 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... | |
| 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... |
| Editorial notebook: Women with cancer don't care about politics My wife had her first mammogram last month. There was a spot on the image. The doctor wanted a closer look. So, a few days later, she had an ultrasound. She is fine. But in the moments between... |
| Readers' forum: Romney, the very poor Donald Trump greets Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney after announcing his endorsement of Romney. When Mitt Romney stated that he is "not concerned about the very poor," this... |
| Readers' forum: U.'s football specialists University of Utah coach Kyle Whittingham I have to admit, Kyle Whittingham's new approach to coaching is innovative — "coaching by committee." The offense now has a separate... |
| Readers' forum: Don't attack Sen. Orrin Hatch I have noticed recently that the tea party group is going to spend a lot of money to try and unseat and defeat Sen. Orrin Hatch for re-election. I support many of the things that the tea party... |
| Robert Bennett: Candidates need economic policy to win With the Florida primary behind us, pundits are now pouring through its exit polls to come up with numbers to tell us where Mitt Romney's strengths and weaknesses lie. Pollsters are doing the... |
| Candid camera on the T I f we didn’t have enough to worry about on the subway from catching the flu to dealing with a likely fare hike, along come amateur paparazzi to deal with. A company of pests promises to... |
| The Call for Obama's Murder by an American journal Contributed by : Carol Gould Andrew Adler in the January 13 edition of the Atlanta Jewish Times has called for the assassination of President Obama by the Israeli Mossad as part of a coordinated... |
| Philadelphia High School for Girls: my memories 40 years on Contributed by : Carol Gould London I have been reading with great interest Allison... |
| This Heartless British Government Contributed by : Carol Gould I have it up to the eye teeth with Jewish and Zionist friends and correspondents writing in hysterical tones to me... |
| Occupy members ponder their next move By court order, Occupy Pittsburgh must get off BNY Mellon Green by today, but while many of the tents were removed Sunday, it was not clear whether all of the protesters would be gone. Matt Wheeler,... |
| Real-time courts: A rules panel would send Pa. to the dark ages Just as the state Supreme Court is stepping into the modern era by tweeting its rulings and allowing TV broadcasts of some sessions, its rules panel wants to take a big step backward. The Criminal... |
| Test of leadership: America can erase its deficits, if it stays the course The Congressional Budget Office has not been in the habit of handing out valentines, and so it was last week when it offered its latest annual outlook on the federal government's economic... |
| Soul man: Cornelius' show got young people on their feet At the height of his popularity in the early 1970s, "Soul Train" creator Don Cornelius was more influential as far as young people were concerned than Congress, the president or the press.... |
| Who decides how much 'shall be required'? At Thursday morning's National Prayer Breakfast, President Barack Obama delivered a fascinating address, pointing out the shared values of the world's major religions while constantly... |
| In our opinion: Unspeakably tragic: Josh Powell, Susan Cox Powell For more than two years, people in Utah and Washington have followed the saga of Susan Powell's disappearance, hoping for some good news. It never came. Now we have seen the most horrific and... |
| Quakes pose severe threat to S.F. housing stock The public-policy group SPUR has issued an eye-opening report about the vulnerability of San Francisco's housing stock to a major earthquake. It projected that nearly a quarter of the... |
| Occupy the public domain If you celebrated Martin Luther King Jr. Day by watching the "I Have a Dream" speech on YouTube, you broke the law. Or at least that's what the Martin Luther King Jr. estate contends.... |
| Egypt: Protesters say revolution must continue Protesters pack out Tahrir Aquare, one year on from the start of the rising that overthrew Hosni Mubarak. The streets of Cairo were full of protesters on January 27, two days after the first... |
| Egypt: Cops fail to act as 74 died Egyptian citizens have accused the police and military of failing to intervene on February 1 to stop clashes at an Egyptian football match that killed at least 74 people. Dozens of angry protesters... |
| Venezuela: Workers draft proposals for new labour law Cutting the working day to a maximum of seven hours, eliminating subcontracted work and raising maternity leave to a period of five months were some of the proposals put forward by thousands of... |
| New York Giants win Super Bowl, 21-17 New York Giants running back Ahmad Bradshaw (44) rushes for a touchdown in front of New England Patriots linebacker Jerod Mayo (51) during the second half of the NFL Super Bowl XLVI football game,... |
| 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... |
