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LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Social Security’s burden dump

Over the next 75 years Social Security is projected to pay out $159 trillion more in benefits than it will collect in taxes. How can we ever meet that deficit? Viewed differently, it is about 2.68 percent of Social Security payroll taxes, or accounting for the time value of money, a present value deficit just short of $11 trillion. If we increased payroll taxes from 7 percent to 9.68 percent, it is a done deal. Published February 25, 2016

Russian President Vladimir Putin listens to Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko making statements after their talks in Minsk, Belarus, Thursday, Feb. 25, 2016. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

EDITORIAL: A new Cold War beckons

Vladimir Putin's challenge to America and its allies in the Middle East and Central Europe, a challenge he made despite his fragile domestic economy, is nevertheless working. He's leading boldly from the front, not from behind. Published February 25, 2016

Argentina's President Mauricio Macri attends a press conference with Italy's Premier Matteo Renzi at the government in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2016. Renzi is on a two day official visit to Argentina. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

EDITORIAL: Renaissance in Argentina

With its incredible endowment of natural resources — some of the richest soil in the world, a variety of climates including a large temperate zone, oil, uranium and other minerals, enormous hydroelectric resources, a homogenous population of European descent — Argentina should be one of the world's most prosperous and stable societies. Published February 25, 2016

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Don’t encourage kids to hunt

Utah Gov. Gary Herbert should veto the decision by the state legislature to allow 12-year-olds to apply for hunting permits. We can't expect to stop youth violence while simultaneously teaching children to kill for entertainment or "sport" ("Legislature approves Utah hunting permits for 12-year-olds," Web, Feb. 21). Published February 24, 2016

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Clownish Donald Trump a bad deal

The art of the deal is all the rage this election season. Donald Trump has based all of his political aspirations on it. He roars from every podium on which he leans that the United States makes horrible deals. What we lack, he says, is the ability to win in the art of the deal. He claims that he will make amazing deals, the kind that will "make this country great again." He even wrote a book on the topic. Published February 24, 2016

President Barack Obama answers questions from members of the media during his meeting with Jordan's King Abdullah II in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2016. Obama urged the Republican-run Senate to fulfill its "constitutional responsibility" and consider his Supreme Court nominee, pushing back on GOP leaders who insist there will be no hearing or vote when he names a successor to the late Justice Antonin Scalia. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

EDITORIAL: Obama’s fearful pursuit of ‘peace’

Barack Obama is to nuclear deals as Charlie Brown to Lucy, with her elusive football snatched away to leave Charlie on his back. After missing badly last summer in his high-stakes game with Iran, the president has been played again, this time by the repressive North Korean regime armed with nuclear weapons. His Nobel Peace Prize was won with the rigged luck of the amateur. Published February 24, 2016

The front of the U.S. Supreme Court is seen early Friday, Feb. 19, 2016 in Washington. Republican opposition to letting President Barack Obama replace Antonin Scalia quickly sparked a constitutional clash over the president’s right to fill Supreme Court vacancies. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

EDITORIAL: Stopping an EPA land grab

The Supreme Court will decide Friday whether to review an appeals court decision enabling the most blatant federal land grab since the federal government broke a treaty with the Cherokee Nation to seize millions of acres of Cherokee land in Oklahoma at the end of the 19th century. The American Farm Bureau, an association of farmers, has sued the Environmental Protection Agency to restrain the agency from assuming the authority to say whether and how a farmer can plant crops on his own property. Published February 24, 2016

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Donald Trump’s un-Christian actions

I am perplexed as to how any Christian could support Donald Trump, who attacks anyone with the courage to criticize him, uses offensive language and has stated that his supporters are so loyal, he could shoot somebody on 5th Avenue in New York City and still not lose voters. I am appalled that 30 percent of evangelical voters in South Carolina voted for him, and I ask them to justify why they are supporting a person whose actions are so unchristian. Published February 23, 2016

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Immigration is privilege, not right

Why is the pope making judgments about our immigration policies and calling a border wall unkind and "not Christian" ("Pope Francis on Donald Trump: Anyone who wants border walls isn't Christian," Web, Feb. 18)? Doesn't the Vatican have walls, built for its own protection? Or is Vatican gold now up for grabs, and the churches left unlocked at night? Published February 23, 2016

Janine Santos holds her 3-month-old son Shayde Henrique who was born with microcephaly while health workers visit her home in Joao Pessoa, Brazil, Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2016. U.S. and Brazilian health workers knocked on doors in the poorest neighborhoods of one of Brazil's poorest states Tuesday in a bid to enroll mothers in a study aimed at determining whether the Zika virus is really causing a surge in birth defects. The teams started in Joao Pessoa, the capital of Paraiba state which is one of the epicenters of Brazil's tandem Zika and microcephaly outbreaks. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

EDITORIAL: Stopping Zika before it deforms millions

Disease, and how to deal with it, is the driving force of human history. It's all the more dreaded when its primary victims are children because without children there is no future. Though plagues and pandemics are largely scourges of the past, pestilence nevertheless persists. Published February 23, 2016

In this Nov. 21, 2013, file photo reviewed by the U.S. military, dawn arrives at the now closed Camp X-Ray at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba — a camp that was used as the first detention facility for al Qaeda and Taliban militants who were captured after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the U.S. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

EDITORIAL: Keep Guantanamo open

President Barack Obama is obsessed with transferring the 91 terrorists at Guantanamo Bay to prisons in the United States. They don't even have to promise to be good. He knows Congress won't let him do it, but he won't give it up. He renewed his plea Tuesday and the congressional reception was a firm, harsh "no." Published February 23, 2016

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: PC loophole for sex offenders?

I found Valerie Richardson's article, "Man undressing in women's locker room fuels drive to upend Wash. transgender rule" (Web, Feb. 18), highly amusing. The occurrence it details seems to slide without remark right past the issue of the potential consequences of a biologically male person (who claims to self-identify as transgender) 'just using' the women's locker room. Published February 22, 2016

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Candidate-call barrage off-putting

I am sure that I am not the only independent voter who is extremely annoyed by the relentless phone calls, recordings and surveys coming from those running for the office of U.S. president. Published February 22, 2016

In this Feb. 21, 2016, photo, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a campaign event in Atlanta. Trump has repeated inaccurate and racially-charged crime statistics, reposted pledges of support from white supremacists and retweeted dubious questions about the citizenship of his presidential rivals to an online following that includes more than six million people on Twitter alone. His response when challenged? To dismiss it all as nothing more than a harmless "retweet." (AP Photo/David Goldman)

EDITORIAL: Making the Donald famous again

"Winning isn't everything," decreed Vince Lombardi, the football legend for whom the Super Bowl trophy is named, "it's the only thing." In both football and politics, he caught the essence of competition. Americans exalt winners, whether on the gridiron or at the ballot box. The 2016 presidential election is the biggest game in town and to the victor goes the spoils of the toughest job in the world. Published February 22, 2016

The moon sets over flags atop the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: Chinese bring textiles back to South Carolina

When a Chinese textile mill announces that it's moving to South Carolina, that's news with nostalgia. For decades all the mills have been moving out of the United States, many to Asia. The coming mill is part of a growing Chinese investment in South Carolina, including a golf course and a $500 million automobile plant by Volvo, once a mainstay of the Swedish industrial economy, and now owned by the Chinese. Published February 22, 2016

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Obama, EPA’s land grab

Just after taking office, President Obama gave the Environmental Protection Agency executive marching orders that it has used to invoke its Waters of the United States (WOTUS) regulation. The regulation gives the EPA and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers complete control of the way in which all of the lands, private as well as public, can be used. Published February 21, 2016

President Barack Obama speaks during a Democratic Governors Association Meeting in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House campus in Washington, Friday, Feb. 19, 2016. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

EDITORIAL: Replacing Antonin Scalia: What’s at stake

The rules of the game have changed, and the first of the new rules is that there are no rules. The second is that a word once spoken lives forever somewhere on a digital cloud in the not-so-sweet by and by. Not all politicians have adapted to the scary reality. Some Democrats, for example, would like to hide from some of the words they spoke to derail the nomination of Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court in 2015. Published February 21, 2016

Pope Francis delivers his message from his studio window overlooking St. Peter's Square on the occasion of hishe Angelus noon prayer, at the Vatican, Sunday, Feb. 21, 2016. Francis told tourists and pilgrims in St. Peter's Square Sunday that he is proposing Catholic leaders should "make a courageous and exemplary gesture" and ensure that no convicted inmate is executed during the church's Holy Year of Mercy, which runs through Nov. 20. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

EDITORIAL: Pope Francis, Donald Trump public debate about faith

Is this a wild and wonderful presidential campaign, with entertainment for all, or what? Donald Trump keeps writing the script with surprise following shock following occasional thunderbolt. The Donald may be the first presidential candidate ever to take on the pope and emerge without scars. Pope Francis, after all, retreated before the Donald did. Published February 21, 2016