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Editorials
Tax mania: Beware of a new feel-good bill on assessments (5/18/2012)
Justice on ice: Orie Melvin should resign to make the court whole (5/19/2012)
Rape trial: Obama forces prisons to get tough on assaults (5/19/2012)
Great Lakes threat: The Corps must be as aggressive as Asian carp (5/18/2012)
Economic fix: A town meeting addresses Issue No. 1 (5/18/2012)

Jack Kelly
In the case of Iran nukes, Israel likely to intervene (5/18/2012)

Letters
Thanks to those who halted the neighborhood tax (5/19/2012)
Obama clearly wants to help the middle class (5/18/2012)
Religious insight (5/18/2012)
Beware of austerity measures to fix national economies (5/18/2012)
Poor operations (5/19/2012)
Transit hardships (5/19/2012)
Civil rights, period (5/18/2012)
In a free society (5/18/2012)
Stadium corrals (5/19/2012)
Fracking caution (5/19/2012)
No perfect providers (5/18/2012)
Military might doesn't address the real needs of our nation (5/18/2012)

Perspectives
George F. Will / The menace of bipartisanship: Our metastasizing entitlement state borrows money to give away (5/18/2012)
First Person / A lesson in moonlight: I learned to look out from small places, and see (5/19/2012)
Saturday Diary / Playing catch ... and catching up (5/19/2012)
Gail Collins /Big news about our really, really big debt (5/18/2012)
This Modern World / Invasion of the Austerions! (5/19/2012)
Paul Krugman / Apocalypse fairly soon: If the euro blows up, the extremists will rise (5/19/2012)
The stats to watch: Unemployment rates in swing states are the best predictor of next president (5/18/2012)
Saturday Poem / We Have a Map of the Future (5/19/2012)
Charles Krauthammer / On same-sex marriage, the president has contradictory positions (5/19/2012)