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2013/06/18 06:23
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Get our rights back
To the Editor: Over the last few months, I have thought of composing a letter to express my thoughts, again, about the many freedoms that we have given up in the name of security. Recently, I read an...
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2013/06/17 19:22
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Leonard Pitts Jr.: Redskins is a curse word, not ...
For years, I've argued with certain African-American people about their insistence upon using the so-called N-word which, to my ears, is, inalterably, a statement of self-loathing. They say I don't...
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2013/06/17 13:44
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Pitts: We're trading our freedom for false sense ...
Leonard Pitts Jr. is a columnist for the Miami Herald. Reach him at lpitts@herald.com. It will not be with guns. If ever tyranny overtakes this land of the sometimes free and home of the...
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2013/06/14 04:22
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LEONARD PITTS: Surrendering our liberties
It will not be with guns. If ever tyranny overtakes this land of the sometimes free and home of the intermittently brave, it probably won't, contrary to the fever dreams of gun rights extremists,...
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2013/06/11 09:08
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Selling Obamacare in Arizona; 'Hassle-free' marke...
You may not admit it, but you are a fan of Obamacare and Gov. Jan Brewer knows it. The Republicans who run the Arizona legislature don't like Obamacare. And the Republicans who control the U.S. House...
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2013/06/10 13:44
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Pitts: Republicans need to put scandals in perspe...
Leonard Pitts Jr. is a columnist for the Miami Herald. Reach him at lpitts@herald.com. You'd think they'd never seen a scandal before. Like the nerd hero of some R-rated sex comedy who suddenly...
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2013/06/09 12:29
2013/06/09 12:29
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Leonard Pitts Jr.: Bugnut 'reporter' makes mental...
I cannot write this the way I want. Doing so would invade the privacy of too many people. But I can't be silent, either. Last week, you see, President Obama spoke before a conference of mental health...
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2013/06/08 07:36
2013/06/08 07:36
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Xbox 'Fuse' review merits 4 stars for poor taste
You published a review (June 3) of an Xbox game, "Fuse", which summarizes, "If you (had) ... unlimited power ... would you … deliver electricity to poor countries? ... Don’t be silly. You’d use it to...
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2013/06/07 06:06
2013/06/07 06:06
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Pulitzer Prize winning columnist visits Marlboro ...
MARLBORO — It was three weeks ago when 12-year-old Niki Ta emailed Leonard Pitts Jr., a Pulitzer Prize winning writer. In her note, Ta, a seventh-grader at Marlboro Memorial Middle School, asked...
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2013/06/07 05:06
2013/06/07 05:06
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Friday letters: Hate the sin, love the sinner
In his May 31 column, “Scouts don’t deserve applause,” Leonard Pitts said “a record 59 percent of all Americans now find gay and lesbian relationships morally acceptable, according to a Gallup poll”...
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2013/06/06 14:04
2013/06/06 14:04
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Leonard Pitts: Here's some advice for GOP: Chill
Like the nerd hero of some R-rated sex comedy who suddenly finds himself alone with a willing girl for the first time, some on the Republican right are giddy, hyperventilating and acting a little...
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2013/06/06 11:17
2013/06/06 11:17
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Proposed press shield has holes
We saw a similar response to the horrible Connecticut school shootings last December -- a raft of laws that wouldn't have prevented the tragedy in the first place. It seems that whenever government...
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2013/06/03 13:44
2013/06/03 13:44
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Pitts: Boy Scouts' decision on gays is nothing to...
Leonard Pitts Jr. is a columnist for the Miami Herald. Reach him at lpitts@herald.com. Hold your applause. As milestones go, this one is disappointing. It is, at best, half a milestone. Or a down...
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2013/06/02 16:22
2013/06/02 16:22
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Leonard Pitts Jr.: Extremism is the common denomi...
... know this sounds racist, but ... ." So goes the subject line on last week's email from Bill, a reader. It seems Bill has an idea. Given that "all of the radical terrorists have been Muslims," he...
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2013/06/02 05:56
2013/06/02 05:56
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Labeling it as a hate crime misses point
DEAR EDITOR: You recently ran an article by Leonard Pitts regarding the shooting of a gay man in New York. The inference was that it was a "hate crime" simply because of the man's sexual orientation...
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2013/05/28 22:03
2013/05/28 22:03
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Letters to editor: Texting, Mother Nature, and ex...
Why are our legislators so slow to pass laws that save lives? According to the article "Holiday brings FHP seat-belt crackdown" in Thursday's Sentinel, it took years to push the seat-belt law, which...
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2013/05/27 13:44
2013/05/27 13:44
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Pitts: Fla.'s move to expedite death penalty affr...
Leonard Pitts Jr. is a columnist for the Miami Herald. Reach him at lpitts@herald.com. At great political peril, George Ryan did the right thing. Not to canonize the man. After all, the...
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2013/05/27 10:29
2013/05/27 10:29
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PITTS: What terrorists must have to succeed - our...
Not saying I won’t, but for now, I’ve chosen not to. To rush online and seek out cellphone footage of two fanatics with machetes who butchered a British soldier in London on Wednesday, to watch them...
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2013/05/22 17:28
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Leonard Pitts Jr.: Why Mark Carson matters
Mark Carson was shot in the face because he's gay. His alleged killer, 33-year old Elliot Morales, is said to have confronted Carson, 32, and a companion, in New York's Greenwich Village last Friday...
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2013/05/20 13:44
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Pitts: Even Tea Party foes should worry about IRS...
Leonard Pitts Jr. is a columnist for the Miami Herald. Reach him at lpitts@herald.com. Well, this is a fine mess. After years of moaning about various "conspiracies" against them, conservative...
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