Somebody with a microphone asked Steelers safety Tyrone Carter if the better team won here yesterday. It seemed like such a jarring question considering the Kansas City Chiefs are a miserable team that came in 2-7 and the Steelers like to think of themselves as Super Bowl contenders. Or at least did.

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P We've had it cranked to banish our endless house-painting blues, and the lyrics got mixed up in the week's headlines, which were pretty dismal, as usual.

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Remember when it was fashionable to trash Rashard Mendenhall, to snark on his fumbling, riff on his evident indecision, bewail his questionable status as a force for good on an offense laced with All-Pros and Super Bowl MVPs?

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Henry Posner III owns railroads from Iowa to Peru, but, with his buttoned-down, deadpan delivery, he seems more like Bob Newhart than Cornelius Vanderbilt.

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He puts the country at risk to embarrass the Bush administration

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We have much to learn from modern China, including traditional American values

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Mesmerized by the land, you can almost forget about 'the situation'

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Forty-six years ago this weekend, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated as he rode in his motorcade in Dallas.

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One of my homeowning neighbors was in his yard near sunset (after lunch), raking up a big pile of fallen leaves. "You think it's done for the year?" I said.

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It is not often that a sappy show on TV spurs me to write a column about something, especially if that something happens to be one of the Ten Commandments.

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Holding 9/11 trials poses high risks, but Obama had little choice

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