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EDITORIAL: Canada or eurozone?
Fitch Ratings thinks the United States is still a AAA country, but its optimism disappeared this week. The credit evaluator downgraded the outlook for the U.S. economy to negative despite the recent bump in consumer spending and a slight improvement in employment numbers for November. It's hard to look at the inability of Congress to come up with credible spending cuts without a feeling of impending doom. Published December 1, 2011
EDITORIAL: The shadow war against Iran
Force is being used to attempt to halt Iran's nuclear weapons program. On Monday, an explosion rocked the city of Isfahan in western Iran, site of a conversion facility that prepares uranium for enrichment at other sites. Conflicting reports attributed the explosion to either an accident at a gas station or a military training incident, or they denied it even happened. Published November 30, 2011
Economy Briefs
The economy expanded at a slow-to-moderate pace in most areas of the country during the past two months, according to a Federal Reserve survey released Wednesday. A modest pickup in consumer spending, tourism and manufacturing drove the growth. Published November 30, 2011
Briefly: Africa
The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Wednesday charged former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo with murder, rape, persecution and inhuman acts, crimes allegedly committed as his backers fought brutal battles to keep him in power after last year's elections. Published November 30, 2011
World Scene
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' government narrowly dodged a full-blown cash crisis after Israel agreed Wednesday — under intense international pressure — to resume the transfer of $100 million a month in frozen tax funds. Published November 30, 2011
Sports Briefs
D.C. United bolstered their beleaguered defensive corps Tuesday, acquiring veteran right back Robbie Russell from Real Salt Lake for a third-round pick in the 2013 SuperDraft. Published November 29, 2011
Inside Politics
Published November 29, 2011
American Scene
A U.S. Marine awarded the nation's highest military honor is suing a defense contractor he says cost him a job by characterizing him as mentally unstable and having alcohol problems to a prospective employer. Published November 29, 2011
EDITORIAL: A climate of fraud
The latest release of 5,000 emails from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit (CRU) reconfirms what the 2009's "Climategate" files established: Global warming is more fiction than science. Published November 29, 2011
Economy Briefs
The court-appointed trustee overseeing MF Global Inc.'s liquidation has requested that an additional $2.1 billion be released from frozen customer accounts. Published November 29, 2011
Tuning in to TV
Jim Parsons seems to have gotten a big bang out of Broadway and wants to return. Published November 29, 2011
EDITORIAL: Debt dumps on Durban
It's time for the world's leftists to come up with a new scheme for spreading the wealth around from the rich to the poor. They had been counting on their global-warming ploy, but it is falling apart, a victim of economic reality. Published November 28, 2011
EDITORIAL: Bordering on defeat
The latest border incident with Pakistan underscores some unfortunate truths in the Afghanistan War. Pakistan remains a safe haven for insurgents, which makes military victory almost impossible. Islamabad is also unwilling to allow coalition forces to root out the Taliban and foreign fighters because they may, one day, come in handy. Published November 28, 2011
American Scene
A charity for at-risk children founded by a former Penn State assistant football coach now charged with molesting boys is telling its donors to give their money to the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape instead. Published November 28, 2011
American Scene
Another small earthquake was reported in the Oklahoma City area, the sixth since Thursday. Published November 27, 2011
Economy Briefs
Belgium's chief negotiator said Sunday the 2012 budget that he clinched after a world-record government stalemate will meet the demands of the European Union and hoped it would calm nervous markets. Published November 27, 2011
EDITORIAL: Time to stock up on light bulbs
Within four weeks, it will be a crime to manufacture a 100-watt version of Thomas A. Edison's brilliant invention. Thanks to a Democratic Congress and the signature of President George W. Bush in 2007, anti-industrial zealots at the Energy Department received authority to blot out one of the greatest achievements of the industrial age. They're coming for our light bulbs. Published November 26, 2011
EDITORIAL: No thanks to TSA
In good news for weary travelers, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has announced a cut back in the number of boys and girls it will grope over the holidays. The bad news is that agency bureaucrats made the same promise after last year's Turkey Day. It wasn't true then, either. Published November 26, 2011
EDITORIAL: Chu’d out
If only the administration's Solyndra scandal were a garden-variety case of crony-capitalist payback to political supporters. It's much worse, as President Obama's energy policy is fixated on solving the supposed global-warming crisis, regardless of the economic cost. Published November 24, 2011
EDITORIAL: Cain’s foreign policy
One of the digs at Ronald Reagan before he was president was that he lacked a keen grasp of foreign policy. The former actor and California governor had never had to grapple with those questions firsthand. Surely, critics argued, he couldn't match the abilities of people with real-world experience like George H.W. Bush or John Connally. Once in office, Reagan demonstrated that principle and vision could more than make up for inexperience. He had a good plan and stuck to it; the rest was just a matter of details. Published November 24, 2011
