Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night prevent reforms of the U.S. Postal Service. Instead, it’s a lack of will by Congress and bureaucratic inertia at a public agency that has not met the challenge of private competition.
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Opinion
Gun vote was a beginning, not an end
Posted on 20 April 2013.
When President Barack Obama on Thursday in Boston referred to “small, stunted individuals who would destroy instead of build,” he was talking about terrorists.
He was talking about the person or people who planted the two bombs that dest
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Priority call poses problems
Posted on 08 April 2013.
The Carlsbad Irrigation District’s announcement Tuesday of plans to request a priority call on water usage smacks of desperation and poses a threat of further damaging an already fragile situation regarding our area’s most vital resource.
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Presidential whim is not enough
Posted on 11 February 2013.
At a street-justice level, killing al-Qaida terrorists with missiles fired by drone aircraft has a kind of cosmic symmetry: Al-Qaida made the rules — surprise attacks by air — so now al-Qaida has to live with them. Or not.
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Editorial
Posted on 19 December 2012.
Small business slammed
Tax policy — or the lack thereof — has consequences. Americans are seeing that uncertainty about the federal fiscal cliff is sparking investors to make moves to profit now, instead of getting hit
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Editorial
Posted on 15 December 2012.
GOP moving, Obama should, too
It’s puzzling how much the definitions of “compromise” and “balance” have changed since the November election.
The message out of the White House, dutifully repeated by the pre
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World Opinion
Posted on 14 December 2012.
Israel and Palestine
Despite it being one of the few nations with both the courage and the foresight to vote against the Palestinian Authority getting non-voting observer state status in the UN, Canada’s support of Israel
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National Opinion
Posted on 13 December 2012.
The fiscal cliff
The recent employment report from the Labor Department reinforced the importance of Congress and the White House managing well the looming collection of budget challenges, known as the “fiscal cliff.” P
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Editorial
Posted on 12 December 2012.
Federal debt crisis
As we inch ever closer to the fiscal cliff — the package of sweeping tax increases and spending cuts waiting at the new year if Congress and the president fail to act — we encourage all Americans to
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Editorial
Posted on 12 December 2012.
Obama should compromise, too
We miss Barack Obama, circa 2004. Back then he aspired to unite, not divide.
“We are one people,” he proclaimed, making a star turn at his party’s national convention. “All of us
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