wednesday, May 23:

The following editorial appeared in the Los Angeles Times on Thursday, May 24:

The following editorial appeared in the Los Angeles Times on Thursday, May 24:

What spreads almost as fast as necrotizing fasciitis, a.k.a. flesh-eating infection? News stories about it.

The following editorial appeared in the Orlando Sentinel on Wednesday, May 23:

The following editorial appeared in the Los Angeles Times on Wednesday, May 23:

The following editorial appeared in the Los Angeles Times on Wednesday, May 23:

The following editorial appeared in the Baltimore Sun on Tuesday, May 22:

The following editorial appeared in the Miami Herald on Wednesday, May 23:

There were no cameras around to record whether President Obama was winking when, on his first full day in office, he signed an executive order and two presidential memorandums declaring that "every agency and department should know that this administration stands on the side not of those who seek to withhold information, but those who seek to make it known."

The following editorial appeared in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on Wednesday, May 23:

Turkish President Abdullah Gul, in Chicago for the NATO summit, sat down with the Chicago Tribune's editorial board Monday and I sat in.

The following editorial appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer on Tuesday, May 22:

The following editorial appeared in the Baltimore Sun on Tuesday, May 22:

The following editorial appeared in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on Tuesday, May 22:

The following editorial appeared in the Los Angeles Times on Tuesday, May 22:

Unless you want a fight to break out at a cocktail party or a family reunion, conventional wisdom has it, don't talk religion or politics.

Not since Demi Moore appeared nude and pregnant on a1991 cover of "Vanity Fair" has an image of an American mother so divided, enraged, delighted, captivated and horrified the masses.

Having read the survey of college graduates that found nearly one in four would not take a job that didn't allow them to make or receive personal calls at work makes you wonder if they live in the real world.

In Tahrir Square, the only reminders of last year's Arab Spring are a handful of tattered tents and the hawkers who sell leftover trinkets from the revolution.

So Americans Elect wasn't a subterfuge for Michael Bloomberg, Colin Powell or Jon Huntsman after all.

See if you can distinguish the real news story from the overwritten fake ones.

The following editorial appeared in the Seattle Times on Monday, May 21:

The following editorial appeared in the Kansas City Star on Monday, May 21:

The following editorial appeared in the Los Angeles Times on Monday, May 21:

MINNEAPOLIS - Watch enough television and your mind can feel like it's dissolving into liquid cheese. Thank goodness for those magic moments, the ones that make you proud to own a TV rather than being deeply ashamed. Even though the 2011-12 season was less than inspiring, I found 10 reasons this winter and spring to celebrate:

The Supreme Court is about to toss a judicial bomb into the middle of the presidential campaign, and nobody knows what impact it will have.

For 22 years, Duh and I have lived in the same house. It's close to 90 years old and so is the grass and stuff around it.

The following editorial appeared in the Los Angeles Times on Friday, May 18:

The following editorial appeared in the Philadelphia Daily News on Friday, May 18:

The following editorial appeared in the Los Angeles Times on Friday, May 18:

I doubt that the average American is pondering the political death of Dick Lugar. Heck, most might think "Dick Lugar" sounds like the name of the hero of a spy novel.

The new era of sudden, potentially transformative developments lives on in the Middle East, and it reached Israel in the middle of the night on May 8.

So the people got sick of it, all those criminals being coddled by all those bleeding heart liberal judges with all their soft-headed concern for rights and rehabilitation. And a wave swept this country in the Reagan years, a wave ridden by pundits and politicians seeking power, a wave that said, no mercy, no more. From now on, judges would be severely limited in the sentences they could hand down for certain crimes, required to impose certain punishments whether or not they thought those punishments fit the circumstances at hand. From now on, there was a new mantra in American justice. From now on, we would be "tough on crime."

The following editorial appeared in the Chicago Tribune on Thursday, May 17:

For TV lovers this is the best time of the year, right after the networks have trotted out all their programming for next fall to entice the advertising agencies in New York.

Does anyone know what a woman looks like when she's not being watched? Women are more or less poster girls for the Heisenberg principle: It's like you can never know what we look like when we're not being observed, because we're always being observed.

In this presidential campaign headquarters, in a second-floor apartment in the Cairo neighborhood of Garden City, young female volunteers in full veil work alongside women in colorful headscarfs and those with flowing, uncovered hair. All work side by side with young men as they scan video clips on their computers.

The following editorial appeared in the Los Angeles Times on Thursday, May 17:

Finding temporary housing in London was easier, I swear it.

The following editorial appeared in the Los Angeles Times on Thursday, May 17:

What happens if you start a political party and nobody comes? Six months ago, a newfangled third party burst onto the scene, full of hope and promise. It was called Americans Elect, and it sought to give voters a choice many said they were looking for: "centrist" candidates who could break the partisan gridlock paralyzing Washington.

What happens if you start a political party and nobody comes? Six months ago, a newfangled third party burst onto the scene, full of hope and promise. It was called Americans Elect, and it sought to give voters a choice many said they were looking for: "centrist" candidates who could break the partisan gridlock paralyzing Washington.

An odd bit of swag arrived via mail the other day, courtesy of the Fox network. Sandwiched between two heavy chunks of acrylic glass was a dark slice of film, no wider than a Post-it note. It was a commemorative X-ray from the set of "House," the landmark medical series that pulls the plug on its eight-year run Monday night.

The following editorial appeared in the Seattle Times on Wednesday, May 16:

The following editorial appeared in the Los Angeles Times on Wednesday, May 16:

The following editorial appeared in the Miami Herald on Wednesday, May 16: