Provides the latest RSS feeds for General Editorials. For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Israel Herald.com http://www.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/10/id/45d771c7290844e9/ en-us Sun, 05 Feb 2012 02:21:07 -0500 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 02:21:07 -0500 30 Mexican police have arrested Jose Antonio Torres Marrufo, who is alleged to have masterminded drug exportation and murders. http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203241420/cs/1/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:59:10 -0500 Israel Herald.com http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203241420/cs/1/ Duquesne snapped a 14-game losing streak against Richmond Saturday night, beating the Spiders 81-72 in the Chuck Cooper Classic at the A.J. Palumbo Center. Duquesne dominated the boards 39-31, shot ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203244588/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 23:09:13 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203244588/ In a big win for environmentalists and the planet, the administration of United States President Barack Obama announced on January 20 that it would deny a permit to build the Keystone XL pipeline to ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203242244/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:02:50 -0500 Green Left Online http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203242244/ Participants in the January 14-15 anti-nuclear conference in Tokyo. Photo by John Tutty. Five anti-nuclear activists travelled from Australia to attend the Global Conference for a Nuclear Power Free ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203242022/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:02:49 -0500 Green Left Online http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203242022/ . That is surely a clue that the people Abbott directed his "unAustralian" jibe at were never exactly aspiring to win any "fair dinkum Aussie" award. These are people who have ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203243110/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:02:49 -0500 Green Left Online http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203243110/ Spain ’s 1936-39 civil war that no court has yet examined or judged. No one knows how many people were taken away, tortured and murdered. Now, one of Spain’s top investigating ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203242216/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:35:13 -0500 New York Times http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203242216/ INDIANAPOLIS -- The road for the Pro Football Hall of Fame Class of 2012, selected here Saturday and inducted in Canton, Ohio, this summer, must go through Pittsburgh. Of the six new Hall of ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203243109/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:14:42 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203243109/ Palo Alto, Calif. THE other day, while I was rummaging through a stack of oldish articles on the future of the Internet, an obscure little essay from 1998 - published, of all places, on a Web s http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203243108/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:12:45 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203243108/ As the world has grown smaller while our passion for novelty has expanded, our curiosity about different cultures, particularly those relatively untouched by what we deem "civilisation", ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203240284/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:41:33 -0500 The Guardian http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203240284/ On Tuesday, if history is any guide, several tens of thousands of Minnesotans will join others who are more or less like-minded politically for a biennial event known as the precinct caucus. ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203238728/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:30:41 -0500 Star Tribune http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203238728/ Last week they finally came -- Rick Santorum to Luverne, Mitt Romney to Eagan, and Ron Paul to Rochester, Chanhassen and Arden Hills. Anybody sighted a Newt? The Republican presidential nomination ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203238727/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:30:38 -0500 Star Tribune http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203238727/ Thorough reform of the way Minnesota taxes businesses is at least a year away at the State Capitol. But for understandable economic and election-year reasons, the political itch is intensifying to ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203238729/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:30:34 -0500 Star Tribune http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203238729/ The Legislature's careful and limited use of private meetings to create safe space and the need for "sunshine" are not irreconcilable. We must have both. Sunshine should be the ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203238730/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:30:29 -0500 Star Tribune http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203238730/ The ugly partisanship displayed by Senate Republicans during the first days of this year's legislative session was extremely disappointing. It belied their professed desire to work ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203238731/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:30:25 -0500 Star Tribune http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203238731/ It was in the 1970s, and I was 20 years old. On a cold November night, my friend and I were walking to our car in an adjacent parking lot in our small hometown in Minnesota, when a man jumped us ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203238732/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:30:20 -0500 Star Tribune http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203238732/ Fabio Capello , noted fan of opera, and collector of art, will be pondering the question of team spirit. He'll think of Steven Gerrard, who punched a disc jockey in the face as the man walked ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203238968/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:20:48 -0500 The Guardian http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203238968/ The writers Donald Antrim, Chad Harbach and Susan Orlean - three of the millions who will watch the Super Bowl today - chat about the appeal of sports. (This online conversation has been edited for ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203239738/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:18:04 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203239738/ A BATTLE between a class of fourth graders and a major movie studio would seem an unequal fight. http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203238626/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:43:28 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203238626/ Moscow http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203238891/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:43:15 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203238891/ WASHINGTON http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203239897/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:42:46 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203239897/ Boston Bruins' Daniel Paille is tripped up between the Penguins' Tyler Kennedy, left and Brooks Orpik (44) during the second period of this afternoon's game in ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203239899/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:33:29 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203239899/ During an artillery barrage last Nov. 11, Yemeni security forces killed 13 civilians in the city of Taizz. One of them was a patient at al-Rawdha Hospital, which mortar rounds and tank fire struck ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203238913/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:29:05 -0500 Human Rights Watch http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203238913/ Should capital gains and dividends be treated like ordinary income? Readers discuss the pros and cons of tax preferences. http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203239896/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:30:39 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203239896/ THE tale of an exceptional scholar-athlete torn between playing his final football game and competing for a Rhodes scholarship gave way to a darker story in The Times recently - one involving ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203239694/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:28:31 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203239694/ LAST week, Facebook filed documents with the government that will allow it to sell shares of stock to the public. It is estimated to be worth at least $75 billion. But unlike other big-ticket ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203239677/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:27:06 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203239677/ The Supreme Court underscored its power to shape American life when it took major cases about the health care reform law, Arizona's anti-immigrant law and the Voting Rights Act in an election year. ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203237028/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:04:35 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203237028/ From book publishers like Macmillan to Hollywood studios like Disney, producers of content are deeply frustrated by the defeat of their efforts to curb online piracy in Congress last month. The bill ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203238401/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:02:03 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203238401/ It is only a first step toward healing the economy's biggest open wound, but President Obama's new mortgage refinancing plan could provide considerable relief for millions of homeowners shackled to ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203238198/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:00:18 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203238198/ THE word "dyslexia" evokes painful struggles with reading, and indeed this learning disability causes much difficulty for the estimated 15 percent of Americans affected by it. Since the phenomenon ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203238467/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 15:59:24 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203238467/ Attorneys representing a man who was sentenced to death more than two decades ago in the murder of a waitress in Fayette County are trying to stop prosecutors from retrying the defendant. A federal ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203236874/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:17:39 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203236874/ MORE people live alone than at any other time in history. In prosperous American cities - Atlanta, Denver, Seattle, San Francisco and Minneapolis - 40 percent or more of all households contain a ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203236627/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 12:50:43 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203236627/ A Cambria County man driving on the wrong side of the road was killed overnight in a head-on collision, according to Pennsylvania State Police. Brian Polk, 34, of Salix was driving a minivan south ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203235031/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 10:59:40 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203235031/ Melissa Gilbert basically grew up on television. For 10 years she played Half Pint, the nickname for her character Laura Ingalls Wilder on the long-running "Little House on the Prairie" ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203235033/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 10:59:39 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203235033/ Fans line up outside Beaver Stadium to see their team enter the stadium before the start of their team's game against Nebraska today. One sign commented on the sex abuse reporting scandal that ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203235032/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 10:59:38 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203235032/ February 4, 2012 I would like to rise up today in defense of Diet Coke. All diet sodas, in fact. But Diet Coke happens to be my favorite. I like the stuff. Cracking open a can of it, or pouring ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203231481/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:25:59 -0500 NPR http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203231481/ Black Deaths in Custody Watch Group meeting. Wed Mar 28, 5.30pm, Link Up Queensland Aboriginal Corporation Centre 1/18 Scott Street, Parramatta Park. Ph 4041 ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203233155/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:17:42 -0500 Green Left Online http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203233155/ Roy Police detectives walk in front of Roy High School Jan. 26, 2012, in Roy, Utah. Congratulations to Bailey Gerhardt for her bravery for possibly saving the lives of many of our precious youth ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203231482/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:12:24 -0500 Deseret News http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203231482/ Loser-Winner: Groundhog Day is a time for silliness in Punxsutawney, Pa., which is pretty much the point of the whole Punxsutawney Phil shtick each year. The losers in this case are the news ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203231486/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:12:10 -0500 Deseret News http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203231486/ Do city elections matter? Are the voices of the people really heard? We are about to find out. On Jan. 3, 2012, three council members were sworn in to the Salt Lake City government, two new and one ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203231487/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:12:06 -0500 Deseret News http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203231487/ No one should be surprised that the Tin Man has a tin ear. http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203233143/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 08:57:09 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203233143/ The Duquesne City School District is in limbo, and state education officials owe its taxpayers, parents, students and employees an explanation -- and a plan. It's been more than three months ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203233150/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 08:22:31 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203233150/ Somalia is a basket case on a continent with more than its share of misery. Other African countries riven by problems have governments that more or less control their territories, however badly they ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203233151/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 08:22:30 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203233151/ Republican U.S. Sen. Scott Brown and likely Democratic nominee Elizabeth Warren don't see eye to eye on much, but they agree it would be good to discourage money used by special interests to ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203233152/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 08:22:29 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203233152/ Trouble prompted by the Arab Spring has been stirring in Syria for 10 months now. The government of President Bashar al-Assad has been under siege, pretty much across the country of 21 million, ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203233154/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 08:22:28 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203233154/ In an environment where nepotism barely raises an eyebrow, the actions of Allegheny County President Judge Donna Jo McDaniel are all the more eye-popping because they go so far beyond routine, ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203233153/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 08:22:28 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203233153/ How America made its children crazy By Spengler Now we know that computers don't help children learn and that drugs don't help them concentrate, because the establishment mandarins who ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203233146/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 08:12:17 -0500 Asia Times http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203233146/ Bernanke merits a rant Commentary and weekly watch by Doug NolandIt has been labeled an intellectual exercise and ridiculed as "intelligentsia". I'll stick defiantly to the view ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203233148/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 08:12:16 -0500 Asia Times http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203233148/ What we said: "The Susan G. Komen foundation has made a highly regrettable - and transparently political - decision to cut off funding for Planned Parenthood. Komen should reverse its ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203228350/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 05:16:30 -0500 San Francisco Chronicle http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203228350/ 49ers will go forward with their plan for a new stadium in Santa Clara. Barring a major setback - such as construction delays, or a legal ruling against changes from the deal Santa Clara voters ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203228352/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 05:16:23 -0500 San Francisco Chronicle http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203228352/ "UCSF scientists take bitter view of sugar in food" (Feb. 2): War on sugar is not a solution to America's health problems. Sugar comes in many different forms (honey, fruit juice, ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203228353/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 05:16:09 -0500 San Francisco Chronicle http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203228353/ LONDON -- Memo to Brazil: That idea of putting up a giant Jesus statue in a London park to promote the 2016 Olympic Games is not going over well. Brazil's tourist board has floated the notion ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203231140/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 04:49:03 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203231140/ INDIANAPOLIS -- Three decades after his Coke commercial won advertising's version of the Oscar, Joe Greene and his No. 75 Steelers jersey make a comeback in another Super Bowl spot on ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203231139/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 04:49:02 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203231139/ When legalized casino gambling was being pushed in Pennsylvania, one of its selling points was sizable tax relief for property owners. But in gambling you put your money down and take your chance -- ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203231141/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 04:49:01 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203231141/ The African Union, by not being able to agree on a secretary general, has showed new cracks in continental unity. The AU was formed 10 years ago to try to cure some of the flaws in the old ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203231142/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 04:49:00 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203231142/ To the Editor: "What's He Got to Hide?," by Nicholas D. Kristof (column, Jan. 29), is intended to incite opposition to the government of Ethiopia, when it would be far better to assist the gove http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203231691/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 02:23:03 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203231691/ Reagan Resolve'; concisely outlines his major principles and actions so today’s policymakers can take a page from it.Let’s begin with a contrast. When ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203227298/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:52:26 -0500 Washington Times http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203227298/ Ronald Reagan , who would have turned 101 on Feb. 6, no doubt would have been amused by the number and ideological diversity of people claiming some part of the Reagan ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203227299/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:52:25 -0500 Washington Times http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203227299/ Amazon pulled out, leaving the state poorer for its greed. Even a big state like California wasn’t able to get away with this. ';The rich'; might ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203227311/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:52:08 -0500 Washington Times http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203227311/ Ronald Reagan to have been one of the great presidents of the 20th century - indeed, one of the greatest of all time. Even professors are coming around. Though they’re not as enthusiastic as ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203227300/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:52:08 -0500 Washington Times http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203227300/ Canada is a middle power. The U.S. dollar is a major currency, whereas the Canadian dollar is a decent-sized currency. The American financial markets have long had a direct impact on the global ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203227301/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:52:06 -0500 Washington Times http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203227301/ White House .Romneycare is the blueprint for Obamacare and shares its top-down, government-run fundamentals. At its core is the individual mandate that criminalizes anyone who refuses to purchase ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203227302/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:52:03 -0500 Washington Times http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203227302/ White House enjoys a good news day.';The recovery is speeding up,'; President Obama declared. However, the broader measures tell a different story. The employment-to-population ratio, the ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203227312/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:52:01 -0500 Washington Times http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203227312/ Washington http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203231727/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:47:04 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203231727/ The Arab Spring was the biggest story in the Middle East in 2011. Unfortunately, it's still difficult to report on its aftermath in many of the nations most impacted by the pan-Arabic protest ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203222303/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:45:59 -0500 Star Tribune http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203222303/ Traveling through my beloved former hometown of Minneapolis recently, I was appalled to pick up the Star Tribune and find an Opinion Exchange section cover article about missing conservatives in ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203222304/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:45:53 -0500 Star Tribune http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203222304/ The problem with Mitt Romney's latest boneheaded statement -- "I'm not concerned about the very poor" -- isn't the ammunition it gives political opponents eager to yank the ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203222305/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:45:48 -0500 Star Tribune http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203222305/ I was disappointed in many aspects of Jack Schneider's Feb. 1 commentary ("No magic solution for schools"), which described Teach For America as aspiring to eliminate the achievement ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203222306/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:45:42 -0500 Star Tribune http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203222306/ This week we had a huge political fight about breast cancer. Clearly, we have now hit the point where there's nothing that can't be divided into red-state-blue-state. http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203233142/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:43:03 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203233142/ To the Editor: http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203238466/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:43:03 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203238466/ To the Editor: David S. Reynolds says, "Seventh-day Adventists have often set dates for the end of the world that have come and gone" ("Why Evangelicals Don't Like Mormons," Op-Ed, Jan. 25). http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203236971/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:43:03 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203236971/ Higher education institutions are predictably cool to President Obama's proposal to shift federal aid away from colleges that fail to control rising tuition. Even though the details of his plan, ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203233141/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:36:57 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203233141/ In a politically wise turnabout, the Senate did the right thing on Thursday in approving a long-needed ban on Congressional lawmakers and staffers using confidential information they pick up as ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203233140/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:36:57 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203233140/ The posturing and saber rattling from both Iran and Israel are getting frightening. http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203233793/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:36:57 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203233793/ . "But it's entirely unrealistic to believe that you just tell your kids, and a light goes off in their head - 'Oh, yeah, dad, you're right; I get it.' In your dreams. ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203221720/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:26:07 -0500 Green Left Online http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203221720/ Over the Australia Day long weekend in 2012, the Refugee Rights Action Network took a bus and 40 people to the Leonora Detention Centre. This event will give feedback on our experiences and ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203227309/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:26:05 -0500 Green Left Online http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203227309/ A Socialist Alliance and Resistance meeting taking up questions including: What attitude should the 99% take to the media? How can democratic control over the media coexist with a "free ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203222263/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:26:04 -0500 Green Left Online http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203222263/ Western Sydney-based rapper Sesk. Photo: Mat Ward. You can see that western Sydney Aboriginal rapper Sesk has turned his life around when he holds his head up high. Not only does it give him an air ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203227310/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:26:02 -0500 Green Left Online http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203227310/ 1. UCSF scientists declare war on sugar in food 2. Peyton Manning as 49er makes sense, but not enough 3. Morford: Please do not eat this 4. North Bay girl died of 'date rape' drug ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203222310/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:38:48 -0500 San Francisco Chronicle http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203222310/ It says something about the brazen attitude of American politicians that Congress enacted a measure to create a program that was impossible to implement - and named it the CLASS Act. CLASS stands ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203222311/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:38:39 -0500 San Francisco Chronicle http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203222311/ France can't seem to decide how quickly it will withdraw its troops from Afghanistan after a rogue Afghan soldier opened fire on unarmed French soldiers, killing four and wounding 15. Over the ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203222312/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:38:32 -0500 San Francisco Chronicle http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203222312/ its economy is reeling . The administration was right to warn Iran against any attempt to close the Strait of Hormuz. We hope it is also looking to privately persuade Iran of the need for a ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203223000/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:36:38 -0500 New York Times http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203223000/ Cartoonist and artist Lalo Alcaraz is the creator of the first nationally-syndicated, politically-themed Latino daily comic strip, "La ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203227306/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:33:41 -0500 Los Angeles Times http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203227306/ Cal State Northridge , to write:"The question should not be whether students are learning but rather what they are learning."Any dedicated student who has struggled and passed calculus, ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203227307/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:33:33 -0500 Los Angeles Times http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203227307/ Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich delivers his concession speech after losing the hotly-contested state of Florida to rival Mitt ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203227308/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:33:30 -0500 Los Angeles Times http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203227308/ P resident Barack Obama, obsessed with raising taxes on "millionaires and billionaires," ignores the facts of history. He told ABC’s Diane Sawyer last week that our country now has ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203227296/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:24:38 -0500 Boston Herald http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203227296/ T he turmoil that continues to roil the Middle East could eventually determine whether Turkey falls to extreme Islamist rule. The government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203227297/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:24:36 -0500 Boston Herald http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203227297/ Pitt fans can get ready for a basketball rivalry with Maryland and a renewal of the old Big East football rivalry with Virginia Tech. Those are two of the highlights of the future scheduling formats ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203227293/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:02:28 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203227293/ Federal marshals this afternoon captured a Wilmerding man accused of hitting his wife in the head with a gun and pointing it at his 11-year-old stepdaughter. Jonathan Deanes, 32, was arrested about ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203227294/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:02:27 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203227294/ WASHINGTON -- The Air Force today announced plans to close the 911th Airlift Wing in Moon within the next two years, moving two of its seven C-130 transport planes to other bases and retiring the ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203227295/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:02:26 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203227295/