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The Real Costs of CIA Cash
reported recently that the CIA routinely provides cash payments to Afghan President Hamid Karzai, totaling in the tens of millions of dollars, many were surprised. I wasn't among them. The Karzai scandal cycle has developed a certain amount of redundancy: his odd outbursts, his family's endless corruption, the vacillating positions on peace negotiations and about faces on the Taliban ...
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Minnesota Legislature yields mixed results
No trumpets blared or crowds cheered Monday night as the 2013 Legislature’s regular session drew to a close. Weary legislators are expected to troop home today to confront mixed responses to the year’s labors. We share that ambivalence, and concede that it may spring from expectations that were too high. This year’s return to all-DFL control at the Capitol after 22 years of ...
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Catholic nuns put faith before church hierarchy
Recently, opponents of deportations held a rally to commemorate the five-year anniversary of what they call an unjust immigration sweep of 389 people in a kosher meat-packing plant in Postville, Iowa. Last July, three people breached security and entered a nuclear facility in Oak Ridge, Tenn., housing highly enriched uranium, where they spilled blood at the site before being arrested. Last ...
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The Starfleet Divide The Star Trek Universe Revisits One Of Its Great Debates
Abrams' hyperactive movie talked fast and walked fast -- when it wasn't at a dead run. Indeed, in its breakneck pace and its camera-flare and whip-pan-loving ...
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At L.A.s UnCabaret 25 Years Of Letting It All Hang Out
Beth Lapides (with music director-producer Mitch Kaplan) is the founder and ringmaster at UnCabaret, a Los Angeles comedy institution that's marking its 25th anniversary this ...
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The Little Metronome That Wouldnt
keep doing that. Metronomes not in sync with the table have their motions dampened, then countered, until they do it "the table's way." Eventually all the metronomes come into alignment. That's what you saw in our small, chamber music version. Now we're going symphonic. This time, we'll have a much bigger table with 32 brightly colored metronomes -- a Mormon ...
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Sandwich Monday The Saltwich
panel of experts convened by the Institute of Medicine says limiting salt below a certain amount may not really do us any good. Around here, we take this to mean: Eat as much salt as you can or you'll die. So, we've created The Saltwich, made with the saltiest foods we could find. Salami, bacon, pickles and salt-and-vinegar potato chips, on salty pretzel bread. Salt to ...
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Mel Brooks Im An EGOT I Dont Need Any More
Comedian, writer, director, producer and actor Mel Brooks is one of only 11 people to have won Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony awards. Others in the elite EGOT club include Mike Nichols and Whoopi ...
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Myanmar army continues to live in denial over abuses
Myanmar's rapidly evolving political landscape produced another symbolic event at the recent Armed Forces Day parade. Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi attended for the first time, sitting alongside generals in the viewing stands as thousands of troops, tanks, and missiles passed by. An open question is who needed who more -- a deeply unpopular military seeking the aura of an ...
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Editorial First Amendment rumble
However, in order to gather evidence against Kim, FBI Agent Reginald Reyes filed an affidavit in federal court indicating there was evidence that Rosen (who was not mentioned by name in the affidavit) had broken the law "at the very least, either as an aider, abettor and/or co-conspirator." Nearly four years later, Rosen has not been charged with a crime, but indicating there was a ...
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Op-Ed Contributor American Global Primacy and Presidential Vision
As we debate our role in the world today, it is worth asking how American global primacy came about in the last century. After all, George Washington celebrated our ...
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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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