Provides the latest RSS feeds for General Editorials. For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page New Orleans Sun.com http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/cat/45d771c7290844e9/ en-us Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:44:06 -0400 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:44:06 -0400 30 Magazine unveiled a fashion spread featuring images based on famous women writers who killed themselves. To call it merely tasteless would be to understate how calculated it was as well as how revolting it was -- it literally created an image based on a real writer who really hanged herself with a pair of stockings, and then it told you where to buy the stockings. And because it was ... http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215295956/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:02:08 -0400 http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215295956/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Regarding ... http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215297372/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:41:06 -0400 http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215297372/scat/45d771c7290844e9 "But, I am special!" His father was an alcoholic who brutalized him. While his mother smothered him with affection, she also beat him. As a small, sickly child with a damaged arm, he was bullied regularly at school. But he was highly intelligent and had an amazing memory. He became adept at deceit and manipulation and also learned how to charm. His relentless willpower ... http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215297373/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:38:18 -0400 http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215297373/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Contributed by : The Editor and Honest Reporting Our Editorials are usually written by us, but we have decided to reprint in its entirety this evaluation of the year's reporting on Israel.HonestReporting Communique07 January 2002"DISHONEST REPORTING 'AWARD' FOR 2001"* * *Dear HonestReporting Member,We thank all the members of HonestReporting for sending ... http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215297375/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:29:39 -0400 http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215297375/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Contributed by : The Editor Visitors to this site may be interested in the letters written by the Editor to newspapers during the past two years, a period of time in which a wave of articles hostile to Jewish aspirations have appeared with increasing frequency. Over these years, the Editor, an enthusiastic supporter of Peace Now and of the Oslo peace process, has steadily become alarmed at ... http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215297374/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:29:36 -0400 http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215297374/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Contributed by : The Editor This past year has seen a festering sore become a proliferating plague. It is a form of journalism that condemns Israel with such ferocity as to generate fear amongst Jews of a new era of pogroms. Secular Jews have suggested to me ... http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215295955/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:29:35 -0400 http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215295955/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Another rights activist in China, Mao Hengfeng, endured repeated detention for her opposition to China's one-child policy. She was first detained in a psychiatric hospital in 1988 when she refused to abort her second pregnancy and got fired from a factory. She lost her court battle against the factory and was forced to terminate her third pregnancy even though she was seven months ... http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215297376/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:29:09 -0400 http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215297376/scat/45d771c7290844e9 The L.A. City Council voted to ban plastic bags in supermarkets, convenience stores and any big retailer that sells groceries. Above: A clerk bags groceries in plastic bags in Los ... http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215295558/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:30:10 -0400 http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215295558/scat/45d771c7290844e9 As part of the recent budget deal, the state's public records laws will remain on the books but local governments won't be required to comply. Above: A woman walks in front of City Hall in Victorville, ... http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215295557/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:30:10 -0400 http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215295557/scat/45d771c7290844e9 If the Strengthen and Fortify Enforcement (SAFE) Act passes, undocumented immigrants would be designated as criminals and states would be allowed to enforce their own immigration laws over and above federal laws. Above: Protesters shout against the SAFE Act in the hall outside the House Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, ... http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215295556/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:30:09 -0400 http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215295556/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Please provide your name or a pen name, and your country of residence. Lengthy letters run the risk of being cut. Please ... http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215295559/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:17:41 -0400 http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215295559/scat/45d771c7290844e9 View results AMERICAN BETRAYAL: THE SECRET ASSAULT ON OUR NATION’S CHARACTERBy Diana WestSt. Martin’s Press, $26.99, 403 pagesDiana West’s book, ';American Betrayal,'; is bound to generate spirited debate with her assertion that the United States has been lurching toward socialism since the days of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. As will Miss West’s other major ... http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215293878/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:53:04 -0400 http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215293878/scat/45d771c7290844e9 View results The rumors had been circulating in Washington for weeks, but Bloomberg brought it above the waterline on Thursday: ';At closed-door fundraisers held over the past few weeks, the president has been telling Democratic Party donors that he will unveil new climate proposals in July.'; Just to make certain no one missed her message, the Bloomberg reporter used the word ... http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215293881/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:53:03 -0400 http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215293881/scat/45d771c7290844e9 View results Forty years after the U.S. Supreme Court attempted to settle the abortion debate once and for all, anxious activists on both sides of the homosexual-marriage debate are waiting with bated breath for high court rulings some hope will settle the future of marriage. The history of abortion law and politics, though, illustrates compellingly that judge-made solutions to vast questions of ... http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215293882/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:53:03 -0400 http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215293882/scat/45d771c7290844e9 View results Last year, President Obama was eagerly moving forward with his personal war against guns. He was ready to ignore the Second Amendment and hoped to change the way Americans viewed gun ownership as a fundamental right.Very few shots have been fired from the White House in recent months, however. Democrats would be wise to maintain this strategy for an extended period. If not, a recent ... http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215293880/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:53:02 -0400 http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215293880/scat/45d771c7290844e9 View results It is a well-known axiom of presidential politics that when things aren’t going well at home, chief executives go abroad.With his presidency beset by a wave of scandals - from the shocking politicization of the Internal Revenue Service to damaging national security leaks to his declining job approval in polls, President Obama fled town this week for a European tour. Surely, his ... http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215293879/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:53:01 -0400 http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215293879/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Syria . Once again, the U.S. is ignoring rebel atrocities and aligning itself with sworn enemies, the Islamic supremacists.National security advisers who assure Americans that support will go only to rebels supporting freedom and democracy are fooling themselves, if not us. U.S. leaders can’t even get to the bottom of the Internal Revenue Service scandal, let alone rebel groups that shift ... http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215293883/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:53:01 -0400 http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215293883/scat/45d771c7290844e9 The North American Free Trade Agreement will be 20 years old in 2014, and all those who predicted it would bring about disaster have long gone silent. Despite a painful initial adjustment period, Nafta boosted intra-North American trade, pushing its members to improve competitiveness and focus on their comparative advantages. Mexico is now a manufacturing powerhouse, and a North American ... http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215297371/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:34:30 -0400 http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215297371/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Obama administration published new rules that will make microwave ovens less efficient and more expensive. It’s in the service of the global-warming scam.This is one of the first uses of ... http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215292502/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:47:02 -0400 http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215292502/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Venezuela bans the sale of guns, requires universal gun registration and threatens to send violators to prison for 20 years. The law, which was ';guaranteed'; to save lives, was not the work ... http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215292503/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:47:01 -0400 http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215292503/scat/45d771c7290844e9 who swallowed a clock and shadows a terrified Capt. Hook. Somebody has to scare athletes into playing faster. In baseball, golf and tennis in particular, we are being slowwwwwwly lulled to sleep before every pitch, every shot. The pretentious preparation is interminable. In baseball, the pitcher holds the ball, pondering what to throw as if his decision -- a two-seamer or breaking ball -- would ... http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215289860/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 04:30:51 -0400 http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215289860/scat/45d771c7290844e9 By Ramzy Baroud In the hotel lobby of an Arab Gulf country, a family walks in aiming for the Westernized cafe that sells everything but Arabic coffee. The mother seems distant as she presses buttons on her smartphone. The father looks tired as he puffs away on his cigarette, and a whole band of children run around in a refreshing chaos that breaks the monotony of the posh but impersonal ... http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215290602/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:56:38 -0400 http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215290602/scat/45d771c7290844e9 By Ashfaq Yusufzai PESHAWAR - The United States is laying meticulous plans ahead of its 2014 withdrawal from Afghanistan, but it has clearly overlooked how its continued drones strikes on the tribal areas of neighboring Pakistan will affect the much-anticipated pullout. Last week, militants belonging to the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) torched three containers stuffed with supplies for ... http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215290603/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:56:38 -0400 http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215290603/scat/45d771c7290844e9 By Jim Lobe WASHINGTON - Nearly 12 years after the United States ousted the Taliban from power, the White House announced on Tuesday that the US will begin formal talks with the militant Islamist group in Qatar later this week as part of Afghanistan's national reconciliation process. The announcement, which coincided with ceremonies marking the formal transfer of primary security ... http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215290601/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:56:38 -0400 http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215290601/scat/45d771c7290844e9 By Peter Dale Scott Like President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, United States President Barack Obama's Syrian policy is being tugged strenuously in Washington by hawks and by doves. On June 13, Obama handed two limited but ominous victories to the hawks: a finding of fact that the troops of Syria's president Bashar al-Assad "have used chemical weapons [i.e. Sarin] against rebel ... http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215290018/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:53:22 -0400 http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215290018/scat/45d771c7290844e9 if you are interested in contributing. The June 14 election in Iran has not only shattered many prejudgments about the supposedly predetermined results of the 11th Iranian presidential poll on the international level, but it has also taken many inside Iran by surprise. The reformists, who have been subject to the most severe media criticism and sabotage ... http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215290017/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:53:21 -0400 http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215290017/scat/45d771c7290844e9 By Radio Free Asia Leaders of Cambodia's main opposition group said Tuesday that they will reject the results of upcoming national elections if the ruling party, which is widely expected to win, continues to disrupt campaigning activities of opposition party members. Nhem Ponharith, spokesman for the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) opposition coalition, told RFA's Khmer ... http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215289152/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 02:48:14 -0400 http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215289152/scat/45d771c7290844e9 The policies and practices of our harsh immigration system violate human rights: basic respect, dignity, safety and needs of ... http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215288132/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 02:16:11 -0400 http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215288132/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Alzheimer's disease is becoming the most expensive malady in the country. Coupled with the numbers in the baby boom generation, the costs of treating it will skyrocket at a rate rarely occurring in chronic diseases. Utah will have the highest per capita prevalence increase of Alzheimer's among all states — a 127 percent increase by 2025. As a result, the "Health Outcomes, ... http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215288754/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 02:16:10 -0400 http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215288754/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Hassan Rowhani isn't likely to dramatically change the face of Iran overnight. While his campaign speeches promised better relations with the West, he has set strict conditions for those relations, including for the United States to back away from efforts to curb Iran's nuclear ... http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215288134/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 02:16:09 -0400 http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215288134/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Cheryl's Apricot Fragipane Galette . Apricots are the finest of summer's fruits, with dense, juicy flesh and delicate, velvety skins. Piled in baskets in farmers market stalls, they seem to glow in the early morning light. The prettiest ones have a celestial blush and a sweet, floral fragrance. That's why it is so disheartening when you bite into one only to find it is ... http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215287230/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 01:19:20 -0400 http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215287230/scat/45d771c7290844e9 A House oversight committee got an earful from state Auditor Suzanne Bump about the apparent inability - or unwillingness - of Patrick administration welfare officials to do the most routine of checks to fight fraud in the EBT program.The governor continued - as recently as yesterday - to insist that there was an element of "exaggeration" in the reporting on claims that 1,164 recipients ... http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215287983/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:54:41 -0400 http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215287983/scat/45d771c7290844e9 United States illegally. Although her two younger children are American citizens and her long-term partner is a legal permanent resident, Sonia, 50, was in the U.S. without legal papers. So when she tried to return after a brief trip to Mexico for the funeral of her eldest son, she was arrested at the border and convicted of illegal entry, a federal crime. After serving a 45-day prison sentence, ... http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215287088/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:40:12 -0400 http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215287088/scat/45d771c7290844e9 US Senate, Washington, DC 20016, USA But we've also had some better-than-expected fiscal news, and that has taken the pressure off Congress. Last month, the Congressional Budget Office estimated that this year's deficit will amount to a mere $642 billion, down 24% from its earlier forecast of $845 billion. And Standard & Poor's has even upgraded the federal government's ... http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215286213/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:45:15 -0400 http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215286213/scat/45d771c7290844e9 The Kremlin has just issued a 12-year plan to address Russia's demographic crisis - that is, its high mortality rate and low birthrate. Buoyed apparently by a recent rise in the birthrate - 1.9 million Russian children were born in 2012, compared with 1.2 million in 1992 - the country has announced that it will give bonuses to families that have more than two children and will provide better ... http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215286212/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:45:14 -0400 http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215286212/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Evgeny Morozov, 27, originally from Belarus, is the author of a new book called "To Save Everything, Click Here." Above: Morozov recently participated in a debate at ... http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215286214/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:45:13 -0400 http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215286214/scat/45d771c7290844e9 BOSTON ... http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215293886/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:46:37 -0400 http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215293886/scat/45d771c7290844e9 The Taliban, more used to lobbing mortars and laying improvised explosive devices on the battlefields of Afghanistan, used a televised address in Doha, Qatar, on Tuesday to declare their interest in a negotiated peace agreement. After nearly three years of stumbling starts, the announcement counts as a breakthrough of sorts. Given ... http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215290051/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:06:46 -0400 http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215290051/scat/45d771c7290844e9 ISTANBUL ... http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215290209/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:06:41 -0400 http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215290209/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Battered by weeks of criticism about surveillance abuses, President Obama has embarked on a reassurance offensive. The spy programs have been used narrowly, he said on ... http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215290599/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:06:38 -0400 http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215290599/scat/45d771c7290844e9 THE stunning election of a pragmatic former Iranian nuclear negotiator, Hassan Rowhani, has offered the Obama administration a once-in-a-lifetime chance to end the atomic stalemate with Iran. In the West, Mr Rowhani is widely seen as a turbaned politico from inside the establishment. One of us has worked for him directly, as his deputy in nuclear talks. The other has conducted research at ... http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215290002/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:01:31 -0400 http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215290002/scat/45d771c7290844e9 WASHINGTON ... http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215287252/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:00:11 -0400 http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215287252/scat/45d771c7290844e9 FAIRHOPE, Ala. ... http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215290596/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:58:26 -0400 http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215290596/scat/45d771c7290844e9 ENJOY the summer break, but don’t forget to pick up a book - often. Summer is a good time to help the very youngest kids hold onto basic literacy skills. Tweens and teens can curl up with a book without fear of having to write a report about it. A collective "hooray" echoing around Puget Sound signals the end of the school year, but the prospect of students falling ... http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215284462/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:49:57 -0400 http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215284462/scat/45d771c7290844e9 The city of Seattle’s contract with the Seattle Police Officers’ Guild should be reopened, as soon as it is signed, to end paying the president’s ... http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215284463/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:49:52 -0400 http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215284463/scat/45d771c7290844e9 To the Editor: An unpaid internship the summer after freshman year of college was one of the most valuable experiences of my life. I developed useful skills, built my résumé and learned I loved working for nonprofit public interest groups. Because of that summer, I applaud Judge William H. Pauley ... http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215297369/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:47:07 -0400 http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215297369/scat/45d771c7290844e9 To the Editor: An unpaid internship the summer after freshman year of college was one of the most valuable experiences of my life. I developed useful skills, built my résumé and learned I loved working for nonprofit public interest groups. Because of that summer, I applaud Judge William H. Pauley ... http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215295554/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:47:07 -0400 http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215295554/scat/45d771c7290844e9 To the Editor: An unpaid internship the summer after freshman year of college was one of the most valuable experiences of my life. I developed useful skills, built my résumé and learned I loved working for nonprofit public interest groups. Because of that summer, I applaud Judge William H. Pauley ... http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215293885/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:47:07 -0400 http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215293885/scat/45d771c7290844e9 To the Editor: An unpaid internship the summer after freshman year of college was one of the most valuable experiences of my life. I developed useful skills, built my résumé and learned I loved working for nonprofit public interest groups. Because of that summer, I applaud Judge William H. Pauley ... http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215290598/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:47:07 -0400 http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215290598/scat/45d771c7290844e9 To the Editor: An unpaid internship the summer after freshman year of college was one of the most valuable experiences of my life. I developed useful skills, built my résumé and learned I loved working for nonprofit public interest groups. Because of that summer, I applaud Judge William H. Pauley ... http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215291523/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:47:07 -0400 http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215291523/scat/45d771c7290844e9 To the Editor: An unpaid internship the summer after freshman year of college was one of the most valuable experiences of my life. I developed useful skills, built my résumé and learned I loved working for nonprofit public interest groups. Because of that summer, I applaud Judge William H. Pauley ... http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215292505/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:47:07 -0400 http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215292505/scat/45d771c7290844e9 To the Editor: Re ... http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215290595/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:47:02 -0400 http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215290595/scat/45d771c7290844e9 To the Editor: Re ... http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215292504/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:47:02 -0400 http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215292504/scat/45d771c7290844e9 To the Editor: Re ... http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215295553/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:47:02 -0400 http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215295553/scat/45d771c7290844e9 To the Editor: Re ... http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215293884/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:47:02 -0400 http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215293884/scat/45d771c7290844e9 To the Editor: Re ... http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215290593/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:47:02 -0400 http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215290593/scat/45d771c7290844e9 To the Editor: Re ... http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215291522/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:47:02 -0400 http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215291522/scat/45d771c7290844e9 To the Editor: ... http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215290592/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:47:02 -0400 http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215290592/scat/45d771c7290844e9 To the Editor: Re ... http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215297368/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:47:02 -0400 http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215297368/scat/45d771c7290844e9 To the Editor: The ability of the Office of Management and Budget to delay important federal agency regulations goes beyond energy efficiency standards for household appliances ... http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215290594/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:47:02 -0400 http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215290594/scat/45d771c7290844e9 To the Editor: As ... http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215290597/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:47:02 -0400 http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215290597/scat/45d771c7290844e9 forced two newspapers and two radio stations to shut down while they conducted a search – and kept them shut. After years of documenting human rights abuses in Uganda, including threats to free expression, I was not impressed by her words. Her claim that the day’s events were grounded in law only further illustrated the government’s emerging practice of citing laws to justify ... http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215283675/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:22:15 -0400 http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215283675/scat/45d771c7290844e9 This citizen journalism image provided by Aleppo Media Center AMC which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows damaged buildings during battles between the rebels and the Syrian government forces, in Aleppo, Syria, June 13, ... http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215283380/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:52:57 -0400 http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215283380/scat/45d771c7290844e9 This same question might fairly be asked about the controversy dominating the news since the leak that revealed the intelligence community’s highly classified electronic surveillance program. Why are we so fascinated with this case? Why are some Americans outraged at the government while others are outraged at the leaker? Why do so many of us have such firm and passionate views about all of ... http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215282471/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:52:56 -0400 http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215282471/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Hasan Rowhani as president of Iran creates a chance for a diplomatic solution to the standoff over that country's potential nuclear-weapons program. But a diplomatic solution is far from a sure ... http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215282472/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:52:54 -0400 http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215282472/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Photo credit: (Getty Images) No one thinks the New York City public school system's 64.7 percent high school graduation rate is a cause for celebration. But when Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced that achievement this week for the Class of 2012, school reformers in every part of every borough felt a powerful sense of relief. That's because members of the Class of 2012 were the ... http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215283384/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:41:01 -0400 http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215283384/scat/45d771c7290844e9 As parents and students struggle to keep up with rising college tuition and take on greater burdens of debt, universities are being challenged to justify the ballooning athletic fees they tack on to the ... http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215280129/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:45:07 -0400 http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215280129/scat/45d771c7290844e9 There was a time not that long ago when it would have seemed far-fetched to suggest that the law should protect gay and lesbian students in public schools from bullying or discrimination. It wasn’t just that homosexuality was still regarded as undesirable, even pathological. There was also a reluctance to recognize that children and adolescents might identify themselves - and be identified ... http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215280128/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:45:07 -0400 http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215280128/scat/45d771c7290844e9 CLOSE ON the TINIEST AND MOST ADORABLE PUPPY, who tilts his head inquisitively, at a distant noise. TINIEST AND MOST ADORABLE PUPPY (grimly): .... Wurf? crash through the rear wall, which causes the ceiling to crumble. Screams. Blood. Silence. Standing unhurt atop the rubble, WONDER ... http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215280130/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:41:50 -0400 http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215280130/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Non-Western philosophy is typically represented in philosophy curricula in a merely token way. Western philosophy is always the unmarked category, the standard in relation to which non-Western philosophy provides a useful ... http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215280131/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:41:49 -0400 http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215280131/scat/45d771c7290844e9 FILE - In this Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013 file photo, Indian women carry signs as they march to mourn the death of a gang rape victim in New Delhi, India. For decades, women have had little choice but to walk away when groped in a crowded bus or train, or to simply cringe as someone tosses an obscene comment their way. Even if they haven't experienced explicit sexual abuse themselves, they live ... http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215280132/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:34:57 -0400 http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215280132/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Graduation advice for my daughter: Bless people. Don’t worry about impressing them. And when God blesses you, enjoy the blessing and be ... http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215278872/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:28:43 -0400 http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215278872/scat/45d771c7290844e9 The elections of the Islamic Republic of Iran have lead to a surprising — to some at least — result: The election of ';moderate'; Hassan Rowhani over various hardline candidates. The election, unnoticed by many until the results were announced, has resulted in a flurry of opinions on how Rowhani's election will shape and change policies with Iran. Some, such as ... http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215278873/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:28:40 -0400 http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215278873/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Even as Syria’s nightmare continues, policy makers should consider the country’s future once hostilities end. Those planning for Syria’s "day after" should learn a lesson from the past and avoid an approach just adopted in Libya, and before that in Iraq, that will widen divisions rather than heal the wounds. Libya’s parliament recently voted to bar many ... http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215278952/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:02:58 -0400 http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215278952/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Freedom of Expression Corruption and Financial Accountability Abuses in the Extractives Sector Absence of the Rule of Law Annex D: Ethiopia, Aspiring EITI ... http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215278724/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:02:58 -0400 http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215278724/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Sevan Nisanyan, a Turkish-Armenian journalist, wrote a blog entry last September stating that critical comments about religion don’t constitute hate speech. "Making fun of an Arab leader who claimed he contacted God hundreds of years ago and received political, financial and sexual benefits is not hate speech," he said. "It is an almost kindergarten-level test of what is ... http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215279256/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:02:58 -0400 http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215279256/scat/45d771c7290844e9 To the Editor: With the expansion of coverage under the Affordable Care Act set to take effect next year, the United States is facing an alarming physician shortage. We ... http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215290591/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:35:14 -0400 http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215290591/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Marcin de Kaminsky also belongs to a community of Net activists and 'hacktivists'. De Kaminsky is co-founder of Telecomix, a network which showed Egyptian human rights activists how to circumvent government surveillance and communicate safely during the Arab Spring. Speaking with Robin David, de Kaminsky discussed how democracies justify online surveillance, how citizens become ... http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215278621/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:18:00 -0400 http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215278621/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Markandey Katju , was appointed chairman of the Press Council. He hit the ground running, called journalists ignorant and the media unreliable and worse. The current attack on the media started around then. Katju persistently sought to drum up a debate on media ethics, while making a pitch for more powers for ... http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215278620/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:17:59 -0400 http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215278620/scat/45d771c7290844e9 National Security Agency (NSA) exposed as exploiting domestic tech giants to monitor phone and internet activity of hundreds of millions across the world. Now the leaks have done the same to the just concluded G8 summit. It's been reported that delegates of all the attending countries were subjected to systematic spying at their 2009 G20 meetings in London, where NSA tied up with British ... http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215278622/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:17:58 -0400 http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215278622/scat/45d771c7290844e9 The Prime Minister also stole some of Brussels' thunder by announcing the start of talks on what could be a truly world-changing trade treaty between the EU and the US - an agreement, what is more, that might even persuade sceptical Britons that the UK is better in the EU than out. Not bad, it might be judged, for a bare 24 hours' work. The landscape was easy on the eye, too - about as ... http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215277628/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:15:08 -0400 http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215277628/scat/45d771c7290844e9 It was neither a scuttle nor a rout. Taking place a year-and-a-half before Nato's planned withdrawal, yesterday's handover to Afghan state forces, though tainted by yet another terrorist attack, could be described as dignified. Both Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the Nato Secretary-General, and President Hamid Karzai found optimistic words to mark the ... http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215277630/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:15:05 -0400 http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215277630/scat/45d771c7290844e9 I was profoundly moved to meet these women and girls, most from poor, rural backgrounds, who had suffered severe physical and social consequences because of this largely preventable illness. Mourning the stillbirth of their babies, ashamed of the fetid odour they produced, having lost a chance at education, being confined to their homes, they were left feeling hopeless, depressed and ... http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215278623/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:55:27 -0400 http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215278623/scat/45d771c7290844e9 In 2000, I greeted the first entering graduate-student class at Berkeley where the women outnumbered the men. I was the first female dean of the graduate division. As a ‘70s feminist I cautiously thought, "Is the revolution over? Have we won?" Hardly. That afternoon I looked around the room at my first dean’s meeting and all I saw were gray-haired men. The next week at the ... http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215276233/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:24:32 -0400 http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215276233/scat/45d771c7290844e9 While the U.S. has checks and balances that regulate how the state eavesdrops on its citizens, Russia has none. The FSB has control centers that are connected by cables directly to operators' computer servers. To monitor particular phone conversations or Internet communications, an FSB agent only has to enter a command into the control center located in the local FSB headquarters. That ... http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215277360/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:56:08 -0400 http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215277360/scat/45d771c7290844e9 My wife almost lost her leg a few weeks ago. Then she almost lost her life. The symptoms didn't seem life-threatening at the time, so we almost made a fatal mistake by delaying seeking medical treatment. Since then, we've learned about the dangers of another "silent killer" you might not be familiar with: Deep vein thrombosis (DVT). My wife developed severe leg cramps while ... http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215276296/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:53:59 -0400 http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215276296/scat/45d771c7290844e9 How many snapper should anyone be allowed to catch in a day's fishing? Readers who do not go fishing for fun might be surprised at the bag limit: nine. That seems an excessively generous allowance for every person out fishing, yet the recreational fishing lobby is aggrieved at proposals to reduce the permitted catch in response to diminishing stocks in the Hauraki Gulf, east of Northland and the ... http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215276616/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:30:00 -0400 http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215276616/scat/45d771c7290844e9 While being treated for brain cancer in 2009, my friend Jackie and her family were well served by the Richard M. Schulze American Cancer Society Hope Lodge. It's a well-appointed, comforting home away from home for cancer patients at University of Minnesota Medical Center/Fairview. That personal connection with the generosity ... http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215274802/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:16:29 -0400 http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215274802/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Vladimir Putin made a truly sensational statement by revealing the real reason for the Russia-Georgia war of August 2008. Apparently, Russia delivered a preventative strike to liquidate international terrorists who were sent by Georgian forces to penetrate Russian territory. Putin said the terrorists advanced to positions 30 kilometers south of Sochi before they were eliminated. "About six ... http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215275954/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:49:16 -0400 http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215275954/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Some critics complain that U.S. President Barack Obama campaigned on inspirational rhetoric and an ambition to "bend the arc of history" but then turned out to be a transactional and pragmatic leader once in office. In this respect, however, Obama is hardly unique. Many leaders change their objectives and style over the course of their careers. One of the great transformational leaders ... http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215275955/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:49:14 -0400 http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215275955/scat/45d771c7290844e9 On Tuesday (18 June), the German chancellor and the US president will embrace each other. Eyes will be shining as both sides praise the German-American friendship. After all, this visit from Washington is an election campaign present for Angela Merkel, and the president can hope for symbolic pictures to build his own legend. At the same time, the two of them have an enormous quandary: Obama is ... http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215275956/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:39:19 -0400 http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215275956/scat/45d771c7290844e9 On 15 June, Uganda’s president, Yoweri Museveni, joined the ‘10,000 Club’, a small coterie of world leaders who have held power for over 10,000 days – more than 27 years. In Africa, only Teodoro Obiang of Equatorial Guinea, Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, and Jose Eduardo Dos Santos of Angola have remained in office longer. Museveni is not in good company: each controls ... http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215273279/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:33:02 -0400 http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215273279/scat/45d771c7290844e9 View results CONSCIENCE AND ITS ENEMIES: CONFRONTING THE DOGMAS OF LIBERAL SECULARISMBy Robert P. GeorgeISI Books, $29.95, 290 pagesRobert Peter George has to be one of the most civilized people laboring around these parts to make sense of the muddle we call modern life. The word ';civilized'; I use in its, shall we say, civilized sense - as marking ownership of, or attachment to, ... http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215272887/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:05:57 -0400 http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215272887/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Dueling interventions in Syria. Patrick Chappatte is an editorial cartoonist for the International Herald Tribune. View more of his work, visit his Web site or follow him on ... http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215272893/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:07:25 -0400 http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215272893/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Protesters block the road and set off fireworks, after they burned two vehicles belonging to the Libyan Army's First Infantry Brigade in Benghazi June 14, 2013. The protesters said they had burnt the vehicles, both of which belonged to the Libyan Army's First Infantry Brigade, as they accused the brigade of being responsible for clashes that broke out at the headquarters of the Libya ... http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215270513/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 09:57:42 -0400 http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215270513/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Society for Philosophy and Psychology , affectionately known as "SPP." Daniel Dennett was in the seat just ahead of me; additional luminaries were scattered about the room. A quick count revealed about equal numbers of men and women in the audience -- an unusual figure for an event in philosophy, ... http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215270403/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 09:52:53 -0400 http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215270403/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Victoria J. married in 2009 at age 14, and became pregnant shortly after. "I started labour in the morning on a Friday …. The nurse kept checking and saying I would deliver safely. On Monday she said I was weak. "The doctor decided to operate on me. (During the) operation they found the baby was dead. The doctor said the baby had died due to the long labour. After that, I found ... http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215270417/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 09:21:19 -0400 http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215270417/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Do Europeans want to die any more than Americans do in a terrorist attack? I ... http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215272892/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 09:08:21 -0400 http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215272892/scat/45d771c7290844e9 ... http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215290590/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 08:59:46 -0400 http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215290590/scat/45d771c7290844e9 The running shoe is all wrong for the human foot, so Orem's Golden Harper came up with a solution — a radically different shoe called Altra that is expected to do $20 million in sales this year and challenge the big brand names in the ... http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215269182/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 08:42:40 -0400 http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215269182/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Iranians went to the polls on Friday in what turned out to be ... http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215271967/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 08:35:41 -0400 http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215271967/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Arizona argued that the law was needed to prevent voter fraud by immigrants who don't qualify to vote. and that it was not pre-empted by federal rules because it was consistent with Congress' intent of protecting the integrity of elections. Such arguments are unpersuasive. As the U.S. ... http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215270110/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 08:27:09 -0400 http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215270110/scat/45d771c7290844e9 My new raised-bed vegetable garden ... http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215272741/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 08:03:01 -0400 http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215272741/scat/45d771c7290844e9 View results The House is expected to consider this week the reauthorization of the farm bill, a multiyear plan for the future of American farming. While much of the media coverage of the debate in the Senate centered on nutrition programs, an important battle is brewing in the House regarding dairy policy.As the House Agriculture Committee debated dairy policy, Chairman Frank D. Lucas, Oklahoma ... http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215267765/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 06:48:38 -0400 http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215267765/scat/45d771c7290844e9 View results As soon as the results of the Iranian elections were announced, the world’s media proclaimed that a ';moderate and reformist'; cleric, Hasan Rowhani, would become the new president of Iran.Not so. Mr. Rowhani is every bit as brutal and deceitful as the clerical regime that has murderously cracked down on its people for decades.For 33 years, the mullahs who dominate ... http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215267766/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 06:48:37 -0400 http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215267766/scat/45d771c7290844e9 View results A wit once observed a persistent truth: ';Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.'; That has been especially the case with respect to ';space weather'; - a phenomenon associated with intense solar activity, known by scientists as coronal mass ejections and popularly as solar flares. If oriented in the wrong direction, one of these ... http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215267767/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 06:48:36 -0400 http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215267767/scat/45d771c7290844e9 View results It’s amazing that there are those - including The New York Times - that continue to prop up the flawed finger-pointing of the Internal Revenue Service, blaming a couple of rogue agents out of its Cincinnati office for the unlawful targeting of conservative groups.The New York Times - along with the IRS - is simply wrong in their assertion that this scandal is based in, and ... http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215267769/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 06:48:35 -0400 http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215267769/scat/45d771c7290844e9 View results The key to success in business is making products that beat the competition. Government just makes rules, and drives up costs for competitors. Despite President Obama’s happy talk about the nation having achieved the highest proportion of domestic oil and gas production in 20 years, his administration is tipping the scale further in favor of fringe energy sources over ... http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215267768/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 06:48:35 -0400 http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215267768/scat/45d771c7290844e9 View results Americans are hard to lead politically, but they will follow reason. That is a lesson the country has repeatedly taught those aspiring to lead it. It is now one that Republicans should take to heart as they address the Obama administration’s sudden onslaught of scandals.Early in its second term, the Obama White House risks going from being seemingly garbed in Teflon to wearing ... http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215267770/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 06:48:34 -0400 http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215267770/scat/45d771c7290844e9 We’ve urged the state Senate to pick up the pace on welfare reforms and happily they’ve obliged. A bill released by Senate leaders at midday yesterday is set for a full debate Thursday. As promised, the Senate is taking a broad approach; call it "Welfare Reform II," after the 1995 crackdown that introduced a stronger work requirement for recipients of public assistance.The ... http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215266999/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 06:17:31 -0400 http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215266999/scat/45d771c7290844e9 The chaotic scenes at the trial of a man charged over inter-ethnic violence in Kyrgyzstan are damaging the legal process, reports Mihra Rittmann. Even in the basement of the courthouse, safe behind a closed door, I’m sure the defendant could still hear the women screaming at him. I certainly could hear the women, standing just metres away, and I definitely felt their violent rage as one ... http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215266754/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 05:06:15 -0400 http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215266754/scat/45d771c7290844e9 abundant subsidized finance from the Federal government is keeping the system going. As a banker-journalist of 40 years' experience, I can tell you: higher education looks like a bubble about to burst. Countless studies have shown there to be around a 50% salary premium for obtaining a four-year bachelor's degree, compared with high-school graduates. On that comparison rests the ... http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215266755/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 05:03:51 -0400 http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215266755/scat/45d771c7290844e9 the Gulf, gathered in Cairo to study plans to call for an international appeal for jihad in Syria. On June 4, Al-Arabiya, a Saudi-financed television channel that is usually liberal, hosted conservative leader Sheikh Youssef Qaradawi, who is based in Doha, Qatar, to urge support for jihad against Hezbollah forces who are fighting alongside Assad's forces in Syria. The spike in religious ... http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215266168/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 05:00:43 -0400 http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215266168/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Jim Lobe WASHINGTON - The surprise victory of Hassan Rouhani in Iran's June 14 election has provoked a range of reactions here, ranging from cautious optimism about possible detente between Tehran and Washington to outright rejection of the notion that his presidency will produce any substantive change in policy, foreign or domestic. While most Iran specialists fall into the former ... http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215266169/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 05:00:42 -0400 http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215266169/scat/45d771c7290844e9 By Jim Lobe WASHINGTON - Deepening security ties between East Asian nations offer substantial benefits to the United States as it "rebalances" its military forces towards the Asia-Pacific region, so long as the move is not perceived as a US-led effort to contain China, according to a new report by a think tank close to the administration of President Barack Obama. The report, ... http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215265795/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 03:58:11 -0400 http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215265795/scat/45d771c7290844e9 By Mina Habib Analysts say a recent visit to Tehran by a Taliban delegation is a clear indication of Iran's intention to boost its influence in Afghanistan following next year's pull-out of North Atlantic Treaty Organization forces. The Taliban were keen to portray the meeting, which involved a delegation attending an Islamic conference, as a parallel government engaging in formal ... http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215265794/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 03:58:11 -0400 http://www.neworleanssun.com/index.php/sid/215265794/scat/45d771c7290844e9