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Drone policy has received little outside review

By Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times Feb. 9 at 5:21 p.m.

When it comes to national security, Michael V. Hayden is no shrinking violet. As CIA director, he ran the Bush administration’s program of warrantless wiretaps against suspected terrorists.

  • Why U.S. should worry about an Israeli strike on Iran

    By Trudy Rubin, Philadelphia Inquirer | Feb. 9 at 1:49 p.m.

    Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is refreshingly frank, sometimes stunningly so. He outdid himself on a trip to Europe last week, making headlines on two sensitive topics.

  • Is it the best of times or the worst of times?

    By Lane Filler, Newsday | Feb. 8 at 3:49 p.m.

    Charles Dickens was born 200 years ago this week, and I wonder how he’d react if he were to see the current United States. He might be amazed to find that the issues he dealt with in works such as “David Copperfield,” “Great Expectations,” “Hard Times” and even “A Christmas Carol” are the same ones that shape our current political clashes.

  • Team Obama shows dangerous penchant for hubris

    By Albert R. Hunt, Bloomberg News | Feb. 8 at 6:16 p.m.

    President Obama is headed for political turbulence.

  • Despite the rhetoric, tax cuts increase the deficit

    By Ezra Klein, Washington Post | Feb. 7 at 3:24 p.m.

    Last week House Republicans unanimously rejected a resolution from Rep. Gary Peters, D-Mich., stating, among other things, that the Bush tax cuts added to the deficit. If you read the text they were voting on, it’s pretty clear that it wasn’t built for bipartisanship: It’s phrased to suggest that Bush was a liar and Republican governance was a fraud. That kind of thing doesn’t pick up votes across the aisle.

  • Obama misapplied Scripture to political goals

    By Cal Thomas, Tribune Media Services | Feb. 7 at 5:21 p.m.

    For 60 years, the National Prayer Breakfast has been a nonpolitical event where speakers put aside their earthly biases and focus on a Higher Authority. Last week President Obama departed from that tradition to claim the endorsement of Jesus for raising taxes. It beat the endorsement of Mitt Romney by Donald Trump.

  • Abortion, contraception battles raise other concerns

    By Kathleen Parker, Washington Post | Feb. 6 at 4:39 p.m.

    Two of the top news stories this past week have revolved around reproductive rights, though both raise far more troubling issues than a woman’s right to contraception or abortion.

  • Consumer bureau’s structure needs reforming

    By Sen. Pat Roberts | Feb. 6 at 6:15 p.m.

    If you’ve watched the news lately, you know that there’s great controversy over President Obama’s recent “recess” appointment of Richard Cordray to be the director of the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. You might be asking yourself, “Why the controversy over an agency dedicated to consumer financial protection in the wake of MF Global and other financial scandals? It must be a good thing, right?”

  • Rest in love, peace … and soul

    By Leonard Pitts, Miami Herald | Feb. 3 at 4:56 p.m.

    This was for us.

  • How lowering taxes on rich can raise revenue

    By Amity Shlaes, Bloomberg News | Feb. 3 at 5:17 p.m.

    Tax the rich. Forever. And not just in election years. The general assumption is that rate increases will be the new norm. The main reason for this is said to be democracy itself.

  • Market solutions best for Wichita

    By Bob Weeks | Feb. 3 at 5:22 p.m.

    In his State of the City address last week, Wichita Mayor Carl Brewer spoke on several topics that deserve discussion. As an example, several times he criticized those who act on “partisan agendas.” Partisan refers to following a party line, usually with a negative connotation.

  • SRS out of excuses on food-stamp rule

    By Mary Sanchez, Kansas City Star | Feb. 3 at 5:22 p.m.

    Kansas is running out of excuses.

  • Governing challenge

    By H. Edward Flentje | Feb. 3 at 5:22 p.m.

    Gov. Sam Brownback deserves credit for tackling big, difficult spending issues – school finance, public pensions and Medicaid – but the road ahead may be rocky. As a key Brownback insider told me last fall: “The real issue is whether conservatives can govern.”

  • Christopher Rowland: A drawn-out, negative race could hurt GOP

    By Christopher Rowland, Boston Globe | Feb. 4 at 6:44 a.m.

    Mitt Romney presented a potent case in Florida Tuesday that he is the strongest Republican candidate to challenge President Obama by clobbering Newt Gingrich in a third swing state.

  • Davis Merritt: Komen decision creates worst of all worlds

    By Davis Merritt | Feb. 3 at 6:38 a.m.

    If the Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation believes it is not in its interest to work with organizations that have anything to do with abortions, it should simply so declare.

  • Rosa Brooks: Is America in decline?

    By Rosa Brooks, Los Angeles Times | Feb. 3 at 6:37 a.m.

    Is America in decline? Is our global influence waning?

  • Democrats allowed the GOP to reinvent itself

    By Kevin Horrigan, St. Louis Post-Dispatch | Feb. 1 at 5:41 p.m.

    It’s hard to read Thomas Frank’s new book, “Pity the Billionaire,” without being astonished at what utter nincompoops Democrats are.

  • Buffett rule fixes nonexistent problem

    By Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Bloomberg News | Feb. 1 at 5:53 p.m.

    Although Warren Buffett may be a stellar investor, his entry into the world of federal tax policy has brought forth nothing but bad ideas based on flawed information and misleading demagoguery. Let’s review the record.

  • Romney, Gingrich and lessons of 1948

    By Daniel Akst, Newsday | Jan. 31 at 7:15 p.m.

    The Republican presidential race proves that Karl Marx was right: When history repeats itself, it occurs first as tragedy and then as farce. Fortunately, both can be instructive.

  • Cutting defense could be an invitation to war

    By Cal Thomas, Tribune Media Services | Jan. 31 at 8:03 p.m.

    One of the memorable slogans from the Reagan administration was “peace through strength.” President Reagan believed a strong defense was a safeguard against enemy attacks and the best hope of victory should America go to war.

  • Carl Hiaasen: Democrats are loving Gingrich’s surge

    By Carl Hiaasen, Miami Herald | Jan. 30 at 4:38 p.m.

    If you’re a Democrat, here’s what you’re thinking about Florida’s Republican primary today:

  • New food-stamp policy levels the playing field

    By Wm. Jeff Kahrs | Jan. 30 at 7:06 p.m.

    A Wichita Eagle editorial about changes made by the Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services in the way it calculates food-stamp eligibility argued, in essence, that it is acceptable to deny American citizen children food stamps, based on their parents’ incomes, if their parents are American citizens, but that it is not acceptable to deny American citizen children food stamps, based on their parents’ incomes, if their parents are in the country illegally (“Fix food-stamp policy,” Jan. 26 Eagle Editorial). How is that “fair”?

  • The carnage keeps going on and on

    By Leonard Pitts, Miami Herald | Jan. 27 at 6:45 p.m.

    In a democracy, nothing is supposed to matter more than the will of the people.

  • Expand school choice

    By Lindsey M. Burke | Jan. 27 at 6:49 p.m.

    Twenty years ago, there weren’t many charter schools around. Today, however, they’re a common sight. Indeed, the 10 states that have failed to permit the operation of charters are the laggards of a growing school-choice movement.

  • Alumni agree: Emerson is not just any school

    By Sam Muyskens | Jan. 27 at 6:32 p.m.

    It has been difficult to listen to the distress and sense of betrayal expressed by parents during the well-attended and well-intended USD 259 school boundary listening sessions. I have been particularly impressed with the “keep our school open” passion and resolve demonstrated by parents and students of Emerson Open Magnet Elementary School.

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