| Extension in ISI chief's tenure indicates Pak Army acting as "law unto itself": Editorial Pakistan Army chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani's decision to extend the tenure of the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) chief Lt.Gen. Ahmad Shuja Pasha indicates that the Pakistan Army is acting as a "law unto itself," says an editorial in on of the country's leading English... | |
| Health Care And Job Creation Are Important, But Obama Must Address Racism Oakland, Calif. Will President Obama pull it all off? That’s the question everyone seems to be asking as they wait to see if the Obama administration can deliver on everything from healthcare... |
| Diocese Realigning Inner-city Catholic Schools Four inner-city Catholic schools supported through the Extra Mile Education Foundation will be merged into two schools over the next several years, according to a news release from the Diocese of... |
| Route 30 Weekend Closing Postponed PennDOT has postponed the weekend closure of Route 30 in North Versailles because of expected bad weather. The road is now scheduled to be closed the following two weekends from Friday night to... |
| Excuse Me While I Rant Maybe it's because I've been watching respected media organizations hemorrhaging revenue and staff over many years now that I have a hard time with the media guilt trip. On any day, I can read blogs... |
| Paying Attention To The Obvious One of the most famous obvious things was the round world. Long before 1492, mariners sailed to the horizon and returned to tell the tale. Another obvious thing was the way every school kid looking... |
| Foreign Policy: Sudan's Dangerous Game March 12, 2010 The Lord's Resistance Army has come to Darfur, Sudan, and that is not good news for anyone. The Lord's Resistance Army is a vicious militia led by self-proclaimed messiah Joseph Kony,... |
| National Review: Cap And Tax favorite Republican environmentalist, Lindsey Graham (S.C.) — is working overtime to build support for "doing something" about climate change in the upper chamber of Congress. Their chosen... |
| The New Republic: Paul Ryan, The Republican's Vision House Budget Committee ranking member Rep. Paul Ryan delivers an opening statement during a conference committee meeting with Senate Budget Committee in the U.S. Capitol April 27, 2009 in Washington,... |
| The Nation: Lawyers, Terror & Torture March 12, 2010 In this profoundly dispiriting season of partisan guerrilla warfare, we have grown all too accustomed to unfounded and nakedly cynical attacks on the Obama administration from the... |
| With Alex Salmond Livid Over His Televised Election Debate Snub, Political Editor Ian Swanson Examines What All The Fuss Is About Mr Salmond and his SNP colleagues have been making their dismay clear since plans for the three debates were announced just before Christmas, with the row set to explode again today after meetings in... |
| Susan Morrison: The Truth Is Out There And Now I'm Terrified ung gallant man came – nay, leapt – to my aid and started that arm waving and car punching thing you do to help direct cars reversing. I successfully completed my manoeuvre, as my old driving... |
| Talk Of The Town: Pizza Testing Job Just Cannot Be Topped Papa John's on Leith Walk is offering one person the chance to become its official "pizza tester", which would involve sampling a range of free pizzas for a year.John Winton, who owns the Leith... |
| Leader: Skin Cancer Deaths r of deaths from skin cancer in the Lothians doubled last year.The figure has fluctuated in recent years but the trend has been generally upwards, and the 2009 figure was the highest ever recorded.... |
| John Gibson: Now This Old Seadog Is Making Waves .. Too much information. Sandi Talksbig on her 50th birthday eschewed wearing small pants. Skimps. Thongs. Permanently. Her knickers now come up to her chest. (Bet a lot of you girls are wearing them... |
| Letters To The International Herald Tribune: The Tea Partiers Of Tomorrow David Brooks (“The Wal-Mart hippies,” Views, March 6) suggests that today’s Tea Partiers bear a striking resemblance to 1960s-era New Leftists: brash, noisy and naïve, and not... |
| Mcardle Roadway To Remain Closed Through Morning Rush Hour McArdle Roadway will remain closed between the Liberty Bridge and Grandview Avenue in Mount Washington through the morning rush hour. The road was blocked Thursday by a landslide. Commuters can... |
| Middle East Peace Efforts: Lessons From Healthcare Reform It took a year of trying for President Obama to persuade Israelis and Palestinians to enter into "proximity talks" to resolve issues standing in the way of a final peace plan. But as we learned from... |
| Penn Jillette: Give This Funny Old Man Some Pie Ijust turned 55 years old. This year my age and the last two digits of my birth year are the same. That happens only once in a lifetime. I turned 55 on stage in Jersey and more than 1,000 audience... |
| Bid Date Delayed For High School Project In Montour The Montour school board is pushing the bid date for its high school renovation project to March 30 and will delay its official meeting until March 31. "That will keep us in March, which was our... |
| Central Valley Principals Will Split Duties The Central Valley school board is set to solve its two-principals-for-one-high-school problem by splitting the job in two. Monaca High School and Center Area High School will become Central Valley... |
| <font Face="tahoma" Color="black" Size="5"><strong>iran's Spies Show How It's Done</strong></font> By Mahan Abedin The dramatic arrest of Abdulmalik Rigi, Iran's most wanted man, on February 23 continues to be shrouded in mystery. But with information and insights gleaned from security... |
| The Demise Of A 'good-for-nothing Bandit' carried a US-issued Afghan passport and visited a US base in Afghanistan hours before being captured. US officials were quoted as saying the charges were bogus. Contrary to reports in Arab... |
| Israel Puts Us On Notice By Victor Kotsev Relations between the United States and Israeli administrations have been tense for the past year. When US Vice President Joe Biden landed in Israel on Monday, seeking to... |
| A Titanic Power Struggle In Kabul By M K Bhadrakumar The flurry of diplomatic activity in Kabul during the past week heralded the opening shots of a titanic power struggle, the outcome of which will largely determine the... |
| Us, China Struggle With Mid-life Crisis By Jing-dong Yuan MONTEREY, California - Beijing's highly charged, unequivocally strong responses to United States foreign policy actions in recent months have gone beyond past practices of... |
| When The Mekong Runs Dry By Brian McCartan VIENTIANE - Low water levels on the upper Mekong River have renewed criticism over hydropower dams China has erected on the waterway's upper reaches. Environmental groups and... |
| South Korea Reluctant To Take Command South Korea reluctant to take command By Donald Kirk SEOUL - North Korea's rhetoric is such a familiar noise during United States-South Korean war games that most people don't pay attention.... |
| <font Size="4" Color="black">medvedev Plays<br>down Power Role</font> is keeping the oil and gas industries under control. Addressing French business leaders, Medvedev ventured a proposition that "economic growth fueled by commodities exports, if it has not... |
| Star Gazing And Remembering Robert Mccall A stellar jet in the Carina Nebula is pictured in space. Artist Robert McCall relished creating images similar to these for NASA, Stanley Kubrick, and the U.S. Postal... |
| Extension In Isi Chief's Tenure Indicates Pak Army Acting As 'law Unto Itself': Editorial Islamabad, Mar.12 : Pakistan Army chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani's decision to extend the tenure of the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) chief Lt.Gen. Ahmad Shuja Pasha indicates that the... |
| Analysis: Will Jerusalem Spat Undo Peacemaking? (AP) WASHINGTON (AP) - Vice President Joe Biden's trip to Israel and the West Bank was designed to underscore the Obama administration's commitment to support Israeli security as it approaches... |
| Mere Words Won't Change - Uae Press Editorials Mar 12, 2010 - 01:33 - WAM Abu Dhabi, Mar 12th, 2010 (WAM) -- "We've had enough of rhetoric. It's time for President Obama to show with action that America indeed believes in what it says", said a... |
| 'get Out Of Jail Free' In San Francisco San Francisco drug dealers are waltzing out of court this week, all charges dropped after an embarrassing - and unprofessional - foul-up by law... |
| Weighing Text-lobbying During Public Meetings Mayor Gavin Newsom is slightly off track in suggesting a ban on text-message lobbying during meetings of San Francisco's Board of Supervisors and city commissions. He's right, it can be unfair and... |
| Wild Horses - Symbol Of The West Moving East? A rancher was quoted in a documentary about the problems involved with the reintroduction of the nearly extinct Mexican wolf as saying, "We don't want them." No science. No statistics. No reason or... |
| Editorial: Fix Retirement Program Before Money Vanishes At issue is the health of the Social Security Trust Funds, which collect payroll taxes to pay for Americans' retirement and disability benefits. Since 1984, the funds have taken in more than they... |
| Hugh Mclachlan: Why Labour's Election Slogan Is Far From Fair " . . whereas MPs who have English constituencies do not have a similar say over Scottish affairs. Some people get distressed by such paradoxes and consider them unfair. However paradoxes of one sort... |
| Another Link For Legacy The Utah Department of Transportation has planned an $8 million study to find out if pushing the Legacy Parkway further north is workable. The expensive study is a good idea — considering the... |
| U.s. Should No Longer Ignore Problems In Latin America While two wars in Asia and a dangerous confrontation with Iran dominate President Barack Obama's foreign policy worry list, oil-rich Venezuela, much closer to home, is becoming more than a minor... |
| 2010 Legislature To Be Remembered For Budget, Ethics The 2010 Utah Legislature is over. No one died. And especially for an election-year general session, there wasn't much blood spilled — political or otherwise. In fact, this was one of the... |
| Health Care Bill Still Contains Too Many Sweetheart Deals WASHINGTON — Skipping through the Candy Land of the health care bill, one is tempted to hum a few bars of "Let Me Call You Sweetheart." What a deal. For deal-makers, that is. Not so much for... |
| Tax Sugar, Salt, Fat It has been politically popular, both locally and nationally, to tax tobacco products, allegedly to protect the health of both users and non-users alike. The real reason is to force tobacco users to... |
| Poll Story Is Lacking Amy Stewart (March 9) breathlessly informs us that a recent poll indicates that a majority of those polled believe the Jordan/Canyons split is unfair to Jordan students and teachers. However, Ms.... |
| Keep Rights In Mind Health care is not a human right, it is merely a human wish. So states Walter Williams in his column (March 10). He states that "true rights such as those in our Constitution, or those considered to... |
| Quiet The Ultra-conservative Rants Observing our legislators' behavior this season has been an eye-opener about power. Senate President Michael Waddoups and Speaker of the House David Clark essentially allowed themselves to be... |
| Did Crosby's Popularity Take A Dip? Q: My initial reaction to Sidney Crosby's golden goal was that it is exactly what the NHL wanted to see. But after thinking about it -- with Crosby being the perceived face of the NHL -- what does... |
| Editorial: Justice Served In Clark Case The trial and ultimate conviction Thursday of a gang member who gunned down Denver Broncos cornerback Darrent Williams was an eye-opening look into a world where witnesses feared for their lives and... |
| Editorial: Insurance Policies That Anyone Can Understand A bill moving through the General Assembly seeks to empower Coloradans as they try to make sense of the often arcane language of insurance policies. The bill would require insurers to present their... |
| Out Of Order: Liz Cheney's Assault On Constitutional Principle The terrorist attacks on 9/11 not only caused loss of life and physical damage but also put cracks in America's sense of national identity. In ill-considered response, actions that once would have... |
