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Steve Poizner: It's only a dime, but it should anger you

By Steve Poizner - Published: 12:00 am

Whatever you may think of our dysfunctional Legislature, the truth is that it's probably worse than you imagine. What it did to Assembly Bill 601 is Exhibit A. While the Legislature grudges state programs every penny these days, it has refused to let me reduce a fee that is too high. It's a tiny amount – 10 cents on every auto insurance policy – but it's money the Department of Insurance doesn't need right now, and I thought it was good policy to ask for the reduction. But the Legislature insists that motorists be overcharged.

Rich Lowry: Fully grounded founders knew what to do – and how to do it

By Rich Lowry - Published: 12:00 am

As a nation, we were extraordinarily blessed in our revolutionaries. It wasn't just that they were brave and determined. So were the avatars of revolution throughout the 20th century who wrecked nations and peoples.

Cal Thomas: And if N. Korea nukes Hawaii, Obama will open a 'dialogue'?

By Cal Thomas - Published: Friday, July 3 2009 - 12:00 am

Help me out here. President Barack Obama immediately "meddles" in the affairs of Honduras, denouncing a military coup, the intent of which is to preserve the country's constitution, but when it comes to Iran's fraudulent election and the violent repression of demonstrators who wanted their votes counted, the president initially vacillates and equivocates.

Eugene Robinson: A pack of parasites kept megastar on path to destruction

By Eugene Robinson - Published: Friday, July 3 2009 - 12:00 am

Many performers can impress or delight, but only a few can astonish. Michael Jackson did it twice.

Margaret A. Bengs: Dust off that moral compass, Californians

By Margaret A. Bengs - Published: Friday, July 3 2009 - 12:00 am

If you're a teen in California, want to know about your "right to privacy" and "reproductive health care"? Do you need your parents' permission to get birth control pills? Can you get a pregnancy test without your parents knowing?

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Tigers making the right moves in the trading game

By PATRICK REUSSE - Published: 1:00 am

Matt Wallace is a citizen journalist covering the Detroit Tigers minor leagues in the blog "Take 75 North." In December, the Tigers traded outfielder Matt Joyce to Tampa Bay for starting pitcher Edwin Jackson.

Royals take the fun out of an otherwise good night

By JOE POSNANSKI - Published: 1:00 am

There was really only one word for Friday night's game: Depressing.

Lopez makes it back for a nice Philadelphia Story

By JIM SALISBURY - Published: 1:00 am

As good as doctors have gotten at fixing elbow ligaments that have been shredded by years of throwing baseballs, there's always some doubt in a pitcher's mind when a scalpel pierces the tool of his trade.

Marlins can't sit still before trade deadline

By DAVID J. NEAL - Published: 8:21 pm

Remember what happened the last time the Marlins awakened on July 3 in first place? No, you don't.

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Here's hoping for a happy ending in strange journey of Michelle Wie

By MICHAEL ROSENBERG - Published: 6:31 pm

I don't know how many Michiganders are traveling to the Toledo area this weekend to see Michelle Wie play in the Jamie Farr Owens Corning Classic. I suspect some people are going explicitly to see her, and a lot of people - golf fans, even - cannot imagine wanting to see her.

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Here's appreciating competitive eating, and tasty food again

By TOM SORENSEN - Published: 5:11 pm

I know mature adults who pretend they won't watch Nathan's Famous Fourth of July Hot Dog Eating Contest on Saturday.

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Kobe Bryant translates well in Asia, being honored as a global ambassador

By MARCIA C. SMITH - Published: 1:46 pm

Knocked in the spine with a television camera, poked in the ribs by a photo-ready cellphone, clubbed in the face with a boom microphone and shoved clumsily into the velvet ropes bordering the Beverly Hilton's red carpet, there was nothing to be lost in translation.

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Royals reliably bad at running

By JOE POSNANSKI - Published: Friday, July 3 2009 - 1:00 am

One thing you can say about these Royals: They are reliable. I went out Thursday night with the tentative idea of writing about the remarkably bad base running they have exhibited this year. And it has been legendarily bad.

Let Jason Kidd walk now so Mavericks can run in 2010

By JENNIFER FLOYD ENGEL - Published: Thursday, July 2 2009 - 8:21 pm

I must be missing something. I keep hearing how the Dallas Mavericks absolutely have to sign Jason Kidd to whatever deal he commands. The logic is he is better than the nothing they have at point guard to replace him.

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A couple of dandy Andys in men's semifinals at Wimbledon

By MICHELLE KAUFMAN - Published: Thursday, July 2 2009 - 7:01 pm

There is one and only one Andy who matters in Great Britain this week, and it's not the American in the alligator shirt. As far as the Brits are concerned, The Important Andy in the Wimbledon semifinals is Andy Murray, the third-ranked Scot who has created such hysteria that the BBC bumped the wildly popular EastEnders series to BBC2 so they could air Murray's fourth-round, roof-covered match.

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