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An implausible plan to fight terrorism through community outreach

An implausible plan to fight terrorism through community outreach

A White House paper promoting community initiatives to curb radicalization is commendable, but there is no evidence to suggest such efforts work.

 

Today's politicians could learn from Eisenhower

Dwight D. Eisenhower refused to politicize crises.

GOP vs. Mother Nature

Dozens of proposals by the House GOP would encourage deadly pollution of the air and water.

 
Mubarak: Avoiding 'victor's justice' in Egypt

Mubarak: Avoiding 'victor's justice' in Egypt

Hosni Mubarak, the longtime president of Egypt and personification of corruption in that country, went on trial Wednesday in a televised...

Congress left the FAA up in the air

Congress left the FAA up in the air

If nothing else, the extended debate over raising the federal debt ceiling, which brought the country to the brink of economic catastrophe,...

Yosemite: The nature of danger

Yosemite: The nature of danger

There were times when the trail up Half Dome was so crowded it looked like a human freeway at rush hour. So much so that last year, Yosemite...

Now, a focus on jobs

Now, a focus on jobs

Minutes after the Senate gave final approval to the hard-fought debt-ceiling deal, President Obama declared that it was time again for...

Overreacting to cheating

Overreacting to cheating

Students don't generally like tests, and a certain number of them cheat. Yet it's a rare educator who would advocate eliminating tests or...

Profiles in sleaze and courage

Profiles in sleaze and courage

It is often said, and usually supported by polls, that Americans distrust Congress but like their own representatives. That's why they can...

Science and salmon

Science and salmon

People tend to respect and believe in science — until it tells them something they didn't want to hear. Thus President George W....

Debt ceiling: A squandered deal

Debt ceiling: A squandered deal

After months of back-and-forth between President Obama and congressional leaders on raising the debt ceiling, the least one could expect...

More than a spoonful of sugar

More than a spoonful of sugar

When the government proposes guidelines for children's foods that would consider unsweetened 2%-fat yogurt unhealthful but not a bowl of...

Bell's search for redemption

Bell's search for redemption

It took outrage and a new era of civic involvement among a previously apathetic electorate to throw out the greedy leaders of Bell who...

A gay-wedding crasher

A gay-wedding crasher

Jonathan Turley is probably not the most popular man right now with supporters of same-sex marriage. The George Washington University law...

McManus: Obama's clarity gap

McManus: Obama's clarity gap

We all know by now that the eleventh-hour deal to raise the federal debt ceiling didn't solve much. Federal debt is still ballooning,...

The hidden costs of credit cards

The hidden costs of credit cards

It seems like a no-brainer. Your credit card offers you a $1 reward for every $100 you spend. It's not a huge payback, but it's something: a...

Daum: Norway's paradise lost

Daum: Norway's paradise lost

Anyone who's hung around in liberal circles and found himself in those perfunctory What's Wrong With America conversations has heard the...

New voting districts give the GOP that boxed-in feeling

New voting districts give the GOP that boxed-in feeling

The Citizens Redistricting Commission has drawn its lines, and the latest redistricting, like all redistrictings, has lessons to teach us...

AIDS divides the globe

AIDS divides the globe

At the International AIDS Society's annual meeting in Rome last month, there was a lot of good news. Chief among it was the presentation...

How the GOP lost on the debt deal

How the GOP lost on the debt deal

The chorus of liberal lament began even before the details of the deal to raise the debt ceiling were known. Rep. Raul Grijalva, co-chair of...

Cutting back on housekeepers' heavy lifting

Cutting back on housekeepers' heavy lifting

Some hotel guests may be getting a better night's sleep these days, but at the expense of the housekeepers who clean their rooms. In what...

What about a war ceiling?

What about a war ceiling?

On July 25, while John A. Boehner raced around the Capitol desperately pressing Republican House members for votes on a debt ceiling bill...

Health officials, speak up

Health officials, speak up

An outbreak of food-borne E. coli infections have killed at least 50 people in Europe this year and sickened thousands of others....

Rodriguez: Zero-sum games in an interconnected world

Rodriguez: Zero-sum games in an interconnected world

What's wrong with this picture: Even as the world is becoming increasingly interconnected and interdependent, we seem to be approaching...

Newton: The tangled web of DWP rate increases

Newton: The tangled web of DWP rate increases

Once the Los Angeles City Council quits its faux hand-wringing and approves AEG's proposal to build a football stadium downtown, it will...

McManus: The write stuff

McManus: The write stuff

The news from Washington — bickering over the debt ceiling, poor prospects for the economy — hasn't been uplifting lately. It'...