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EDITORIAL: U.S. government’s compromised cybersecurity
We can add cybersecurity to the list of things Washington can't seem to handle. Given the enormous dimensions of recent data breaches suffered by keepers of federal employee records, it's apparent that the government's barriers to hackers are about as airtight as a screen door would be on a submarine. Americans working for the government shouldn't have to worry that their personal information is scrutinized by their counterparts in Beijing. Trust is a two-way street, and a government that compromises the privacy of its own hardly deserves trust. Published June 29, 2015
EDITORIAL: ISIS Observing Ramadan with murder
Ramadan is Islam's period of religious reflection and observance, but this year, radical Muslims are making it a ritual of mayhem and murder. An outburst of attacks on innocents last week killed dozens. Traditionally a time of fasting to honor the Prophet Muhammad's first revelation of the Koran, the Islamic holy book, this year the leader of the Islamic State called his followers to make the month-long holiday a "calamity for the infidels." Ramadan comes to an end on July 17, but the killing almost certainly won't. Published June 29, 2015
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: In 2016, Republican president only way out
President Obama is making it painfully clear that he will leave a monarchial legacy of social, political and economic pain, severely diminished national security and racial discontent. Indeed, if elected, Hillary Clinton would leave a similar legacy, including gender discontent. Published June 28, 2015
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Hillary Clinton, Obama treat Charleston as campaign stop
When President Obama came forth to condemn the recent slayings at a Charleston church, he delivered a political statement about guns, in effect making the situation about his agenda and disregarding the feelings of the families who were suffering a great loss. Hillary Clinton did the same thing, crafting her public comments about the atrocity in order to serve her own purposes. These two narcissists acted like children saying 'Look at me' instead of politicians giving thoughtful responses to mourners. Published June 28, 2015
EDITORIAL: The slanted journalism on NPR
Prime Minister David Cameron is a brave man. He has undertaken to take control and oversight of the prestigious BBC, the government broadcasting system, away from the arrogant elites and put the oversight into the hands of the people who pay for it. Published June 28, 2015
EDITORIAL: Supreme Court imposes sovereign whims
Five justices of the U.S. Supreme Court are clearly afflicted with the royalty disease. They imagine themselves to be the rightful heirs of Louis XIV of France, who famously declared himself to be the state — "l'etat c'est moi" — with no questions asked. The justices, like the king, think they can do anything they want. Published June 28, 2015
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: New public-safety ideas needed
The loss of nine innocent lives at a church Bible study on June 17 in Charleston begs for improved standards of safety at most indoor public assemblies. This should include social, church, political, educational and business events with an established threshold of 50 attendees or more. Published June 25, 2015
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Blank check for terrorists
It is bad enough that Sen. John McCain, Arizona Republican, Sen. Lindsey Graham, South Carolina Republican, and President Obama have unwittingly aided in the funding of various terrorist organizations, but now Mr. Obama wants to authorize people to send money to kidnappers in private deals ("Obama will allow the U.S. to negotiate directly with terrorists holding hostages," Web, June 24). Published June 25, 2015
EDITORIAL: Peace, wouldn’t it be wonderful?
We've got peace institutes, peace initiatives and even professors of peace. But the real thing remains elusive. We were told that would change with the election of "the peace president." A man of black and white parents, with one from the third world, would vanquish racial enmity, jealousy and envy. Such a man of vast intellect, steeped in enlightened liberalism, would end the wars imposed on a helpless world by American imperialism. Published June 25, 2015
EDITORIAL: ‘Call this law SCOTUS-care’
Obamacare lives, through the manipulation of the law and abuse of the language by Chief Justice John G. Roberts. A sloppily written health care law is rescued by a sloppily reasoned opinion, with Mr. Roberts, author of the opinion, suggesting that the law ordinarily couldn't survive judicial examination, but enabling 6.4 million Americans to continue to get subsidies prohibited by the act seems nevertheless a nice thing for the court to do. Published June 25, 2015
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: No more grandstanding senators
There are three problems with the Rand Paul "Fair and Flat" plan ("'Fair and Flat' cuts taxes for all for all," Web, June 22). Published June 24, 2015
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Other factors determine violence
Karl Rove presented a popular, contra-factual, deceptive statement when saying, "the only way to guarantee that we will dramatically reduce acts of violence involving guns is to basically remove guns from society," thereby implying repeal of the Second Amendment was required. However, a study completed a few years ago and published in the Harvard Journal of Law an Public Policy found that within the United States and across European countries, violent criminality and suicide were unrelated and often inversely related to gun ownership. Published June 24, 2015
EDITORIAL: Is there an immigration example in Canada?
Immigration continues to be the nation's most persistent headache. Everyone acknowledges it as Headache No. 1, but nobody has either the solution or even an effective headache powder. The masses keep crowding the border, and the politicians punt. Published June 24, 2015
EDITORIAL: Confederate flag backdrop for national lunacy
The mob is loose. The debate about race that naive and sometimes well-meaning people say the nation needed has descended into an evitable burst of midsummer madness. The Confederate battle flag that is said to have driven a nut case to commit wholesale murder has become merely the backdrop of national lunacy. The millions quail at the sight of the Stars and Bars, a bit of cloth for all that. You would think Marse Robert at Appomattox surrendered too soon. Published June 24, 2015
Wounded Warrior Caregiving Hero: Meet Debbie Sprague
The war came home with Chief Petty Officer Randy Sprague, but it lay buried deep in his psyche, releasing its damaging effects more than 30 years after his two combat tours in Vietnam. Published June 23, 2015
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Confederate flag removal would be insult
Like "political correctness," demanding the removal of the Confederate flag from the South Carolina capitol grounds is an attack on free speech "Lindsey Graham, Nikki Haley, Tim Scott call for removal of Confederate flag from S.C. capitol," Web, June 22). Published June 23, 2015
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Individuals, not Confederate flag, kill
After any tragedy it has become the norm for society to place the blame on some aspect that they may have control over. In the case of the murders of nine black parishioners in South Carolina, the blame is being placed on the Confederate flag. It's as if many think that if the Confederate flag hadn't been around, this murderous act would not have happened. Published June 23, 2015
EDITORIAL: Obama saving dictators Havana, Caracas
The Obama administration has been holding high-level talks with the Venezuelan dictatorship, this time in Haiti of all places, and that makes prudent men and women nervous. Washington's moral compass -- or whatever they're using for one at the White House -- has been spinning as if out of control, and pointing in odd directions. Published June 23, 2015
EDITORIAL: Senate has transformed Trans-Pacific trade bill into monstrosity
When the legislation granting "fast track" authority to the president to negotiate a trans-Pacific trade agreement moved toward an initial Senate vote earlier this year, we warily urged Republicans to suck it up and vote for it. No president can negotiate a broad trade agreement without such authority. Anyone who thinks such agreements, properly negotiated and correctly written, aren't to the benefit of the United States understands neither economics nor history. Published June 23, 2015
EDITORIAL: U.S., China relationship
Secretary of State John Kerry and Treasury Secretary Jack Lew sat down Monday with their Chinese counterparts at an annual meeting, as prescribed in an agreement made in 2009, to talk about bilateral co-operation in their relations. They meet this year amid growing differences. The transformation of the Chinese regime is a new worrying element in that relationship. Published June 22, 2015
