
Other Voices |
November 6, 2009
OTHER VOICES
Last year, a committee of experts published an alarming report on childhood obesity for a scholarly journal published by the American Academy of Family Physicians.
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Other Voices |
November 6, 2009
We need a Karzai strategy, new Afghan plan
KABUL, Afghanistan — The re-election of President Hamid Karzai creates new headaches for the Obama administration. But it also presents opportunities to be seized.
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Other Voices |
November 5, 2009
OTHER VOICES
The burst of economic growth in the third quarter reported last week was notable for all the gripes and worries it elicited from commentators. It was dependent on temporary government programs, they said. It may not be sustainable. It's not generating jobs. It doesn't feel like a recovery.
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Other Voices |
November 5, 2009
Obama White House playing numbers games
We used to hear quite a bit about the Bush administration's supposed "war on science."
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Other Voices |
November 4, 2009
OTHER VOICES
To the many woes plaguing airline passengers — smaller seats, higher ticket prices, fewer flights, etc. — add one more: Piloting while distracted.
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Other Voices |
November 4, 2009
How the feds enable mortgage scam artists
In Glendale, Calif., three men and two women were arrested and charged with beating, torturing and robbing two self-styled "mortgage modification specialists" in an attack at a real estate office on Oct. 20.
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Other Voices |
November 3, 2009
Newspapers evolving, can have bright future
WASHINGTON — Each time another report surfaces about the decline of newspapers, I feel like a death row inmate counting the warden's footsteps.
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Other Voices |
November 3, 2009
OTHER VOICES
Congress now proposes to create a Consumer Financial Protection Agency. If it will actually do something to oversee mortgages and other financial products, we are for it.
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Other Voices |
November 2, 2009
OTHER VOICES
When Congress passed the Credit Cardholders' Bill of Rights last May, we called it a long overdue response to the abuses of predatory credit-card issuers who have used every trick in the book to extract money from cardholders. As it turns out, we underestimated the greed and craftiness of the credit-card industry.
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George Will |
November 2, 2009
Disclosure as liberal coercion, intimidation
SEATTLE — Conservatives here, a droll minority, say that under this city's quota system, when a conservative enters the city, one already here is required to leave.
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Charles Krauthammer |
October 31, 2009
Afghanistan is Obama's war, time to decide
WASHINGTON — Old Soviet joke:
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