An editorial / By Dale McFeatters, Scripps Howard News Service
Editorial: Uncle Sam wants you -- and you and you
The federal government's contribution to ending the recession will be more than just stimulus money, bank bailouts and cash for clunkers. The federal government needs to begin hiring massive numbers of new workers over the next three years.
Editorial: Reconciling our deficit and China's surplus
The G-20 economic summit in Pittsburgh Thursday and Friday comes at an awkward time for the United States. Next week the federal government's fiscal year comes to an end, and when it does Uncle Sam will have run a budget deficit of $1.58 trillion, more than tripling the previous record deficit of $455 billion.
Editorial: Obama's war
Even before he became president, Barack Obama made the war in Afghanistan his own priority.
Editorial: Intercepting Iran's missile threat
Obama administration critics have portrayed the president's decision to scrap a Bush-era program to install a missile defense system in Eastern Europe in the worst possible light.
Editorial: The Gang of Six -- finally -- has a bill
The best thing about Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus' health-care bill, the result of months of agonizing deliberations by the so-called "Gang of Six" senators, is that it may actually be affordable.
Editorial: Czarist Washington
No question about it. The number of "czars" in government has proliferated under President Barack Obama and has provided a rallying point for his Republican opposition.
Editorial: Next time, try throwing a shoe
The meltdowns seem to come in bunches.
Serena Williams busting her racket and threatening a judge at the U.S. Open. Kanye West crashing the stage at the MTV awards and wresting the microphone away from honoree Taylor Swift.
And perhaps most notably Rep. Joe Wilson's outburst at Barack Obama's address to a joint session of Congress when he shouted, "You lie!" at the president.
Editorial: U.S. and Iran will come to the table
The Obama administration has said the United States will participate with five other nations in formal talks with Iran over its nuclear program now that Iran seems finally willing to discuss it.
Editorial: Obama should back up tough talk on Wall Street
The Associated Press account of the president's lecture to Wall Street begins:" "President Barack Obama sternly warned against returning to reckless and unchecked behavior that had threatened the nation with a second Great Depression."
Or else what?
Editorial: Obama flinches on free trade issue
This didn't take long. Late Friday President Obama imposed punitive tariffs on Chinese-made lower price tires and by Sunday China had announced it was considering tit-for-tat tariffs on imports of U.S. chicken and auto products.
