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Los Angeles Times Opinion Seeking a sharp watch dog to take the place of retiring Inspector General Glenn Fine, who has been a vigilant and fair overseer of the department
He wasn't a household name even to political junkies, but for 10 years Inspector General Glenn A. Fine played a unique role in exposing wrongdoing and partisan meddling in the Justice Department . Fine's retirement demands that the Obama administration and the Senate choose a similarly vigilant
Los Angeles Times Opinion Obama: Quit stalling
A vacancy crisis threatens our federal judiciary. With 108 open trial and appellate court positions across the country — nearly twice the number that existed when President Obama took office — our federal courts are suffering from a near-record 12% vacancy rate.
Los Angeles Times Opinion A new report finds waste in Sacramento -- but cleaning it up won't fill the budget hole.
Somebody call Meg Whitman: A state Senate staff report released this week dug up precisely the kind of waste in Sacramento that the Republican gubernatorial candidate warned us about. The trouble is, it involves only about 100 state lawyers and auditors, and ending it won't come anywhere close t
Los Angeles Times Opinion The best way to avoid a new Korean War is to deter future North Korean provocations. Reducing U.S. forces in the region doesn't do that.
North Korea's string of provocations over the last nine months calls into question America's decisions over the last decade on the number and positioning of ground forces in the Asia-Pacific region. Though Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates insists that we must focus on winning the wars we are in,
Los Angeles Times Opinion Under pressure, the Smithsonian pulls an exhibit. It may signal a new war on publicly funded art.
With conservative Republicans on the ascendency in the aftermath of last month's elections, the nation may be headed for a second round of the 1990s war on publicly funded art. Its opening shots were fired this week at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery.
In the editorial Art or sacrilege?, the Times' editorial board takes on the Catholic League and conservative Republicans for asking the Smithsonian to remove David Wojnarowicz's video, "Fire In My Belly," from its National Portrait Gallery. They say it's an assault on ...Christianity and has no place in a publicly funded art exhibit....
Source:L.A. Times - Opinion Blog
Published:2010-12-03 00:55:50 GMT
In Wednesday's op-ed column, Hate under the cloak of religion, Tim Rutten gives kudos to the Southern Poverty Law Center for adding the Family Research Council to its list of hate groups. Why? FRC’s anti-gay rhetoric. “Now,” he writes, “the two groups are locked in a sh...arp confrontation that raises crucial questions about where the expression of religiously based views on social issues ends and hate speech begins.” Rutten argues:
Such rhetoric...
Source:L.A. Times - Opinion Blog
Published:2010-12-02 21:42:33 GMT
Los Angeles Times Opinion FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski has proposed a sensible framework to help oversee the Internet.
Preserving Net neutrality — that is, preventing the companies that provide the Internet's infrastructure from picking winners and losers among websites and online services — may sound like the tech-industry equivalent of protecting motherhood and apple pie, but policymakers in Washington can't see
Los Angeles Times Opinion Confidential documents show that the U.S. is telling the truth about its objectives with Iran; what they don't reveal is that Obama's policy of engagement and sanctions is showing signs of success.
Los Angeles Times Opinion Part two of Meghan Daum's medical odyssey: Not the flu, but typhus
For four days at the end of last month, I was unconscious. After a week fighting an illness I thought was the flu , I'd ended up in an intensive care unit on a feeding tube and a ventilator with swelling of the brain , multiple organ distress and a platelet disorder called disseminated intravascul
Los Angeles Times Opinion Do we hear the 'Don't ask' death knell?
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Source:L.A. Times - Opinion Blog
Published:2010-12-01 23:58:46 GMT
In a Times Op-Ed by Susan J. Gordon, an author with an expertise in weddings, she questions the date Prince William and Kate Middleton chose for their upcoming nuptials. "Maybe you didn't know that April 29 was the day Adolf Hitler married Eva Braun in 1945," she writes.... "But surely, someone in the royal household might have checked....
Source:L.A. Times - Opinion Blog
Published:2010-12-01 22:00:02 GMT
Last week, editorial board member Karin Klein was rear-ended by an illegal immigrant, Jorge, with no driver's license. (The vehicle, however, had insurance.) Today, she argues that the accident may never have happened were Jorge able to receive training, and therefore a... license, that would have better prepared him for the road....
Source:L.A. Times - Opinion Blog
Published:2010-12-01 19:20:24 GMT
Los Angeles Times Opinion
Will and Kate: You chose the same date that Adolf Hitler wed Eva Braun!
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Los Angeles Times Opinion Driver licenses for immigrants: Him, unlicensed; me, unlucky
I pulled my car over and stepped out into the night. The trunk and bumper were crushed and torn, but the car was drivable and there were no injuries. The driver who rear-ended me was a pleasant young man whose pickup had suffered less damage. I asked for his license and insurance documents. He offer
Los Angeles Times Opinion With both sides appearing unyielding after the summit, President Obama would be better off focusing on one-on-one, grandstanding-free discussions with GOP leaders if he hopes to find bipartisan agreement
The "Slurpee Summit" is over, and if its participants didn't sound as frosty afterward as 7-Eleven's brain-freezing concoction, they clearly still weren't all that sweet on each other either. So what was the point?
Los Angeles Times Opinion
Why are lawmakers ignoring more innovative ways to boost the economy?
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It'll likely be months before the Supreme Court comes to a decision on how to handle California's prison system, where overcrowding deprives inmates of healthcare and social services that would prepare them for reintegration into society. For now, what a few opinionato...rs are saying.
Bad for prisoners, bad for public safety
"If the Supreme Court removes that pressure by overturning the three-judge panel's order, it wouldn't just be bad for prisoners, who are...
Source:L.A. Times - Opinion Blog
Published:2010-11-30 22:47:27 GMT
Last month's capture of Callixte Mbarushimana -- the executive secretary of the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda, or FDLR -- represented positive news for Congo, where rebel soldiers from Rwanda brutally rape and mutilate women. [Read our editorial here.] ...But the effort to stop the violence continues. In an op-ed in Tuesday's Washington Post, Ben Affleck -– yes, the director/actor, who also happened to found Eastern Congo Initiative -- urges...
Source:L.A. Times - Opinion Blog
Published:2010-11-30 20:21:00 GMT
Los Angeles Times Opinion What Washington should do about North Korea
Los Angeles Times Opinion Overcrowding and inadequate medical care results in 'cruel and unusual' punishment
Los Angeles Times Opinion Jonah Goldberg: WikiLeaks confirms that President Obama's foreign policy is a mess
Los Angeles Times Opinion
Editorial: WikiLeaks disclosures interesting, but not crucial
The documents do little more than embarrass the U.S. and complicate its foreign policy. But the Obama administration should take responsibility for safeguarding information at its source
Los Angeles Times Opinion How to achieve lasting peace
Los Angeles Times Opinion Whether his messaging system really transforms how people communicate or not, Zuckerberg issued what amounts to a manifesto that in its own terse way conveys what is already altering our lives — not only how we interact but also how we think and feel. It may even challenge the very idea of serious ideas.
Numerous tech advocacy groups have railed against S 3804, the Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act, for proposing to give the Justice Department the power to seize domain names from sites around the globe that are "dedicated to infringing activities." But ...the Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement division demonstrated over the holiday weekend that the feds already have substantial power to confiscate domains from accused infringers, thanks to a...
Source:L.A. Times - Opinion Blog
Published:2010-11-29 23:00:57 GMT
As the Obama camp plays damage control, journalists are asking: Was the latest WikiLeaks release necessary?
Anne Applebaum asks, What was the point? From Slate:
"This stuff is awkward and embarrassing, but it doesn't fundamentally change very much. How about a leak of ...Chinese diplomatic documents? Or Russian military cables? How about some stuff we don't actually know, like Iranian discussion of Iranian nuclear weapons, or North Korean plans for invasion of South...
Source:L.A. Times - Opinion Blog
Published:2010-11-29 22:04:34 GMT
Los Angeles Times Opinion Can the Democratic Party learn from Food Network star Sandra Lee's recipe for success? http://ow.ly/3gXIv
Californians must be pleased that New York elected Andrew Cuomo , son of Mario, as its Democratic governor. The election affirms, yet again, that blue California has an East Coast bookend in blue New York state, an ideologically close, if geographically distant, high-spending, high-taxing, latt
Los Angeles Times Opinion The president could solve his communications problem by studying how his predecessor did it.
