Daily News Digest: Op/Ed

Yahoo! Alerts Yahoo! News - My Alerts - Edit Alert Tuesday, November 08, 2005 09:00 PM PST Today's Op/Ed: Under fire, a giant employer offers a useful health plan Tea ceremonies and religious freedom Rep. John Conyers: Mr. Chalabi Comes to Washington DEMS' FUTURE HOPE WEINER ALREADY TROLLS FOR '09 VOTES Should Bush Fire Rove? Ethically Challenged AP Editorial Roundup STREET WARS CAN BE LINKED TO FRANCE'S RELIGIOUS OPPRESSION DIRTY OLD MEN PRESIDENTIAL DILEMMAS ALITO NOMINATED; DEMOCRATS HIDE FROM BASE HOW AND WHY SAMUEL ALITO HAPPENED DARK CURTAIN OF RACISM SOMETIMES OPENS TO THE LIGHT MAYBE A GOOD FIGHT IS JUST WHAT AMERICA NEEDS BEATING DEMOCRACY'S HEAD AGAINST A SOLID LATIN AMERICAN WALL DESCRIBING ALITO AS 'DANGEROUSLY RADICAL' IS CLEARLY WRONG BIG EASY MONEY BIGGER THAN WATERGATE IT CAN'T BE SAID IN SIMPLE WORDS FRENCH TOAST? Under fire, a giant employer offers a useful health plan Mon, 07 Nov 2005 07:10 am PST USATODAY.com - As it grew into the nation's largest retailer and employer, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. largely ignored critics who charge that the company is stingy with wages and benefits, drives small retailers out of business and uses hardball tactics with employees, union organizers and suppliers. Full Story Top Tea ceremonies and religious freedom Tue, 08 Nov 2005 12:00 am PST The Christian Science Monitor - A case involving a religious tea ceremony argued before the Supreme Court last week has more to it than meets the eye. By deciding whether the government can prevent US members of a Brazilian sect from using hallucinogenic tea in its rituals, the court will make a powerful statement about how seriously the United States regards religious freedom in the 21st century. Full Story Top Rep. John Conyers: Mr. Chalabi Comes to Washington Tue, 08 Nov 2005 12:12 pm PST HuffingtonPost.com - This week, infamous intelligence fabricator Ahmed Chalabi, will be visiting Washington. I have heard rumors that he will be staying in a luxurious bloc of eight suites at the Ritz Carlton hotel and that he has meetings arranged with high ranking Administration officials, including Secretary of State Rice. Full Story Top DEMS' FUTURE HOPE WEINER ALREADY TROLLS FOR '09 VOTES Tue, 08 Nov 2005 03:00 am PST New York Post - THE spirit of the Democratic Party's future hit the pavement in Manhattan yesterday to look for votes in the mayoral campaign. Full Story Top Should Bush Fire Rove? Tue, 08 Nov 2005 08:12 am PST The Weekly Standard - LAST FRIDAY, a memo to White House staffers was issued (and released to reporters): Full Story Top Ethically Challenged Tue, 08 Nov 2005 01:23 pm PST The Nation - The Nation -- Five years into an Administration of sniggering mendacity, George Bush apparently feels his staff needs a mandatory refresher course on ethics--a response with the too-little too-late feel of FEMA's to Hurricane Katrina. Harriet Miers's office will conduct the seminars. Out of a bipartisan concern that the White House's counsel will have a strong grasp of the subject, I offer these Cliff Notes on the history of moral theory. Full Story Top AP Editorial Roundup Wed, 02 Nov 2005 10:17 am PST AP - Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in the United States and abroad: Full Story Top STREET WARS CAN BE LINKED TO FRANCE'S RELIGIOUS OPPRESSION Tue, 08 Nov 2005 05:11 pm PST Maggie Gallagher - In this unexpected French war in the streets, press reports offer a strange new kind of body count: "Nationwide, vandals burned 1,173 cars, compared to 1,408 vehicles Sunday-Monday, police said. A total of 330 people were arrested, down from 395 the night before," according to the Associated Press. Full Story Top DIRTY OLD MEN Tue, 08 Nov 2005 05:11 pm PST Ted Rall - The Cynical Politics of Megan's Law Full Story Top PRESIDENTIAL DILEMMAS Tue, 08 Nov 2005 05:11 pm PST William F. Buckley - The political dialogue is hardening ever so fast, and crystallizations, even if premature, are worth attempting. Full Story Top ALITO NOMINATED; DEMOCRATS HIDE FROM BASE Mon, 07 Nov 2005 02:43 pm PST Ann Coulter - What a difference a week makes! Last week, liberals were expecting big things. They were counting on special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald and the White House to do their work for them. Full Story Top HOW AND WHY SAMUEL ALITO HAPPENED Mon, 07 Nov 2005 02:46 pm PST Richard Reeves - HOBOKEN, N.J. -- Among the many problems Democrats in the U.S. Senate have in talking tough about blocking the Supreme Court nomination of Jersey guy Sam Alito are these: Full Story Top DARK CURTAIN OF RACISM SOMETIMES OPENS TO THE LIGHT Mon, 07 Nov 2005 02:43 pm PST Cynthia Tucker - When Condoleezza Rice took the field on Oct. 22 at Bryant-Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa, the crowd greeted her as if she were the school's most recent Heisman Trophy winner -- conquering hero and pride of Alabama. She was not the first black person to step onto the University of Alabama's football field to so enthusiastic a greeting, but she is the first who has never worn a helmet and shoulder pads. Full Story Top MAYBE A GOOD FIGHT IS JUST WHAT AMERICA NEEDS Mon, 07 Nov 2005 02:45 pm PST David Shribman - The Wall Street Journal's lead headline Tuesday morning said that the president's selection of Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. for the Supreme Court "Sets Stage for Ideological Battle." That very same day, The Washington Post, which looks at life from an entirely different angle, offered a lead headline of its own, saying that the choice of the New Jersey jurist "Sets Stage for Ideological Battle." Full Story Top BEATING DEMOCRACY'S HEAD AGAINST A SOLID LATIN AMERICAN WALL Tue, 08 Nov 2005 05:11 pm PST Georgia Anne Geyer - WASHINGTON -- Now that President Bush is home from Latin America, let's review his visits to Argentina, Brazil and Panama. We might just discover some surprises. Full Story Top DESCRIBING ALITO AS 'DANGEROUSLY RADICAL' IS CLEARLY WRONG Mon, 07 Nov 2005 02:46 pm PST John Leo - The feminist left is outraged that Judge Samuel Alito voted in 1991 to uphold a Pennsylvania law that would have required married women to notify their husbands of a decision to abort. Alito stands accused of patriarchal overreach and making it possible for outraged and abusive husbands to attack their wives. Full Story Top BIG EASY MONEY Sun, 06 Nov 2005 05:33 pm PST Randy Cohen - I am a hurricane evacuee from New Orleans. My employer decided to continue to pay employees at least through the end of the year or until our place of employment reopens, which will not be soon. I have decided that I am not returning -- to the city or to my job, but I do need some income while I resettle and look for work. Is it ethical to take the salary? -- R.W., Arkansas Full Story Top BIGGER THAN WATERGATE Tue, 01 Nov 2005 05:11 pm PST Ted Rall - Bush-Cheney Traitors Deserve Prison, Impeachment Full Story Top IT CAN'T BE SAID IN SIMPLE WORDS Mon, 07 Nov 2005 02:48 pm PST William F. Buckley - The charge that the Bush administration is something of a closed society keeps coming up, for instance in the matter of Vice President Cheney and Lewis Libby. Full Story Top FRENCH TOAST? Tue, 08 Nov 2005 03:00 am PST New York Post - French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin yesterday called up police reservists and promised state-of-emergency curfews, to no immediate avail: A 12th straight night of violence began at dusk, having spread from the Paris suburbs to every major city, and 300 smaller towns, in France — and even beyond its borders: Full Story Top You received this email because you subscribed to Yahoo! Alerts. Use this link to unsubscribe from this alert. 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