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  • Letters No welfare ever

    Why can't people learn from history and realize it is not the role of government to "provide" for the poor? When the government confiscates from taxpayers, which is mandatory, to give to the less fortunate, everyone loses. There is no volunteer charitable element in this. It's a "Robin Hood" approachrob the haves to give to the have-nots. We know anything done ...

  • Immigration reform overlooks asylum-seekers

    "Work authorization is not meant to get you rich, it's to let you live," said an Egyptian asylum-seeker who fled to the United States after a radical group beat him and tried to kidnap his wife and daughter. After fleeing persecution in their home countries, asylum-seekers like this man in New Jersey face a new type of maltreatment in the United States: The U.S. government ...

  • Bad bills keep comin’

    Beacon Hill seems to have entered its "don’t just stand there, do something" season.The problem is that most of the "somethings" are the kind of micro-managing that state government just shouldn’t be doing.First case, two bills that would needlessly burden ...

  • Editorial Its time for the $10 newsstand umbrella

    Photo credit: Angela Gaul Council Speaker Christine Quinn last week announced a plan to double -- from $5 to $10 -- the price cap on items that can be sold at sidewalk newsstands. Her proclamation amazed more than a few New Yorkers: Who knew that streetcorner newsstand owners have to petition the City Council to sell a useful $10 umbrella -- instead of the water-soluble $4 version -- here in ...

  • Editorial State legislators shouldn’t delay budget work

    LEGISLATORS in Olympia show every sign of delaying agreement on a two-year state budget until the Economic and Revenue Forecast Council releases its revenue forecast on June 18. The feeling is that the economy is improving, revenue collections are up, so the revenue forecast for the coming biennium will be up, too. It may well be. The extra money, however, is not likely to be all that much. The ...


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Movie Review

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

There is a real sense of giddy pleasure in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl that is all too often missing from big-budget Hollywood spectacles. In an era marked by Matrix-stylized seriousness or Charlies Angels-like postmodern overload, Pirates of the Caribbean pulls off a neat balancing act between nostalgic adventure and self-aware humor. Forget ... ...

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  • Egypt’s NGO Funding Crackdown

    Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are essential to democracy and a key way for people of all political views to band together to influence public debate. But once more, the Egyptian government is threatening to restrict NGOs that receive foreign funds. Exercised about criticism from some of these groups, the ruling party is pushing a bill that would empower the government to decide which ...

  • Frank Pignanelli LaVarr Webb How will these national scandals affect Utah politics

    In the past two weeks, Americans were confronted with the fact that their government engaged in activities repugnant to democratic societies — cover up of mistakes in protecting foreign diplomats, IRS probes of conservative political organizations and secret seizure of more than 100 journalists' phone records. We offer insightful examination (in other words, LaVarr needling Frank, ...

  • Its Not Just About Sexual Violence

    If the Hague initiative is going to make a real difference in the lives of women, it needs to take a broader view of the problem and address the full spectrum of women's needs during conflict. It should also consider what happens to women when the wars end and the soldiers go home - violence against women doesn't automatically end with the ...

  • South China Sea dispute Taiwan flexes its muscles | Editorial

    China Sea. Ten days ago, a Philippine coast guard ship went too far in chasing off a Taiwanese fishing vessel in disputed waters. Such actions involve water cannons and the damage is nothing worse than a few broken portholes. This time the coast guard ship loosed off 54 rounds into the side of the Taiwanese boat and killed a fisherman. ...

  • World worries about Syria Washington stuck on Benghazi

    The world is worried about Syria. But the United States (or at least Washington) is more focused on Libya. Not about that country’s lawless disintegration in the post-Gadhafi era, but about Benghazi, and the timeline of events before, during and after four Americans were slain there last Sept. 11. What to some is modern media’s version of a smoking gun ...

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