Editorial: A better way to describe tax rates
Can we clear something up?The debate in Washington has been focused for months on income tax rates. But the way politicians and media frame the issue of the Bush tax rates is at odds with one of the...
View ArticleEditorial: The fiscal cliff was entirely avoidable
Heres to hoping the nations elected leaders in Washington not only avert the so-called fiscal cliff that looms in a month but also make some headway in getting the nations finances in order.No...
View ArticleEditorial: Compromise or quit, politicians
Just split the difference already.Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill are playing this game of semantics over what constitutes a real revenue increase, with President Barack Obama wanting to...
View ArticleEditorial: Monsters and the Middle East
Its an old story, but all hell is breaking loose in the Middle East. Nowhere is that more so than in Syria, where U.S. intelligence suggests that an increasingly desperate Bashal al-Assad is preparing...
View ArticleEditorial: The budget and the boomers
With all the talk about the fiscal cliff, this ought to be an opportunity for Americans to get a lesson in government finances. Instead, the campaign, and the weeks of jockeying that have followed...
View ArticleEditorial: Can we rise to the challenge, America?
From an Interfaith Memorial Service in Newtown, Conn., on Sunday night, President Barack Obama made a powerful appeal to the nation to address the root causes of an unthinkable and senseless act of...
View ArticleEditorial: Another poke in the eye from a too big to fail
Ultimately, insurance giant AIG decided not to join a lawsuit against the federal government brought by shareholders alleging that big, bad Uncle Sam went too hard on them in the process of saving...
View ArticleEditorial: At last, a smart move from House Republicans
On Wednesday the GOP-led House voted 285-144, with all but 33 Republicans on board, to extend the debt ceiling another three months without spending concessions, postponing their confrontation with a...
View ArticleEditorial: No more Mr. Nice Guy?
Together, we resolved that a great nation must care for the vulnerable, and protect its people from lifes worst hazards and misfortune ... But we have always understood that when times changes, so...
View ArticleEditorial: Missing Stan the Man
We live in era where cheaters, bullies and less-than-admirable characters Barry Bonds, Lance Armstrong, Tiger Woods, etc. too often dominate the sports headlines. The more outrageous, the better...
View ArticleEditorial: Immigration reform fine, but not at expense of sputtering economy
You just dont hear the hue and cry anymore when immigration reform comes up. Funny the immediate effect an election can have on attitudes.A bipartisan group of U.S. senators, including Republicans...
View ArticleEditorial: A pivotal week for gay marriage, and for the Supreme Court
Two cases before the U.S. Supreme Court this week regarding gay marriage represent one of those delicious situations likely to compel Americans including those nine on the court to confront their...
View ArticleEditorial: Rational policy for e-cigarettes
The growing popularity of e-cigarettes raises two issues for policymakers — one of them simple, the other more complicated.E-cigarettes serve up nicotine extract in a vaporized form, cooking it without...
View ArticleFinding Common Ground - A Day In The Life
I had lots of company when I woke up the other morning. You were all there, standing around my bed, demanding a correction. It was enough to make me pull the covers over my head and scream, "No mas!"...
View ArticleEditorial: The Dream, as yet unfulfilled
A 22-year-old Australian man, in the United States to attend college and play baseball, was senselessly gunned down in Oklahoma recently.Christopher Lane did nothing to provoke the attack. In Duncan,...
View ArticleEditorial: Let Iraqis fight this war
The Iraqi city of Fallujah was taken over by Sunni extremists in 2004, and the U.S. Marines were sent in to take it back. They succeeded, at a cost of 95 Marines killed, thousands of Iraqi casualties...
View ArticleEditorial: Tsarnaev and the death penalty
Nine months after the Boston Marathon bombings, emotions may still be too raw for a full-throated debate over Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to seek the death penalty for the sole surviving...
View ArticleEditorial: Women’s soccer in hunt for gold
The U.S. Women's Soccer Team, winners of the World Cup in Canada only last year but coming off some shaky play that ended in a 2-2 tie in the final match of group play in the Olympics this year, enters...
View ArticleEditorial: Red line crossings
Lost amid the past week's hoopla over serial revelations concerning Hillary Clinton's emails and her foundation and Donald Trump's immigration positionings was yet another humiliating indication of the...
View ArticleEditorial: A quarterback’s kneeling protest
Quarterback Colin Kaepernick isn't the first athlete to make a political protest when the spotlight is on him. John Carlos and Tommie Smith famously raised a black power salute as they received their...
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