This letter is in response to the March 3, 2008 editorial by JoAnn Johnson, chairman of the National Credit Union Administration, defending the agency’s ongoing rulemaking regarding the conversion of a credit union to the mutual savings bank charter. The editorial was titled: “Why NCUA Has Focused On The Rights...
O. Ricardo Pimentel, editorial page editor, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: "So, the CIA destroyed tapes of some detainees being subjected to enhanced interrogation techniques to protect the identity of undercover agents. Hmm. They've got stuff in the intelligence world to read license plates from satellites, yet they can't fuzz up faces...
TIME TO ACT Congress, Bush must agree on funding for Alzheimer's Now is the time for the government to meet its responsibility to help the 5 million Americans suffering from Alzheimer's disease. It's time to find ways to protect the lives...
FUEL ECONOMY STANDARDS Congress can't lump cars, trucks in same mandate There's a battle going on in Congress today that not many people are aware of, yet the result could have a devastating impact on a huge component of America's economy....
Los Angeles Times, in an editorial: "It's unrealistic to expect attorney general nominee Michael Mukasey to publicly repudiate the administration's position that there are interrogation techniques short of torture that the CIA can employ without violating U.S. or international law or an executive order issued in July. But waterboarding, a...
Seeing red Heated rhetoric hampers regional reconciliation Just when you think the thaw might finally come, the Cold War between Pueblo and Colorado Springs over water issues seems to get frostier, thanks, this time, to a Pueblo Chieftain editorial that last week compared Colorado...
The Dallas Morning News, in an editorial: "Nobody, except our enemies, is happy with the 3,600-plus U.S. death toll. ... But just because key Republicans, including Sens. Pete Domenici and Richard Lugar, are ending support for the administration's troop-surge strategy does not mean that the Democratic plan for a pullout...
Forum writer Joel P. Engardio clearly illustrates why Jehovah's Witnesses are often on the receiving end of hostility. Jehovah's Witnesses regularly engage in deception to get people to believe they are not really a cult but just a branch of Christianity ("Opening the door for us all," The Forum, May...
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, in an editorial: "President Bush moved quickly Tuesday to veto the bill to set a timetable for withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq and to provide additional financing for the war. The House of Representatives, as expected, failed to muster the votes Wednesday to override. ... Matters have...
The Washington Post, in an editorial: "President Bush is entitled to replace his U.S. attorneys; he'd be entitled to do so if he thought they weren't pursuing his prosecutorial priorities with sufficient vigor, or even if he just wanted to give other lawyers a shot at the jobs. The many...
We interrupt this editorial to bring you the following announcement: Daylight-saving time arrives this weekend, three weeks early, thanks to a 2005 act of Congress designed to save energy. Congress seems to have picked a fitting year. The Academy Awards, which have been held as late...
WASHINGTON AFP — Major US media were skeptical over President George W. Bush's appeals for bipartisanship, noting that in his State of the Union speech he said nothing about changing his deeply unpopular Iraq policy. Bush delivered his speech for the first time in six years to a Congress controlled...
I AM a proud military wife. My husband is in the Navy reserves, after 10 years of active duty. Both my father and brother are retired Air Force. I was brought up military and married military. I've often wondered why actors and athletes make...
Thanks for the editorial "As new Congress organizes, Pelosi backslides on ethics." The public and the media need to remember politicians' pledges and hold them accountable (Nov. 17). When House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi boldly pledged to make this the most ethical Congress ever, I couldn't help but roll my...
SYDNEY AFP — The world's press homed in on the war in Iraq and a scandal-plagued Republican Congress as the crunch issues that shaped the US mid-term elections which saw the Democrats sweep to power. In Australia and Britain, both stalwart partners in the US-led coalition in Iraq, commentators said...
LONDON AFP — The war in Iraq and a scandal-hit Republican Congress are the key issues that shaped the US mid-term elections in which Democrats swept to power, according to the world's press. In Europe, British newspapers picked up on Bush's admission of the part played by the conflict in...
The Miami Herald, in an editorial: "The Bush administration's decision this week to invoke the Geneva Conventions for the treatment of terrorist suspects in U.S. military custody should be cheered by civil libertarians and all who cherish the rule of law. It took only two Supreme Court decisions and years...
The Sacramento Bee, in an editorial: "Before he went to Congress, Tom DeLay was a pest-control operator in suburban Houston. He never forgot his vocational roots. DeLay relied on the art of political extermination as he clawed his way through the Republican ranks to become House majority leader, and it...
WASHINGTON, March 27 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Citizens Against Government Waste CAGW today named Sen. Larry Craig (R-Idaho) and Rep. Mike Simpson (R-Idaho) Co-Porkers of the Month for their editorial "Earnest Earmarks," which portrays earmarking as a proper exercise of Congress's constitutional spending power and a check on the growth of...
Where is it? ask the phone calls, e-mails and left-leaning bloggers.What are you waiting for? Where's what? The Inquirer editorial calling on George W. Bush to resign, that's what. Or one calling for him to be impeached. People are peppering me with those questions because of something...
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