An editorial / By Dale McFeatters, Scripps Howard News Service
Editorial: Throwing TARP over the deficit
The deficit for the federal fiscal year ending Sept. 30 was an astounding $1.42 trillion, $958 billion in red ink more than the short-lived record set the previous year. And there doesn't seem to be much outlook for improvement.
Editorial: For $20 no child gets left behind
It's too bad Rosewood Middle School in Wayne County, N.C., wasn't allowed to go ahead with its planned fundraiser. The results might have proved fascinating.
Editorial: Fort Hood's Hasan should have aroused suspicion
The suspect in the Fort Hood shootings, it turns out, exhibited telltale warning signs that something was amiss, but none of them seemed alarming enough to prompt authorities to act. The killings at the Texas base should lower that threshold.
Editorial: It's the Senate's turn now on health care
So now health-care reform rests on the shoulders of the Senate and in the hands of Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid.
The House did its part, passing a plan that would extend health insurance to 36 million Americans, requiring those who can afford it to buy coverage and subsidizing those who can't. The cost over the first 10 years is estimated at $1.2 trillion.
Editorial: Veterans Day, 2009
The first Armistice Day on Nov. 11, 1919, marked the one-year anniversary of the end of World War I, what many proclaimed, with an optimism that turned out to be wildly misplaced, "the war to end all wars."
Editorial: Welcome to America. That'll be $10
Even though more people want to visit the States than the U.S. can handle, the federal government is planning a $10 fee on visitors that will be used to attract even more of them.
Editorial: A number to keep Obama up at night
This week's number that President Barack Obama needs to worry about is not two, the number of governorships the Democrats lost on Tuesday. It is 10.2 percent, the unemployment rate for October announced Friday by the U.S. Department of Labor.
Editorial: Uncle Sam wants fewer fat cells, more gray cells
For a look at the state of America's youth, there's probably no better resource than the U.S. military, which examines thousands of them every year to fill its recruitment goals.
Editorial: Uncle Sam wants fewer fat cells, more gray cellls
For a look at the state of America's youth, there's probably no better resource than the U.S. military, which examines thousands of them every year to fill its recruitment goals.
Editorial: Iranian protestors hijack anti-U.S. day
A funny thing happened on the way to Iran's annual celebration -- this year was the 30th anniversary of its takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. As usual, a pro-government crowd trooped to the site of the old embassy and dutifully chanted,"Death to America" and burned a few U.S. flags.
