 Heroic Israeli leaders to decide on Iran attackSome of the people reading these lines will not live through the winter; some of them may not die a natural death.
If one is to believe the threats that are ramping up at warp speed, Israel will... | |
 Police hunt down Mexican drug cartel accusedMexican police have arrested Jose Antonio Torres Marrufo, who is alleged to have masterminded drug exportation and murders.
Marrufo, the supposed head of a Sinaloa drug cartel, has been accused by... |
| Banned terrorist outfits' activities will be hard to stop until Pak Army stops supporting them: Editorial The activities of banned terrorist outfits will definitely be a humongous task to stop because they were allegedly created and nurtured by Pakistan's military, an editorial has claimed.
Banned... |
| Greece's Epidemic of Racist Attacks I experienced the reality firsthand a week ago. I was interviewing Razia, an Afghan single mother, in the small apartment she shares with her three children in Aghios Panteleimonas square in Athens... |
| Europe’s Treatment of Minorities Endangers Our Core Values A core tenet of human rights is that they apply equally to everyone. But when it comes to ethnic minorities and migrants in Europe today, popular attitudes and political debate suggest otherwise. In... |
| Stop light rail, and here's how we pay David Osmek's commentary ("Stop the light-rail obsession," Feb. 2) was misleading, because he conveniently ignored the staggering costs of business as usual -- which seems to be his... |
| Editorial: Fact vs. fiction and illegal immigration The number of illegal immigrants in the United States has dropped notably during the Obama administration -- from a high of 11.9 million in 2007 to 11.2 million in 2010. That fact may be lost on... |
| A life of crime begets a life of crime, until ... LOS ANGELES The worst day of Sugar Bear's 55 years was one of the days -- there have been many of them -- when he got out of prison. In the early 1990s, in a prison where persons whose... |
| The onslaught is coming to a TV near you FactCheck.org , which tracks accuracy in political messaging, found that the "avalanche of negativity" in recent Florida ads also contained a fair share of distortions and outright lies. ... |
| Kathleen Sebelius: Contraception rule respects religion Today, virtually all American women use contraception at some point in their lives. And we have a large body of medical evidence showing it has significant benefits for their health, as well as the... |
| Editorial: Contraception mandate violates religious freedom Yet in drawing up the rules that will govern health care reform, the Obama administration didn't just cross that line. It galloped over it, requiring employers affiliated with the Catholic Church to... |
| MST leader: 'Let's build a people's ALBA' The World Social Forum meets in Caracas, 2009. From January 24-29, the Brazilian city of Porto Alegre was again the staging ground for the World Social Forum (WSF), an annual international gathering... |
| Bonuses: a culture in need of curbing | Editorial 5 February 2012 10:12PM Let's see if the Government is strong enough to deal with Network Rail...or will it weakly hide behind the excuse that it's predecessor allowed... |
| Column: With GOP debates, more is better "I think it's very harmful to Republicans because instead of the candidates presenting their views and their policies and their proposals, it's all gotcha," harrumphed Sen. John McCain, no primary... |
| Letters: Many resent privilege, and advantages it grants As a retired economics professor, I have seldom heard of anyone who begrudges self-made individuals. However, what no rational person can or should buy is privilege. Medved's statement that we... |
| Column: Give the Arab Spring time to fully bloom On ReligionFaith. Religion. Spirituality.... |
| Letters: Policy to employ only non-smokers is unfair We all agree that smoking isn't healthy, but neither is excessive drinking of alcohol or overeating. Does opposing view writer Paul Terpeluk, Cleveland Clinic's medical director of Employee Health... |
| Pitt wins fourth consecutive game with 79-70 victory against Villanova Tray Woodall scored a career high 29 points and Ashton Gibbs added 24 to lead Pitt to a 79-70 victory against Villanova this afternoon at the Petersen Events Center. The Panthers (15-9, 4-7) won... |
| Cotler’s plea on Syria The international community has justifiably expressed outrage over Saturday's veto by Russia and China of a UN Security Council resolution demanding that Syrian President Bashar Assad step... |
| Devils take down Penguins, 5-2 NEWARK, N.J. -- Ilya Kovalchuk scored one goal and assisted on two others to lead New Jersey to a 5-2 victory today over the Penguins at the Prudential Center. The loss was just the Penguins'... |
| A love that is all-consuming Krishna spells out the sure method to attain any goal that you have set for yourself in the Bhagwad Gita's ninth chapter. He tells Arjuna, "Give your mind wholly to me, be my devotee,... |
| 'Cricket seemed a neat way to talk about Sri Lanka' Please tell us about your book. The idea was basically a detective story about a drunk who's trying to track down a mysterious cricketer. I was working at the time as a copywriter in advertising... |
| The court strikes back telecom licences issued in 2008 by ex-telecom minister Andimuthu Raja has evoked several strong responses. One is a feeling of schadenfreude: glee that some companies have been stripped of their... |
| McKees Rocks police catch car jacker It took a high-speed chase, a pursuit on foot, and a scuffle, but two McKees Rocks police officers on routine patrol spotted a car jacking in progress and arrested a suspect. A news release from the... |
| The state of play, on the field and in D.C. (CBS News) I have a confession here. My expertise in Roman numerology goes to about 20 - once we go beyond XX, I have no idea what number we're talking about, so I couldn't tell you how... |
| Occupy Pittsburgh clearing out but some resist Some members of the grassroots movement known as Occupy Pittsburgh appear this morning to be pulling out of their encampment on BNY Mellon's property. Others appear determined to remain at the... |
| In Pittsburgh, two controversial cases reveal divide between the black community and the police November 1996: Brentwood police Officer John Vojtas looks away from protesters in front of the Allegheny County Courthouse, as he and his legal team cross Grant Street during a recess in now-Sgt.... |
| The Next Page / The poet and a farmer in Fredericksburg: Walt Whitman and my uncle in a Civil War hospital Using his uncle's Civil War diaries, Mark A. Miner chronicles how the not-yet-famous poet and his uncle overlapped in their service to wounded... |
| Editorial: Expats across Ditch get fair enough deal On the day that New Zealand is, or should be, most conscious of its national pride, it seems timely to suggest we should stop pleading for instant access to Australian social welfare. Every time the... |
| Ben Stein: Wealth and misery in the news (CBS News) News takes on deeper meaning when you put a human face on the statistics. Here's Ben Stein: A few days ago when I opened the newspaper the news was so strange that it made my head... |
| Editorial: No need to sign petition to initiate recall election for Laurance Anyone who is asked to sign a petition to force a recall election for Douglas County Commissioner Joe Laurance should think about the consequences of... |
| Why Do We Love The Giants? It's All Psychology New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning warms up before the NFC championship game against the San Francisco 49ers last month in the City by the Bay. Oddsmakers have their money on Manning and his... |
| I Cannot Accept Piers Morgan as the 'new' Larry King Contributed by : Carol Gould Editor's Note in January 2012:In light of the troubled and troubling Republican primary debates and ugly campaign rhetoric I remind readers of an editorial I... |
| Carol Gould's 'Spitfire Girls' on Amazon Kindle Contributed by : Carol Gould LondonWhy is British Television not covering the worst child abuse scandal in American history?Right now it is well into the wee hours and I am glued once again to... |
| Big blaze battled in Bridgeville Firefighters battled a blaze in Bridgeville this morning that destroyed an apartment building and spread to a neighboring structure. An emergency dispatch supervisor said the fire at 667 Baldwin... |
| Year of decision: Obama's address sets up his re-election hopes After three challenging years in office and before the revving of his re-election drive, the State of the Union message delivered by the 44th president of the United States had to be interesting, and... |
| Get it right: The county's assessment website is a valuable tool County Executive Rich Fitzgerald jumped the gun Monday when his office announced that the county had "an improved website" for the new property values of the court-ordered reassessment. It... |
| Listen up: Distracted walking begins to take a toll While legislators across the country debate bills on the dangers of driving while using a cell phone, a report last week added a new wrinkle to the epidemic of traveling while distracted. A study... |
| Letters to the Editor: Double Taxation "The 'Buffett Rule,"' (Editorial, Feb. 2) incorrectly implies that people who earn millions of dollars a year, like Mitt Romney, only pay a 15 percent tax rate if most or all of their income comes... |
| Two injured in Beaver County car crash Two Beaver County residents were hurt Saturday in a car crash blamed on speed. State police at Beaver said Mark Frankenberry, 22, of New Brighton, was cited for driving at an unsafe speed following... |
| Op-Ed Contributor: Learning to Share the Stage Fifty years ago Monday, in a Waseda University auditorium in Tokyo, someone pulled the plug on Robert Kennedy's microphone. The attorney general had come to Japan to repair the U. S.-Japan alliance... |
| From the International Herald Tribune: 100, 75, 50 Years Ago 1912 Nanking Discusses Abdication
As the result of a conference of the Republican Assembly to-day [Feb. 4], which lasted till midnight, to discuss the scheme of abdication, it is expected that... |
| WLOX Editorial: Defense cuts challenge us Recently we learned that the Army and the Marine Corps will become a smaller fighting unit, the Pentagon and top defense officials propose to delay some ships and may even scrap some defense... |
| Egypt: Regime implicated in Port Said massacre Do you remember what happened on February 2 last year? On that day, one year ago, Tahrir Square was attacked by thugs on camels, horses and donkeys. These clashes, which lasted for hours and were... |
| GLW issue number 909 about GLW - the need for alternative media In these days of growing media concentration, Green Left Weekly is a proudly independent voice committed to human and civil rights, global peace and... |
| What's hot at SFGate.com, Feb. 5 1. UCSF scientists declare war on sugar in food 2. Peyton Manning as 49er makes sense, but not enough 3. Morford: Please do not eat this 4. North Bay girl died of 'date rape' drug... |
| CLASS Act is dead, but Obama won't repeal it It says something about the brazen attitude of American politicians that Congress enacted a measure to create a program that was impossible to implement - and named it the CLASS Act. CLASS stands for... |
| Drugs trump Afghanistan military concerns France can't seem to decide how quickly it will withdraw its troops from Afghanistan after a rogue Afghan soldier opened fire on unarmed French soldiers, killing four and wounding 15. Over the... |
| Faith-based tolerance on gay marriage Washington state is promenading down a controversial aisle that's familiar to Californians after its Senate approved a bill last week legalizing same-sex marriage. The lower house and the... |
| Who reviews the U.S. 'kill list'? There has been remarkably little public debate in the U.S. about drone strikes, which have killed at least 1,300 people in Pakistan alone since President Obama came to... |
