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EDITORIAL: Growing terror threat in Pakistan
Pakistan is a headache for the West, with its 185 million Muslims suffering a fragile combination of its military, the only viable national institution (civil Punjabi elite descended from British India) and a growing threat of Islamic terrorists. That balance may be coming unhinged, and then a bigger headache. Chaos in Pakistan would threaten further mischief in the 1.3-billion ummah, the Islamic world stretching from Zamboanga in the southern Philippines to Dakar in West Africa. Published June 10, 2015
Wounded Warrior Caregiving Hero: Meet Elizabeth Rotenberry
Elizabeth Rotenberry always knew Chuck was her soul mate: ever since their first date in high school, his humor and love for family stole her heart. Published June 9, 2015
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: National leaders deserve encouragement
American citizens ought to be more encouraging and less critical of local and national leaders. Increasingly, the majority of criticisms directed at those in positions of leadership have not been constructive, but destructive. Most are rooted in ignorance, jealousy, envy, hatred, phobias, and many types of isms. To the proud originators of destructive criticism, the words of President Theodore Roosevelt are most applicable. Published June 9, 2015
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Obama’s convenience ‘Judaism’
When a pathological liar tells a whopper, he does it in spades. Now President Obama has become a 'convenience Jew,' just like Sen. Chuck Schumer, New York Democrat, and the rest ("Obama's boast: 'I am the closest thing to a Jew that has ever sat' in the Oval Office," Web, June 2). Published June 9, 2015
EDITORIAL: Countdown for Obamacare
Nobody, not even a president, can safely assume that he knows how the U.S. Supreme Court will decide a case before it, but President Obama surely sounds worried that the high court is about to unravel his health care scheme. The case before the court, King v. Burwell, is one of the two most anticipated before the court takes a recess at the end of June. The other is about whether the states and not the federal government can regulate marriage. Published June 9, 2015
EDITORIAL: Scott Walker asks why state university professors get lifetime job
Scott Walker, in hot pursuit of the Republican nomination for president, knows no fear of sacred cows. He is attempting to reform the concept of permanent faculty appointments at Wisconsin's publicly financed universities. The governor wants to repeat his earlier surprising victory in which a conservative chief executive in a very blue state took on the increasingly powerful and increasingly political teachers' unions, and trimmed their empty sails. Published June 9, 2015
Wounded Warrior Caregiving Hero: Meet Melissa Johnson
Melissa wants others to know that it takes great effort for military caregivers to be strong and resilient. Published June 8, 2015
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Spying — but not where it matters
Radical Islam is forcing the United States into succumbing to the threat of terrorism. In the interest of national security (or so says the Congress and the Obama administration), the telephone companies will be holding mass-collected telephone data from you and me pursuant to the U.S. Freedom Act. Published June 8, 2015
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: U.S. anti-ISIS fight toothless
We have become accustomed to Congress members complaining that the actions taken against the Islamic State are halfhearted, or worse, ineffective. They are correct. Far too few attacks have been undertaken against the terrorist group, and even with these limited numbers too many planes return without having dropped their bombs because of the ultra-restrictive rules of engagement. Published June 8, 2015
EDITORIAL: Islamists defeated in Turkish elections
The results of the Turkish election are almost too good to be true. Published June 8, 2015
EDITORIAL: EPA finds fracking does not cause widespread harm to drinking water
It's a "man bites dog" story, but with a modern twist: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has found that fracking does not cause widespread harm to America's drinking water. In an era when there seems to be no end to left-wing prosecution of innovators for the "rape of Mother Earth," who would have expected a verdict of "not guilty?" Published June 8, 2015
Wounded Warrior Caregiving Hero: Meet Precious Goodson
Precious Goodson, like many military caregivers, had to make a decision most people will never have to make — to retreat from the world they know and enter a totally different environment, leaving behind most everything familiar that brought comfort and balance to their lives. Published June 7, 2015
EDITORIAL: Magna Carta turns 800 this week
Some anniversaries are important, some are remembered and some are forgotten. One of the most important anniversaries in the history of Western civilization that must not be forgotten will be marked this week for the 800th time. The rights derived from the Magna Carta, by which the Constitution lives, guard the lives of every American. Published June 7, 2015
EDITORIAL: Obamacare on the critical list
The future of Obamacare teeters, waiting for a decision by the U.S. Supreme Court, and many Americans are concerned over budget-breaking rate increases in their health insurance coming in 2016. Proposed rates from major insurance companies look to be arriving on a runaway train and those Americans appear to be tied up and lying across the tracks. This was not the way President Obama promised it would be. Published June 7, 2015
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Taiwan’s peace initiative a good deal for all
Contrary to your recent editorial, Republic of China (Taiwan) President Ma Ying-jeou's South China Sea Peace Initiative (SCSPI), which calls on parties concerned to shelve territorial disputes in favor of the joint exploitation of natural resources in the South China Sea, did not walk Taiwan "into a trap" that "fits into Beijing's strategy" ("Face-off in Singapore," May 29). Quite to the contrary, Mr. Ma's peace initiative will provide the necessary framework to avoid any real trap, namely the trap of ever-increasing tensions among South China Sea claimants and the associated risks such tensions entail. Published June 7, 2015
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Hillary Clinton’s chance shot
Hillary Clinton's main problem in her long-term campaign to become president is having that heavy monkey on her back that is impossible to shake off: Bill Clinton, the impeached and disgraced former president. Published June 7, 2015
EDITORIAL: Greek bailout saga continues
If this is Friday in Athens, there must be another deadline. The Greek government is supposed to redeem more loans from the International Monetary Fund. In theory, Athens should be able to sell bonds and come up with the cash. But the European Central Bank, acting as the sheriff for members of the euro monetary union, won't issue the bonds until Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras agrees to a new round of austerity measures. Even at astronomical rates of interest, the private banks aren't interested in buying the bonds. Published June 4, 2015
EDITORIAL: IRS plagued by scandal, inefficiency
Americans guard their privacy jealously, as they should, and defend their property with their lives, sometimes foolishly. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has infringed both privacy and property with a lengthy list of taxpayer abuses. Few instances, though, are more damaging than the loss of the personal information of more than 100,000 taxpayers to the depredations of hackers. The government has fundamentally violated its covenant with the governed, and the revenuers answer for it with more excuses. Published June 4, 2015
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Not all Okinawans want U.S. base
Robert Eldridge accuses the supporters of Okinawa Governor Takeshi Onaga, who was recently in Washington to appeal the Okinawa issue, by saying they do not represent "all Okinawa" at all because "Okinawan public opinion is very much divided" ("The other side to the Okinawa story," Web, May 31). Sure enough, there is a right-wing fringe group in Okinawa that is viscerally pro-U.S.-military-presence, pro-Henoko-relocation and pro-revisionism. Mr. Eldridge is closely associated with this group. He is even a hero among them. Published June 4, 2015
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Where is HSBC outrage?
I can't believe I'm reading more bad news coming from HSBC, perhaps the most corrupt bank in the history of the world. After paying a record $2-billion fine a few years ago for money laundering to murderous drug cartels and terrorists, the banking giant, federal prosecutors are now saying, could still be committing these illegal, anti-American acts ultimately designed to kill innocent Americans. Published June 4, 2015
