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Fri, September 22, 2023 | 04:34

Iranian navy is coming. Hooray!

Much to Iran's annoyance, the U.S. has been throwing its considerable weight around the Persian Gulf with its giant carrier battle groups and an 11-nation naval exercise scheduled for next month to show Tehran what awaits should it try to close the Straits of Hormuz.

2012-09-09 17:07

Are executions good for society?

A senior Cheong Wa Dae official last week stated, “There should be discussions on whether executions can deter crimes first. There should be a social consensus to resume carrying out the death penalty.”

2012-09-09 17:04

Muddying tenure at Calif. universities

It may seem self-evident, but it's nevertheless a matter of state law that teaching is an "essential responsibility," along with research, for members of the University of California's faculty and "a primary responsibility" for those in the California State University system.

2012-09-07 17:07

Bill Clinton’s irrepressible, and he's back

At times, Bill Clinton can be a risky proposition. He can be intemperate, self-involved, chronically late and nearly always prone to talking too long.

2012-09-07 17:04

Despite Arab Spring, women’s repression continues

Predicting history is more than a bit of a crapshoot. But I had it right when I speculated what last year's Arab Spring would bring.

2012-09-07 16:57

Islands of nationalism

BEIJING ― If the recent tension between China and Japan over disputed islands in the East China Sea is any indication, relations between the world’s second and third largest economies will not be smooth for some time to come, despite ever-increasing bilateral trade and investment. That is because the latest rush by both countries to affirm their sovereignty over the islands ―...

2012-09-07 16:56

Party platform quickly passed, quickly forgotten

Unnoticed in the flush of great speeches that opened the Democratic convention was that the delegates passed the party’s platform. It is a safe bet that the delegates probably could not have passed a true-or-false test on its contents. Similarly with the Republicans.

2012-09-06 16:26

Empty-chair leadership doesn’t sit right

Empty-chair leadership doesn’t sit right

The Democrats are hysterical to the point of waging a war on the elderly, or at least on 82-year-old Clint Eastwood, who gave us a lasting image of President Barack Obama at the GOP convention. He is an empty chair, the filmmaker suggested, though just how empty was something we learned earlier in a speech by former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

2012-09-06 16:20

Korea-Japan: enough is enough!

Korea-Japan: enough is enough!

Enough is enough! Obviously, the political leadership in Tokyo and Seoul never learned about the First Rule of Holes: when you find yourself in one, stop digging. Each side seems to be going out of its way to make a bad situation worse, even while providing private assurances that it won't let the situation get too far out of hand.

2012-09-06 16:20

Question of ‘better off’ finally gets answered

A standard line of political attack in economically troubled times has been this question, first sprung by Ronald Reagan in his successful 1980 campaign against President Jimmy Carter: "Are you better off now than you were four years ago?"

2012-09-05 16:59

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