stories: Editorials

LETTER TO EDITOR: Politics is not self-service

( ) — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 08:45:00 -0000

The current Real ID debate, which has been under discussion since 2005, clearly illustrates what a basket case the government of Maryland is ("Foes denounce driver's license bill as 'amnesty,' " Metro, March 29).

LETTER TO EDITOR: Rank sophistry

( ) — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 08:45:00 -0000

For a professor wishing to illustrate the meaning of the word "sophistry," Jon O'Brien's letter ("Keep politics out of the church," March 27) could not have been a better illustration of "a plausible but fallacious argument," as the American Heritage Dictionary defines the term.

EDITORIAL: Bonus hypocrisy

( ) — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 08:45:00 -0000

In their recent rush to capitalize on populist anger over executive bonuses being given out by companies getting taxpayer bailouts, House Democratic and Republican lawmakers appear to have forgotten that they also give bonuses.

EDITORIAL: Democracy in action

( ) — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 08:45:00 -0000

The degree to which the Obama administration is responsible for sagging employment might be debatable, but the president and his team definitely deserve credit for the boom in job growth at political action committees.

EDITORIAL: Obama's nuclear-free world

( ) — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 08:45:00 -0000

President Obama scored wild applause at the Strasbourg town meeting last week when he declared his intention to "seek the goal of a world without nuclear weapons."

HENTOFF: The forgotten people

Nat Hentoff ( ) — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 08:45:00 -0000

After Sudan's Adolf Hitler, Gen. Omar Hassan al-Bashir, expelled 13 international humanitarian organizations from Darfur, with the rest to follow within the year, four black African Muslim children - mourned by what is left of their families at the Shangil Tobaya refugee camp - died of malnutrition in late March. Their official death notices will not appear in American newspapers.

COURSON: Key money link at risk

John Courson ( ) — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 08:45:00 -0000

With so much attention focused on the housing market these days, it is surprising that an extremely critical, yet not well publicized, link in the mortgage-lending chain is in danger of becoming permanently broken.

STIER: House lights up FDA regulation

Jeff Stier ( ) — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 08:45:00 -0000

Congress is now considering two rival approaches to altering tobacco regulations.

EDITORIAL: A direct challenge to Obama

( ) — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 08:45:00 -0000

North Korea's launch Sunday of a long-range missile is a direct challenge to President Obama and his "soft power" foreign policy.

EDITORIAL: The traffic-camera scam

( ) — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 08:45:00 -0000

Arlington, Falls Church, Fairfax and Virginia Beach are preparing to stimulate public spending with new red-light camera programs. This is part of a push to fill government budget shortfalls by ramping up tickets for moving violations. Virginia is driving the wrong way down this street.

EDITORIAL: Capitol Hill tackles the BCS

( ) — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 08:45:00 -0000

Proving that no matter is safe from governmental involvement, college football is the latest political football on Capitol Hill.

EDITORIAL: Baser instincts

( ) — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 08:45:00 -0000

Big-budget porn flicks may soon be coming to a college near you.

WHITFIELD: A resolution too far

Ed Whitfield ( ) — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 08:45:00 -0000

President Obama travels today to the Republic of Turkey. This historic visit presents the United States with an excellent chance to assert and strengthen our relationship with a strategic ally and a critical trade partner.

HAIDARI: Correcting perceptions

M. Ashraf Haidari ( ) — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 08:45:00 -0000

As we and our international partners strive to secure Afghanistan, three misperceptions about corruption, narcotics and popular support for international presence have gained currency in certain capitals of our nation-partners.

TOMLINSON: How to lose Congress

Kenneth Tomlinson ( ) — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 08:45:00 -0000

Much of the Hudson River Valley, in all its magnificence, lies in New York's 20th Congressional District. So does Saratoga Springs and its renowned racetrack, as do a host of small towns that should make this district quintessential Republican territory.

EDITORIAL: The week that was ...

( ) — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 08:45:00 -0000

The following are excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in the United States and abroad:

Editorial cartoon, April 3

( ) — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 15:42:00 -0000

Editorial cartoon, April 3.

EDITORIAL: Obama's 'taxing' nominees

( ) — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 08:45:02 -0000

Thursday's Senate confirmation hearing for Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius to serve as Health and Human Resources secretary barely touched on the fact that she is part of an interesting club: Obama nominees who failed to fully pay their taxes.

EDITORIAL: DOJ's Senate seat

( ) — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 08:45:00 -0000

The Justice Department admitted Wednesday that its career prosecutors acted improperly in the prosecution that drove Senator Ted Stevens from office last fall. Indeed, the trail was was so tainted that we can't independently assess the verdict against Mr. Stevens, but one thing is clear: Federal prosecutors are guilty of misconduct that cost Republicans a Senate seat.

EDITORIAL: A lost shepherd

( ) — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 08:45:00 -0000

In what is being called a victory for Islamism, the Anglican Church's only ethnically Asian bishop is stepping down. The Right Reverend Dr. Michael Nazir-Ali, bishop of Rochester, announced that he is retiring next September in order to work on behalf of "endangered or beleaguered Christian minorities."