An editorial / By Dale McFeatters, Scripps Howard News Service

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

You did remember that you are to fall back this weekend, didn't you?

Daylight Saving Time ends this weekend, at 2 a.m. Sunday morning. You need not get up for it. Setting the clocks back one hour can be done the night before or the morning after. Your call entirely.

While the economy is recovering, we as a nation have still not recovered our swagger, at least judging by this Halloween.

It looks like the Obama administration will get a much needed do-over in Afghanistan, buying the White House more time to complete its strategic review and mull over Gen. Stanley McChrystal's request for up to 40,000 more troops.

For the first time since benefits were linked to the Consumer Price Index in 1975, Social Security recipients will not get an automatic increase because of a cost-of-living adjustment.

Aside from emitting no pollution, electric and hybrid cars emit no noise, either, and that, in the opinion of safety experts is a problem. Pedestrians can't hear them coming. In one test, a hybrid operating on battery mode was inaudible to people until it was only seven feet away.