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Video: Watch a sharpshooter hit her target 200 yards away … with a handgun!
Watch Amy Jane use a 9 MM Kahr handgun to hit a target a remarkable 200 yards away. Published May 14, 2015
EDITORIAL: Unlocking Yucca Mountain for nuclear waste
Harry Reid almost got away with wasting billions of the taxpayers' money on a big hole in the ground in his home state of Nevada. With the senator from Searchlight moving swiftly toward retirement, the enormous bunker beneath Yucca Mountain will soon be the needed storage bin for America's spent nuclear fuel. And not a day too soon. The radioactive waste has been accumulating for years at unsecured sites across the continent. Published May 14, 2015
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: John Hinckley must still pay
The judge who made the decision to allow would-be presidential assassin John Hinckley to enjoy periods of time away from confinement will almost certainly soon rule that Hinckley is to be a free man ("Judge considering life outside hospital for John Hinckley Jr., Ronald Reagan's shooter," Web, May 13). Published May 14, 2015
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Exercise doesn’t control weight
Whether obesity is an economic problem depends on how you have positioned yourself to capitalize on it ("For economy, U.S. obesity proves a weighty problem," Page I, May 14). If you are part of the diet, exercise, big food, big pharma, big agra or big research industries (to name just a few), then obesity is the goose that laid the golden egg. Published May 14, 2015
Wounded Warrior Caregiving Hero: Meet Izabelle Gibson
On days when Izabelle Gibson can pull her husband Alexandre out of bed, she starts his shower, lays out his clothes and retrieves his medications from a safe place. Published May 13, 2015
EDITORIAL: Benno the dog swallows bullets
Mike Huckabee knows Arkansas, even if he did once call it a banana republic, which infuriated some of the locals at the Rotary Club. The former governor gave his latest memoir the provocative title, "God, Guns, Grits and Gravy," which gets it just about right in the land of good times and the magic huckleberry. He left out only frog-gigging, a favorite natural sport. Published May 13, 2015
EDITORIAL: Congressional Republicans should vote for TPP
A filibuster led by Democrats derailed President Obama's request for the fast-track authority that would require the U.S. Senate to vote up-or-down on the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement. The negotiations, the filibuster and the fix the president has put himself in says everything about the differing Republican and Democratic positions on trade. It says a lot, too, about Mr. Obama's ineptitude in dealing his own congressional partisans. Published May 13, 2015
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Patriot’s cheating to win is losing
Respect. Honesty. Sportsmanship. Fair play. As professional athletics continue to proclaim these values, it becomes more difficult to explain their demise to children. Advising youngsters that cheaters who win are really losers — as these children witness ostensible professionals cheat their way to trophies and rings — makes it tough to direct those kids to the moral high ground in their own athletic endeavors. Published May 13, 2015
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: GOP must reject Bush wartime logic to win 2016
One of President George W. Bush's primary reasons for authorizing the invasion of Iraq in 2003 was to eliminate the threat of weapons of mass destruction (WMD). Bush's rush to war, known as Operation Iraqi Freedom, was criticized because no WMD ever were uncovered. Still, U.S. forces remained there (and then in Afghanistan) for years. Published May 13, 2015
Wounded Warrior Caregiving Hero: Meet Pam Busenius
"He was not the man I married," said Pam Busenius of her husband, Joe, when he returned from deployment in 2005 and left the Army after 17 years. Published May 12, 2015
EDITORIAL: Cubans try to control U.S. embassy in Havana
Barack Obama's romance with the Castro brothers is rapidly turning into a sour shack-up. That's what happens sometimes to romances under a tropic moon and the rustle of the coconut palms. Cuba wants to redefine the sanctity of embassies, and how they function. The public still doesn't know what concessions the president is making to keep a flame under the romance, but it doesn't sound good for our side. Published May 12, 2015
EDITORIAL: Jeb Bush holds ground on Common Core, immigration
Jeb Bush has grave differences with the Republicans who will nominate a candidate for president next summer in Cleveland -- differences on immigration, Common Core, and now on his brother's conduct of the war in Iraq. Mr. Bush winces at the notion that he's the "moderate" Republican that so many in his party think he is. Published May 12, 2015
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Climate needs both parties
I am saddened to watch both our state and federal governments continue to argue about climate change. It doesn't make sense to make the essentially permanent changes to the Earth's physics and chemistry that we are making without looking closely at this together, across political divides, with open eyes and open hearts. Published May 12, 2015
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Stop catering to absurd new stories
On the morning of April 25, CNN announced that a devastating earthquake had occurred in Nepal. At the time, there were only a 100 known deaths, but at a magnitude of 7.8 the impending doom was evident. What was even more astounding was that this story only received a couple of minutes' coverage. The main story, which was exploited for the next 10 minutes, was the Bruce Jenner interview with Diane Sawyer that had aired the previous night. Published May 12, 2015
Wounded Warrior Caregiving Hero: Meet Ivonne Thompson
It was a heart-wrenching fate that left Ivonne Thompson with a physically and mentally absent husband, and a son who has never talked with his dad, nor likely will. Published May 11, 2015
EDITORIAL: Iran’s human rights record
Hanging is a particularly gruesome method of dispatching the wicked and the addicted, largely abandoned by the civilized world, though it's true that electric chairs, gas chambers, poisoned hypodermic needles and even firing squads are hardly more civilized. Published May 11, 2015
EDITORIAL: Vietnam War myth survives in Pentagon commemoration
The Pentagon is out to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the end of the war in Vietnam, which invites new recriminations and the false story of what happened in Vietnam. There's already a bitter struggle over what to "celebrate" and how to do it. Published May 11, 2015
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Officer killings fault of race baiters
Two more police officers were murdered by rioters in Mississippi over the weekend. The number of law-enforcement officer killed by thugs keeps adding up. Published May 11, 2015
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Taiwan should be party to TPP
There are many good reasons for President Obama to scold Democrats on their trade-pact stance, but the president has yet to convince lawmakers that a regional free-trade agreement without Taiwan would be unthinkable ("Liberal opposition mounts to free-trade deal," 2, May 8). If this regional system is going to cover all 50-plus countries around the Pacific Rim, the absence of Taiwan will render the regional integration disadvantageous to American interests. Published May 11, 2015
Wounded Warrior Caregiving Hero: Meet Kimberly Dub
Most days in the Dub household, Kimberly Dub fills in empty spaces for her husband, Rob, who was diagnosed in 2010 with PTSD. ll. Published May 10, 2015
