Editorial: Rights for me, but not for thee
Sometimes you have to wonder if the cultural canyon between the West and the Arab world is impossible to bridge. Sometimes you have to wonder if the political divides in this country which have taken...
View ArticleEditorial: Mitt Romney wins round 1
After a self-damaging few weeks, Mitt Romney did what he had to do at Wednesday night’s presidential debate, besting President Barack Obama in the first of three such confrontations.For his part the...
View ArticleEditorial: In this era, slow growth beats no growth
The September jobs report is in, and for the first time in the Obama presidency, unemployment has dipped below 8 percent. By one measure 114,000 new jobs were added, with employment gains for July and...
View ArticleEditorial: Not just Petraeus, but privacy itself imperiled
So General David Petraeus pulled a President Clinton, of sorts, and now hes paying for it, though the victims here may go beyond the principle players. Apparently even the director of the CIA can be...
View ArticleEditorial: Mideast meltdown
While everyone on this side of the ocean seems obsessed with the soap opera that is the Petraeus scandal, things are heating up in the Middle East, with Syria specifically going out of its way to turn...
View ArticleEditorial: 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...
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