US Editorials
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Clothing the world shouldn’t be a death sentence
The following editorial appeared in the Dallas Morning News on Monday, May 20:In Third World countries, workers often toil for pennies a day in backbreaking, life-threatening sweatshop jobs that are the margin between feeding a family and starvation.That imagery represents an uncomfortable truth about capitalism and global trade: Products marketed by mass retailers in Dallas, New York or London ...
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Are White House scandals a Big Government scandal
BEN BOYCHUK and JOEL MATHISScripps Howard News Service05-23-13By BEN BOYCHUK and JOEL MATHISCongress this week delved deeper into claims that the Internal Revenue Service improperly targeted conservative and religious nonprofit groups for extraordinary scrutiny in 2009 and 2010, and kept mum about the until after the 2012 election.Meantime, the Washington Post reported that the Justice ...
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Letters Bennett is right
What a breath of fresh air to read former Sen. Bob Bennett's article regarding John Swallow — something that really makes sense instead of the wild rhetoric to which we are exposed on a daily basis ("Swallow needs administrative leave," May 20). Regardless of whether Swallow is falsely accused or blatantly guilty, Bennett's suggestion that Swallow be placed on the ...
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White House press corps has been turned into potted plants
On days when the president is coming, the White House press room, the East Room and even occasionally the Rose Garden are ornamented with dozens of objects that perform the decorative and utilitarian purpose of potted ...
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Letters Let organizations decide
Rich McKeown, spokesman for Count My Vote (CMV) said, "We just think we can do better" (GOP delegates reject changes to nominating system," May 18). A few people believe their ideas on how to improve the process private organizations use to select their representatives. Then when the groups don't agree, these ideas should be imposed on them by force of law. If my friends and ...
Movie Review
Collateral Damage
Originally pulled from the fall 2001 release schedule in the wake of the events of September 11, when Hollywood had an unsurprisingly temporary and fleeting crisis of conscience regarding the depiction of violence in the movies, particularly terrorist-related violence, Andrew Davis' Collateral Damage has now been released, probably with the hopes that it will serve some form of mass cathar ... ...
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Letters Murdock Canal trail
Fifteen years ago while serving as mayor of Highland, I sat in meetings with other elected officials where we discussed the possibilities of a trail along the Murdock ...
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What others say Solving a non-problem
The following editorial appeared recently in the Philadelphia Daily News: Think back — back before we knew that the IRS was unacceptably targeting right-wing groups for scrutiny or that the Department of Justice was unbelievably searching the phone records of journalists. Think all the way back to February, when all anyone in Washington was talking about was the country's fiscal ...
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Serious issues in Colorado prisons parole division
The Colorado Department of Corrections announced Wednesday that Tim Hand, director of the parole division, had been placed on a temporary paid leave of absence. (Helen H. Richardson, The Denver Post) ( | ) The announcement Wednesday from the Department of Corrections that Tim Hand, the director of the parole division, had been placed on a temporary paid leave of absence coincides with the latest ...
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Sergio Garcia chicken gaffe reveals our thin skin
Things weren't always so tense between Tiger Woods, left, and Sergio Garcia. They reached a low-point this week with Garcia's fried chicken remark. (ELISE ...
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Throw Detroit pension trustees overboard
Scores of public sector pension fund administrators are skipping this ...