US Editorials
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Israel stunned by Hawking snub
It is an event "of cosmic proportions", said one Palestinian academic, a befitting description of Stephen Hawking's decision to boycott an Israeli academic conference slated for next June. It was also a decisive moral call which was communicated by the Cambridge University, where Hawking is a professor, on May 8. Hawking is a world-renowned cosmologist and physicist. His scientific work had ...
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Herald Poll Boy Scouts vote to allow gay members
The Boy Scouts of America officially changed their policy this week -- allowing gay scouts to become members, while keeping a ban in place ...
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Interstate 5 bridge collapse
A section of the Interstate 5 in Mount Vernon collapsed Thursday. Hovercrafts search the Skagit River for survivors below. (Dean Rutz / The Seattle Times) It seems obvious that, if we're going to keep our old, obsolete bridges and continue to repair them, we had better find a way for heavy rigs to be routed somewhere else and isolate and dedicate these bridges for cars only ["Stunning ...
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President Obama restricts drone use
Conservatives are upset with President Obama's attempt to wind down the so-called war on terror ["President sets restrictions on drone policy," News, May 24]. They feel that no effort should be spared in keeping our country safe from terrorist attacks, even while acknowledging that nothing we can do will guarantee that it won't happen again. It's funny that they ...
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Words Of Wisdom For The Graduating Class Of Moore Okla.
With a city still in shambles from a deadly tornado, high school students in Moore, Okla., are graduating Saturday. High school students in Moore, Okla., will graduate on schedule Saturday, 6 p.m. at the convention center. Even more than usual, high school graduates in Moore may feel that this is a week in which they have, as the phrase from Corinthians says it, "put away ...
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Movie Review
True Crime
Call Bob Dole because it looks like he's out of a job. Yep, no more need for him to appear on TV to discuss the virtues of modern medicine and its ability to improve the sexual lives of aging men because Clint Eastwood's new film, "True Crime," can double as a Viagra infomercial. Although Eastwood is 69 and looks about 10 years older, his investigative reporter character has recently lost his job ... ...
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Sole Survivor Iraq Rescue Mission Ended In Tragedy
In our latest installment of the StoryCorps Military Voices Initiative, we hear from Lance Cpl. Travis Williams. In 2005, while serving in Iraq, Williams and his 12-man squad came under attack. He was the only ...
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IRS leaders had plenty of opportunities to come clean
The following editorial appeared in Friday's Washington Post:Why didn't Congress know earlier that the Internal Revenue Service had targeted conservative groups for special scrutiny? In days of hearings, lawmakers have tried to get a satisfactory answer from witnesses under oath. They haven't succeeded.According to a Treasury Department inspector general's report, Lois ...
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Letters My View irresponsible
Publishing information in your paper that seeks to attribute the MMR vaccine to autism is grossly irresponsible and destructive. The link stated by Cindy Pokezwinski in this piece is not based in scientific fact ("MMR vaccine caused my son's autism," May ...
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Letters Fair Tax and the IRS
Recent news regarding the IRS targeting certain political groups and their members for harassment via tax-exempt applications and tax return audits provides further reason why we the people should vote to disband the ...
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Can Obama walk the walk on terror policy
newly restrained vision of the way the nation fights terror is an important and necessary recalibration that acknowledges the long-term nature of the battle this country is fighting.We were glad to see the president articulate a narrowing of the use of unmanned drone attacks abroad, and that he remains open to the notion of a "drone court," which would provide oversight for drone ...