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Astronaut Chris Hadfields Most Excellent Adventure
After a half-year mission at the International Space Station, Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield lands in central Kazakhstan on May ...
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Matthew Sanders Imploding trust in Americas institutions
America's trust in key public and private institutions has been sliding steeply for the past 20 years. The latest IRS, justice department and Benghazi scandals raging in Washington follow years of declining faith in Congress, banks and news ...
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John Florez Involve the poor in solving poverty
Has the war on poverty been lost because we hired professional soldiers to fight, but never involved the civilians, the poor, in having a say in their ...
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The winners and the losers Venezuela terrorism Spider Man
Winner: The window washer who dressed as Spider Man on Thursday in order to thrill the children who are patients at Primary Children's Medical Center deserves an award. Mimicking the movements of the popular fictional character, he washed the windows of the tall structure and gave the children a thrill, which was, no doubt, exactly what many of them needed that ...
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Letters IRS unpaid furloughs will severely impact taxpayers employees
In a move that likely is unprecedented, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) will close all of its public operations on five separate days between now and Aug. 30, telling its employees to stay home on unpaid furlough days. These closings will severely impact taxpayers and IRS employees. On these days, taxpayers will not be able to get help from the IRS on the telephone, nor will the ...
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Letter On Armed Forces Day reflect on sacrifices and thank the troops
As a member of America's communities, please stop and take a moment today, Armed Forces Day, to reflect on the sacrifices made, on your behalf, by our troops. Then, reach out and demonstrate your thanks personally or through a troop-support organization. You can donate in-kind goods for care packages, or ask what they need to continue support of America's military, veterans and the ...
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Letter The real death panel Republican votes to end the Affordable Care Act
In this March 23, 2010 file photo, Marcelas Owens of Seattle, left, Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich., right, and others, look on as President Barack Obama signs the health care bill in the East Room of the White House in ...
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IRS breaks the rules
It eventually comes down to who - who at the IRS was responsible for targeting conservative and Tea Party groups for special scrutiny.Because, after all, you can’t put a "system" in jail. You can’t put a report in prison. You can’t indict a department for corruption. At the end of the day it’s people who are responsible for using the enormous powers of the ...
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Kerry confront China on human rights
"No nation has more opportunity to advance the cause of democracy, " said then-Sen. John Kerry at his recent confirmation hearing to become U.S. secretary of state. "And no nation is as committed to the cause of human rights as we are." This weekend, ...
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Op-Ed Columnist Resonance Resistant
Whether one thinks the demiscandals being howled about in Washington should or should not resonate more widely, they ...
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Op-Ed Columnist Energy Exports Are Good
What first caught my eye was the op-ed article in The Wall Street Journal. Published in late February, it was written by Andrew N. Liveris, the chairman and chief executive of the Dow Chemical Company. Liveris, an Australian, has become quite the Washington player in recent ...
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Editorial €300000 worth of jewellery swiped so many explanations
Ah, the irony. The Cannes Film Festival - promoter of any number of heist movies - was itself the scene of an audacious robbery yesterday. Indeed, it was on the very day of the screening of The Bling Ring (about a gang that burgles the rich and famous while they are strutting the red carpet) that thieves swiped EUR300,000 (250,000) worth of jewellery that was to adorn Hollywood's A-listers ...
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Editorial Sales Taxes and the Internet
Twenty-one Republicans voted with 46 Democrats (and 2 Independents) recently to pass the Marketplace Fairness Act, a long-overdue bill allowing states to require online retailers to collect sales taxes and remit them to the state where the customer lives. Will the House be so rational? ...
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Editorial Angelina Jolies Disclosure
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Editorial Wake up the IRS watchdogs
ENFORCEMENT of federal tax laws has key benchmarks that must be respected. The rules and regulations must be applied in an equitable, nonpartisan and timely manner. The Internal Revenue Service appears to have broken all the rules with its treatment of tea-party groups and other conservative organizations seeking tax-exempt status. The shabby behavior was further compounded by the oblivious ...
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Saints ballpark estimates Just a bit high
St. Paul from Illinois to be near our children, who like countless others were drawn here for the metropolitan area’s quality of life. We chose to live in the Lowertown neighborhood of downtown. Clearly, downtown St. Paul has a charm few deny, but it also has growing economic problems. Recently, I studied how the city came to the point of breaking ground for a $54 million minor-league ...
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Up north a sea to explore
The Arctic, which is melting and thereby creating new shipping routes and access to minerals, poses a foreign policy challenge for the United States and other nations - particularly in the warmer months when once-impassable seas become open. But it’s easy to put off dealing with it. The process is like the annual scramble for summer camp: The need for planning begins around February, when ...
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Minnesota vets unfairly targeted by benefit change
John Kriesel 's young son was hit in the face with a baseball two years ago, the disabled Iraq veteran and former Minnesota legislator brought his boy to the doctor and then in for an MRI scan to rule out a serious brain injury. Thanks to the Pentagon health insurance program for military retirees that Kriesel is currently enrolled in, his out-of-pocket expenses were about $20. But if the ...
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Americans your patriotic duty is to ask for a raise
The downturn we call the Great Recession officially started in 2007. But after spending the last two years talking to people who lost jobs, homes or savings during the official recession, I'd argue that the trouble actually started decades earlier. Almost all those I spoke to had already slogged through many years of stagnant or declining hourly wages by the time the recession kicked in. ...
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Do more to get impaired drivers off U.S. roads
It is surprising how few drinks can impair a driver’s judgment. A report from the National Transportation Safety Board estimates that alcohol-impaired driving contributes to thousands of deaths and tens of thousands of serious injuries each year. It is right to urge states to reduce that toll by lowering the allowable blood alcohol concentration for drivers from 0.08 percent to 0.05 ...
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Letter of the Day Child-care union
Don't buy the spin coming from the Star Tribune Editorial Board ("DFL's day care overreach," May 16). Child-care providers across Minnesota want a union and have delivered 874 handwritten letters to their legislators in support of it. The idea that we are merely on a wish list for the union is demeaning to every provider who has fought so hard for this. The editorial writers ...
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The Sun Rises on Human Rights
TOKYO - As U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry arrives in Japan, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is making waves. Known for his aggressive efforts to revive Japan’s economy, his nationalist rhetoric and his openness to military strength, he is also pushing Japan toward a new assertiveness on human rights. Despite a vibrant democracy at home, the diplomats who guide Japan’s foreign policy ...
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Will Kenyas new president respect international court
At his inauguration on April 9, Kenya's new president, Uhuru Kenyatta, promised to uphold "international obligations". This was most likely a reference to the International Criminal Court. Kenyatta and his deputy, William Ruto, are to stand trial before the ICC for crimes against humanity allegedly committed during the country's election-related violence in 2007 and 2008. ...
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Letter Praise for Guatemalas President
To the Editor: In ...
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Letter The Fired-Up G.O.P.
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