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Big Brother wants to watch you more closely. Especially how you spend your money. His latest snooping plan comes from provisions in the banking bill being debated in the Senate. The bill is being pushed by Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., chairman of the Senate Banking Committee. Among other things, the bill is supposed to alert regulators to hazards in the industry to prevent another financial meltdown like the one that started in September 2008, and to make it easier to spot rip-off artists like Bernard Madoff. The bill sets up...
P resident Barack Obama’s choice of U.S. Solicitor General Elena Kagan to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens is politically shrewd and expedient. And it’s not the worst possible outcome for liberty-minded constitutionalists. Kagan, 50, would be the youngest member of the high court. Her resume is impressive though she is not a judge. Obama appointed her solicitor general — the federal government’s representative when presenting cases before the Supreme Court — and she was the first femal...
This viewpoint, which reflects ours, was written by the editorial staff at The Brownsville (Texas) Herald. Mexico’s government is working hard to put out good news about its people and economy. We can only hope the news is true. President Felipe Calderon announced last week that Mexico’s economy has created 382,000 new jobs this year, and that the country is moving toward economic recovery. Labor Secretary Javier Lozano Alarcon said the nation’s unemployment rate has steadily declined, and was at 4.8 percent in March, down...
Editor’s note: Freedom Communications announced Friday it has emerged from bankruptcy. Freedom is the owner of Freedom New Mexico, including the Clovis News Journal, Portales News-Tribune and Quay County Sun. They could have been millionaires, many times over, in 1985 when a million dollars meant something. But 25 years ago, the majority of the Hoiles family, owner of this newspaper and The Orange County Register, spurned a $1 billion buyout of the Santa Ana, Calif., newspaper and its parent company’s other holdings. Som... Full story
This viewpoint, which reflects those of Freedom Communications, was written by the editorial staff at the Orange County (Calif.) Register. Sen. Lindsey Graham seems the odd man out in Congress these days. The South Carolina Republican has taken heat from both parties for trying to work with the Democratic majority on major legislation, particularly energy and immigration. He and New York Democrat Chuck Schumer have worked the hardest to bringing immigration reform off the back burner; the two pledged last month they would...
Sen. Lindsey Graham seems the odd man out in Congress these days. The South Carolina Republican has taken heat from both parties for trying to work with the Democratic majority on major legislation, particularly energy and immigration. He and New York Democrat Chuck Schumer have worked the hardest to bringing immigration reform off the back burner; the two pledged last month they would offer a bill that lawmakers could debate before the November elections. But Graham on Saturday bailed out on the effort, saying the matter...
This viewpoint, which reflects those of Freedom Communications, was written by the editorial staff at the Orange County (Calif.) Register....
Less than a month old, Obamacare already is loaded into an ambulance on its way to the ER. The first crisis for the health care overhaul plan is a shortage of doctors. “At current graduation and training rates, the nation could face a shortage of as many as 150,000 doctors in the next 15 years, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges,” the Wall Street Journal reported April 12. Most in demand will be primary-care physicians, who “have a larger role under the new law, coordinating care for each patie... Full story
April 15 — traditionally the most dreaded day of the year since it’s the deadline for filing income tax returns or extension requests — has past. The pain we all feel from heavy taxation remains. This caused the populist Tea Party movement to arise last year. Hundreds of thousands of people rose up in protest. In Texas, even Gov. Rick Perry added his own voice to calls for the state to secede from the Union and its high levies. The movement has only grown bigger — and angrier — in the past 12 m... Full story
This viewpoint, which reflects those of Freedom Communications, was written by the editorial staff at The Brownsville (Texas) Herald.... Full story
A “little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical,” is one of the better-known quotes of Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson was born this week in 1743. It’s not hard to imagine which side he would take in today’s battles over the increased centralization of power in government. Were he alive today, would Jefferson side with the Tea Party movement and others objecting to President Barack Obama’s health care bill, stimulus programs and increased spending and debt? “Ye...
This viewpoint, which reflects those of Freedom Communications, was written by the editorial staff at the Orange County (Calif.) Register....
This viewpoint, which reflects those of Freedom Communications, was written by the editorial staff at the Orange County (Calif.) Register. President Barack Obama has returned from a whirlwind trip to Afghanistan, where he sought to encourage U.S. troops and reportedly delivered yet another lecture to Afghan President Hamid Karzai on the importance of reducing corruption in an endemically corruption-riddled regime and being able actually to deliver services to the people after U.S. troops clear and hold certain areas of the... Full story
This viewpoint, which reflects those of Freedom Communications, was written by the editorial staff at the Orange County (Calif.) Register.... Full story
The Internet behemoth Google announced last week it would stop filtering content for its Chinese-language search Web site in China, a bold decision that could lead to Google being blocked in China. The move hoists a glaring spotlight on Beijing’s ongoing desire to stifle free speech and manipulate Chinese markets. And, while it looks like a hard stance against government censorship by Chinese authorities, it is not as simple as that. The communist government in Beijing is well-known for censoring specific types of content o...
T he passage of the federal health care bill is likely the result of a confluence of various factors. A costly existing system, primarily due to doctor shortages, the cost of existing regulation and hefty lawsuit awards that drove up costs and insurance premiums, convinced many that change — any change — was necessary. Opponents of the plan did a bad job convincing the public that a better option would be less, not more government, in the form of more reasonable rules regarding plaintiff awards, and policies deter...
Who could have imagined how life would be changed by the Internet? There weren’t many testing the waters 25 years ago when, on March 15, the first dotcom Internet domain name — symbolic.com — was registered by a Cambridge, Mass., computer manufacturer. The flood gates didn’t exactly fly open. Only five more domains were registered that year. The pace has picked up a bit since. Twenty-one million domains were registered over the next 15 years, and 57 million more in the past 10 years. Nearly 22,000 new dotcom Web...
This viewpoint, which reflects those of Freedom Communications, was written by the editorial staff at the Orange County (Calif.) Register....
For millions of people, “Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl” has provided insights into the suffering of some of the victims of the Nazis’ vicious campaign of state-supported terror against Jews. But the book would never have seen the light of day if not for the courage and resourcefulness of Miep Gies, who preferred to call herself “just an ordinary housewife and secretary.” Mrs. Gies died Jan. 11 in the Netherlands, one month short of her 101st birthday. Her example of doing the right thing in the face of daily danger sh...
For a while now I have observed the alarm about the use of cell phones while driving. There is hardly any doubt that doing so is hazardous. In his Dec. 7 article for The New York Times, Matte Richtel chronicles some of this. He reports on Bob Lucky, an executive director at Bell Labs from 1982-92. Lucky said he knew that drivers talking on cell phones were not focused fully on the road. But he did not think much about it or discuss it and supposed others did not, either, given the industry’s booming fortunes. “If you...
Despite a belated recognition that most Americans care more about lost jobs and the faltering economy than an effort to increase government control over one-sixth of the economy, President Barack Obama has made passage of some sort of health care revision his signature issue. He wants something he can sign by early next year — with any luck early enough so as not to endanger the re-election prospects of Democratic legislators on shaky electoral ground. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada has taken the point posi...
Despite a belated recognition that most Americans care more about lost jobs and the faltering economy than an effort to increase government control over one-sixth of the economy, President Barack Obama has made passage of some sort of health care revision his signature issue. He wants something he can sign by early next year — with any luck early enough so as not to endanger the re-election prospects of Democratic legislators on shaky electoral ground. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada has taken the point posi...
It is perhaps a bittersweet moment to be remembering the founder of the company that owns this newspaper at a time when the newspaper business in general and this company in particular are going through difficult times — times not only related to the recession, but to particular changes in technology that have made it more difficult to sustain what we sometimes call the dead-tree-edition of daily journalism. The Internet is a marvelous source of information and knowledge if we use it wisely, with the awareness that info... Full story
In a major blow to the campaign against the presumed threat of global warming, world leaders acknowledge that a legally binding global treaty won’t be approved at next month’s 192-nation climate conference in Copenhagen. The concession significantly delays U.N. efforts to orchestrate a treaty to limit greenhouse gases to replace the Kyoto Treaty, which expires in 2012. Nations like the U.S. and poorer nations share the blame for the missed deadline. Their concerns are similar to our own. Developed nations are reluctant to...
Based on statements from various officials, it seems our preferred approach to Afghanistan — pulling out most U.S. military forces from that country and focusing on al-Qaida, which is not operating in Afghanistan and is unlikely to secure a “safe haven” in Afghanistan however the struggle there turns out, especially if the U.S. issues credible warnings — is perhaps the least-likely option to emerge from the drawn-out review President Barack Obama is undertaking. At a meeting Tuesday with a bipartisan group of 30...
