This latest string of violent incidents resulting in death and malice should serve as a wakeup call to the government, military and all security...

Mr. Cheney caused the usual head-shaking among the former vice president's usual critics, but it is hard to argue with his vision. The world did need to be remade after the Sept. 11 attacks, and it's...

Gov. Robert F. McDonnell yesterday unveiled his plan to privatize Virginia's state-run liquor empire. It's a big business. Residents drank a healthy $322 million worth of distilled spirits last year,...

Obama officials claim government "stimulus" spending and trillions in deficits saved America from higher unemployment and a depression. Their numbers have been spun too much and don't add up.From...

While Senator Boxer's support of C-17 is laudable, she is hardly a singular voice expressing profound objection to termination of this inarguably indispensable airlifter built by 702 suppliers in...

Few Minnesotans look forward to winter, but this year could be different given our fits of frustration over the state's other main season -- road construction. Seldom has driving been harder than...

Democracy is messy,'' was Carol Becker's comment to me as she left the Star Tribune building last fall. It was the parting shot in the disagreement between us that had begun that afternoon during the...

Burcum argues that the results of the vote sent a message "to any official weighing serious structural changes to enhance efficiency." Again, this is simply not true. We have been working...

MEXICO CITY -- On Nov. 2, Californians will vote on Proposition 19, deciding whether to legalize the production, sale and consumption of marijuana. If the initiative passes, it won't just be...

In the spring of 1989, Richard M. Daley won the mayoralty of a frail city as it teetered between slow-motion decline and a renaissance more hoped-for than anticipated. Impatient, guileless and...

Know-nothings now endanger all Americans Florida pastor Terry Jones' threat to burn the Qur'an endangers not only American troops, as Gen. David Petraeus warns, but also American civilians working in...

While it is not illegal to hunt and kill radio-collared research bears, it is at least unethical ("Researcher near Ely says hunter killed one of his bears," Sept. 8). Research bears are...

Central trade unions called for a nationwide strike yesterday to protest against price rise, disinvestment, wastage in the public distribution system, non-implementation of labour laws et al. Once...

TOM Cross has put up a brave fight to hang on to his oil business, but it now looks like his only hope is getting the best possible price from his...

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If it approaches the aftermath in the correct way, the Catholic Church has an even better opportunity to strengthen the faith of its Scottish adherents as a result of the forthcoming Papal visit than...

Tax experts familiar with the travails of HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) in recent years say the expensive errors that have come to light in recent days were a matter of when, not if.More worryingly, we...

Afghan president Hamid Karzai might talk tough about dealing with endemic corruption that has weakened his country for so long, but tangible results have been hard to...

TO UNDERSTAND the minefield of school skirt lengths, you don't need to have your own daughters - but it helps. A teenage girl's reputation can hinge on the difference between nine centimetres above...

The pub is the heart of a community. The smoking ban has been a disaster for many pubs in Scotland and if we don't want a great many more to shut we need to find ways to accommodate smokers in a...

The concept itself had much to commend it. Both the thousands of overseas visitors it attracted and the resident Scots who came in support found much to praise. But the moral of the sobering report...

THE Scottish Football Association was right to condemn the booing of the Liechtenstein national anthem by sections of the Scotland fans at Hampden on Tuesday...

70 years to the month since it began. If Foreign Office belt-tightening has to go this far, one wonders which other broadcasts will survive, for there can be nowhere more in need of a radio station...

Imagine the boot on the other foot. Imagine a prime minister or an MP, infuriated by repeated press leaks or investigations, trying to find out the identity of a journalist's source. A good place to...

I n this election year Democrats in Congress have been trying mightily to paint Republicans as “the party of no.” At least when it comes to record federal spending and record deficits...

V oters have deep respect for politicians who are willing to stand up to members of their own party leadership, particularly when matters of honesty and accountability hang in the balance. Democratic...

West Virginia starting senior linebacker Pat Lazear, still nursing a leg injury he sustained during camp, has been ruled out of Friday's Marshall game by Mountaineers coach Bill Stewart. Lazear...

Taiwan continues without any reduction; deployments of advanced assets opposite the island have not eased; and the military balance continues to shift...

American Civil Liberties Union has discovered the right to life. Seriously. The ardently pro-abortion organization declares in its Aug. 30 lawsuit against...

A Southern Baptist preacher with a flock of 50 in Gainesville, Fla., decided to mark the ninth anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001, by lighting a fire that quickly circled the globe - with a public burning...

Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson , Texas Democrat, and the nepotism of her Congressional Black Caucus scholarship awards. After the Morning News exposed the fact...

The actions taken by San Francisco legislators to transform Happy Meals into "Unhappy Meals" have been reported widely. The new ordinance they have proposed mandates dramatic changes in the content...

Last month's quadripartite summit of Russia, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Tajikistan hosted by President Dmitry Medvedev at the Black Sea resort, Sochi, must have made South Block strategists sit up....

Held in Washington at the instigation of President Obama, the first direct talks between Israel, represented by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, and the Palestinians, represented by President...

The image of migrant workers freezing, living in squalor or demanding better pay and conditions is not typical in Sweden. Yet these are among the cases involving Asian workers who are spending the...

Fatima beamed broadly as she knelt in the mud outside her tent and filled two-year-old Reza Khan's baby bottle with milk. “Look, he's not crying anymore,” she said, as he sucked down the...

“Most of my time is spent in my room, French-plaiting other girls' hair,” said Rachael Burford, centre player in the England women's rugby team, over the weekend. No snide comments about...

tourism industry not been strong. India has a plethora of both heritage and natural beauty to offer. Inbound arrivals have gone up by 10 per cent in the first seven months of this year. This is not...

Indian army general in charge of J&K. The implication here is that those associated directly with Indian rule in J&K are not politically acceptable to China for visits even if they are travelling for...

Patna following the crisis was well-attended, with opposition outfits showing up as well. The situation requires the highest degree of consensus and concerted action. Talks with Maoists are welcome,...

China wants to be seen as the loong, which is a softer, entirely auspicious dragon-like being that is loathe to, in fact incapable of, breathing fire. These radically different perspectives were...

On August 30, India's second unmanned scientific mission to the moon, the Rs 425-crore Chandrayaan-2, slated for launch in 2013, a joint Indo-Russian flight,...

I t’s going to be all about taxes and spending in the upcoming gubernatorial race - no surprise there. Last night’s four-way televised debate merely confirmed what we all suspected. But...

Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel The man in the middle of all things presidential - especially the health care reform legislation in Congress right now - Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel. Katie Couric...

Pittsburgh and Allegheny County officials are working out final details of an agreement to merge their accounting systems in time to meet a Sept. 20 deadline. A deal for the city to replace its...

A federal grand jury has indicted a former customer of Dwelling House Savings & Loan Association in the Hill District on charges of defrauding the bank out of $1.1 million two years ago. Jammie...

A Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing hasn't stopped a New York lender from seeking to foreclose against the owner of the former Hilton Pittsburgh. In an emergency motion filed today in U.S. Bankruptcy...

Legislation now before Congress, the International Violence Against Women Act, would dramatically improve how the U.S. assists foreign governments and organizations in tackling violence against...

Wednesday, September 8, 2010 at 11:36 a.m. Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in the United States and abroad: Sept. 7 The Pueblo (Colo.) Chieftain on how federal health care...