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OPINION
East Oregonian
Saturday, January 10, 2015
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Pendleton
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Astoria
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Pendleton
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OUR VIEW
Army should give
straight answer
on future of depot T
he journalists at Charlie Hebdo
as martyrs on behalf of freedom
Umatilla and Morrow County were
David
Brooks
It was also buoyed by it — the
Comment
That organization, the Columbia
There were
going through the
of businesses in
different industries
and building on the
That is the
sound of the needle
seeing that while their religion may be
Taxpayers
footed the bill
from Day 1.
If the Army
needs funding,
it should
come from
Congressionally-
approved
sources, not
land sale.
burden should be
are a lot less tolerant toward those who offend
the bill from Day 1,
The University of Illinois
needs funding, it
The University of Kansas
If the Umatilla
for writing a harsh tweet
is no longer a
hazardous but
fading suddenly and the bright lights
Charlie Hebdo for being
Ayaan Hirsi Ali is invited to
what it has been doing well for
that they may want to hold on to
So this might be a
slaughter of those writers
As we are
mortified by
the slaughter
of those writers
and editors in
Paris, it’s a good
time to come
up with a less
hypocritical
approach
to our own
controversial
figures,
provocateurs
and satirists.
insulters, we want to
maintain standards of
at the same time allowing
are uninhibited by good
almost always wrong to try
manners are more malleable
avenues for those who are
Le Monde or the
engage in the sort of deliberately offensive
The neighbors in Hermiston,
views of reality and more forgiving views
attentively have to earn it through their
Unsigned editorials are the opinion of the East Oregonian editorial board of Publisher
Kathryn Brown, Managing Editor Daniel Wattenburger, and Opinion Page Editor Tim Trainor.
Other columns, letters and cartoons on this page express the opinions of the authors and not
necessarily that of the East Oregonian.
should remind us to be legally tolerant toward
David Brooks became a New York Times
Op-Ed columnist in September 2003.
YOUR VIEWS
Disrespectful to replace Darby
with Esther Motanic statue
In regard to the letter in the East
Oregonian
of Stella Darby with the statue of Esther
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Jerry Severe
Pendleton
Recipe for disaster: limiting
motorized use on public land
motorized use:
Ingredients: one regional forester, three
•Add in two others that will blend smoothly
John D. George
Bates Ore.
around $5,000 dollars a year to turn a deaf