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Mon, October 2, 2023 | 14:06

Iran or Israel worthy of censure?

Iran or Israel: which is more deserving of censure? On the one hand, as the French news agency, Agence France-Presse, reported last week, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is calling Israel "a cancerous tumor" which, he threatened, will "soon be excised." He added: "The nations of the region will soon finish off the usurper Zionists ... With the grace of God and help of t...

2012-08-27 16:58

Is Republican Party anti-science?

WASHINGTON ― Recent events have caused speculation that the current Republican Party is anti-science.

2012-08-26 16:42

Prince Harry: why it’s called a ‘special relationship’

Really, we Americans should kick in a little something to help support the British royal family since we get so much fun out of them.

2012-08-26 16:40

The rich, the poor and the hungry

The rich, the poor and the hungry

Two months ago, the United States Department of Agriculture forecast the biggest maize (corn) harvest in history: 376 million tonnes. After two months of record heat and drought in the U.S. Midwest, it has dropped its forecast to 274 million tonnes. So by early July it was predicting that the price per bushel of maize would exceed $8 for the first time in history, and it’s no...

2012-08-26 16:38

Assisted suicide should be an option

My uncle got a lucky break last week ― literally. He got up in the middle of the night and, enfeebled at 81 years of age, he fell, hitting his head on a desk and breaking his skull. Later the next night he died, having never regained consciousness.

2012-08-24 17:07

GOP platform committee forgets the ‘forgotten war’ in Afghanistan

While the Republican Party platform committee was endorsing sexual abstinence education, the Pentagon was announcing that the 1,972nd U.S. soldier had died in Afghanistan.

2012-08-24 17:06

Mexico is a Vietnam War next door

MEXICO CITY ― I have been looking for a book I used as a first-year graduate student at the University of Oregon. It was a philosophical treatise, not light reading, titled "Explanation," used by Professor Joseph G. Jorgensen in his anthropological methods course.

2012-08-24 17:02

French still passionate for American entertainment

French still passionate for American entertainment

PARIS ― One of the more common misperceptions in transatlantic relations is the near instinctive knee-jerk comment that the French don’t like Americans. That is unless you overlook much of the music on French radio which is American, a considerable segment of prime time TV are American programs, and a majority of the box office movie hits are produced in Hollywood ranging f...

2012-08-24 17:00

Iran stupidly restricts women students

Rarely does a country make a conscious decision to dumb itself down. But it happens. Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge. China during Mao's Great Leap Forward. Japan under the 2 1/2 centuries of the Edo period.

2012-08-23 16:52

Time for Obama to get serious about debt

If it's minor, if it's petty, if it's nothing at all to worry about, President Barack Obama is concerned, focused and ready to speak out loud and clear, as on the question of Mitt Romney's tax returns. We've got to have them, going way back and then some, for how, after all, is the nation otherwise going to survive?

2012-08-23 16:50

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