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Letter Turkey and Syria A Slippery Slope
Regarding the article ...
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A quick count for L.A.
With any luck, the campaign for mayor of Los Angeles will end Tuesday in a decisive victory for one candidate or the other. Then the winner can begin the task of building an administration and filling the ranks of commission appointments that will form the city's leadership core for the next four - or possibly eight - years. But this is a close race, and many residents have voted by mail or ...
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Prayers in public offices
The Supreme Court should rule that prayers in official meetings in Greece, N.Y., shouldn't favor a particular religion. Public bodies should stick to secular ...
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Goldberg Obamas idiot defense
David Axelrod defended the administration on the grounds that the "government is so vast" the president "can't know" what's going on "underneath" him. Of course, it was Obama who once said, "I know more about policies on any particular issue than my policy directors." In a matter of weeks, the president went from saying the "government is ...
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Patrick Chappatte Apple and Tax Avoidance
Why would Apple executives try to avoid paying billions in taxes in the United States and around the world? Patrick Chappatte is an editorial cartoonist for the International Herald Tribune. View more of his work, visit his Web site or follow him on ...
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GAFFNEY The night that all the lights go out
View results In 1987, Ronald Reagan mused that if the world were about to be devastated by an alien force - perhaps a collision with a large asteroid - peoples of all nations, ideological persuasions and political parties would come together to save the planet and our civilization. We may be about to test that proposition.At the moment, no asteroid is known to be hurtling our way. A naturally ...
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SOLOMON Chilling one reporters sources
Justice Department secretly collected the phone records of four of my former colleagues at The Associated Press, I was one of the first reporters to have his home phone records and personal mail gathered by ...
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EDITORIAL Mr. Obama and his scandals
Mr. Pruitt , ';if you talk to the press, we’re going to go after you.';The FBI did obtain a warrant before demanding that Google turn over the personal emails ...
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DEAN The truth about big government
David Axelrod , one of President Obama’s most amusing spinners. He recently opined - if that is the right term - that the government the president leads is so ';vast'; that the president cannot be expected to know, much less be accountable for, what goes on in it. Imagine that. This is the same man who wants to grow that same government and to give the same agency that prompted ...
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EDITORIAL A voice for the goose
City Council in Takoma Park, Md., prides itself as living on the cutting edge of liberalism. The small town bristles at life in the left-leaning shadow of the District of Columbia, and often tries to go one small step further left. Takoma Park has declared itself a ';nuclear-free zone'; and a ';sanctuary city'; for illegal aliens. Foie gras is banned in restaurants (goose ...
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BURRACK Sowing the seeds of farm failure
U.S. Department of Agriculture this month took an unfortunate step toward Europeanization when it delayed the approval of two crops that will help farmers control weeds and produce more food. The decision didn’t receive much immediate attention outside the agricultural press, but it sent a troubling signal about the future of farm technology that should concern all Americans.At the heart ...
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RAHN Why the IRS cannot be reformed
IRS regulations are devoted to trying to define income. This may seem simple, but consider a business that operates in numerous states and countries and has many product lines. Beginning accounting students learn that business profit or income is equal to net revenue minus expenses. Yet, it is almost impossible to precisely define what is and is not a legitimate expense. What is the proper rate ...
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EDITORIAL A climate milestone
Patrick Michaels at the Cato Institute offer a calmer, constructive view of what’s happening. They observe that while the rise in atmospheric carbon-dioxide levels in recent centuries has tracked with an increase in the use of fossil fuels, it has also been accompanied by great leaps in the human condition, including a global population growth of 75 percent and a doubling of life ...
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PARISI SOS Save our Scouts
Boy Scouts of America to retain its long-standing ban on openly homosexual youths in its ranks, and it’s a credo as sensible as it is succinct.The battle comes to a head this week when ...
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Easing Africas Pain The Need for Palliative Care
"I am in pain 24 hours a day", Mamadou* told a Human Rights Watch researcher. "The pain I have all over my body…it is in my bones." Mamadou, a 47-year-old man from rural Senegal, has advanced prostate cancer that has spread throughout his body. He can no longer be cured, but with morphine, a strong painkiller, he could live his last months in dignity. However, ...
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A last dance with Kenneth Waltz
By Sreeram Chaulia The death on May 12 of one of the father figures of the theory of international relations (IR), Professor Kenneth Waltz, resonated with every academician who follows world politics. The founder of a dominant school of thought known as neorealism, Waltz, who died aged 88 from complications with pneumonia, was essential reading for generations of students and teachers who ...
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Philippine pivot in the South China Sea
By Richard Javad Heydarian MANILA - After three years of inconclusive bilateral negotiations with China and a year of precarious diplomatic brinkmanship under Cambodia's chairmanship of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), the Philippines has sought new ways to resolve its territorial disputes in the South China Sea. Despite earlier hopes that China's leadership ...
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Japan tips its hand via North Korea
By Peter Lee The big story in Asia affairs today is a little trip that was supposed to stay a secret: the dispatch of Isao Iijima, adviser to Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, to meet with senior officials in North Korea, thereby breaking the united US/South Korean/Japanese front in negotiations with Pyongyang. It is the first instance of an overt divergence between Japanese and US ...
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Syria highlights US political impotence
By Ramzy Baroud In an article published on May 15, American historical social scientist Immanuel Wallerstein wrote, "Nothing illustrates more the limitations of Western power than the internal controversy its elites are having in public about what the United States in particular and Western European states should be doing about the civil war in Syria." Those limitations are ...
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Alibaba stocks up onmobile deals before share sale
By Sherman So HONG KONG - Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group, which is said to be preparing for a public share sale that might be worth more than US$70 billion, is building up its mobile Internet business with a rash of acquisitions as the country's Internet users increasingly switch to mobile-phones and tablets rather than office-bound computers and home laptops. The move to ...
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Robert J. Samuelson Can Americans stem future increases in health care spending
We all know that Stein's Law will someday apply to health care spending, which has risen from 5 percent of the economy (gross domestic product) in 1960 to almost 18 percent now. What we don't know is how and when its share of the economy will ...
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Letters The buck stops here
Hearing of the administration's recent scandals, it's refreshing to remember President Truman who kept a placard on his desk which said: "The Buck Stops ...
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My view Why moderates lost the caucus vote
The real truth is conservative dominance has made moderates uneasy both because of public policy and their inability to be elected through the Republican Party process. Because the Republican Party has not voluntarily responded to moderate policies and candidates, they are trying to compel the party system to ...
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Letters Government health care
Lew Jeppson stops short of the conclusion he should have drawn ("The real death panel," May 18). If you don't want death panels, don't put government in charge of your health ...
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Letters Beware slippery slope
Was it irony or poetry that resulted in Hyrum Anderson's letter "Gun logical fallacies" being placed on the page adjacent to Michael Gerson's column about the recent exposure of IRS abuses of power ("IRS abuses bring out the libertarian in each of us," May 14)? Anderson is right as far as his stating that "tyrannical oppression is not the inevitable outcome of ...
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