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For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Oklahoma City Sun.com http://www.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/10/id/45d771c7290844e9/ en-us Fri, 04 Jul 2008 09:06:13 -0400 Fri, 04 Jul 2008 09:06:13 -0400 30 U.S. foreign policy on a march toward hell Michael Scheuer’s new work “Marching Toward Hell” is very clear with its overall purpose of exposing where American interests have gone wrong in their interactions with the various peoples, beliefs, and religions of the Middle East. http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/378245/cs/1/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:30:02 -0400 Oklahoma City Sun.com http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/378245/cs/1/ Abortion on demand will be our most shameful decision MPs are about to consider proposals which would permit abortion on demand up to 24 weeks of pregnancy. Here, Cardinal Keith O'Brien makes an impassioned plea against that move, warning Britain risks s... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15965318/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 06:52:47 -0400 The Scotsman http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15965318/ Still saying hooray for Holyrood! ble down Holyrood Road, self-conciously making a spectacle of themselves, is a real hoot.And those hats! You have to giggle. Last time I'd laughed so loud and long Ken Dodd was fracturing a Festival T... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15965320/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 06:52:35 -0400 The Scotsman http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15965320/ Zone idea for the Capital suburbs is just parking mad and park there. This is a problem of the council's making.This latest scheme, to install parking metered spaces in the residential Morningside area, is another in a long list of hare-brained ideas in ... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15965319/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 06:52:29 -0400 The Scotsman http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15965319/ Editorial views from across the state Go with the wind Some 360 feet above the grasslands and gently rolling hills of south central Washington and north central Oregon, pioneers in the emerging trade of wind technician — people suc... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15965061/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 06:25:39 -0400 The Seattle Times http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15965061/ Blacks are just as proud and patriotic as any other American WASHINGTON — Anyone who took U.S. history in high school ought to know that one of the five men killed in the Boston Massacre, the atrocity that helped ignite the American Revolution, was a runaw... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15961847/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:30:59 -0400 Deseret News http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15961847/ Applaud those who graduated Although it is troubling that the 2007 graduation rate for Hispanics was 72 percent in comparison to a 90 percent Caucasian graduation rate, let's not forget to celebrate the 72 percent who did gradua... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15961848/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:30:55 -0400 Deseret News http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15961848/ Build more solar plants As the article "BLM calls off moratorium on solar applications" (July 3) noted, there are only nine utility-scale solar plants throughout the United States. And although the state of Nevada is termed ... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15961849/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:30:52 -0400 Deseret News http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15961849/ An appeals court finds no reason to hold a detainee One of the perennial claims made by Americans who approve of the detention of terrorist suspects at Guantanamo Bay is that those people are just getting what they deserve, that the detainees should ge... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15961362/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:28:19 -0400 Post-Gazette http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15961362/ On the Fourth of July, let Americans can be dangerous. Sometimes, in the exercise of their rights and freedoms, they can get carried away and lose all perspective. In politics, for instance, the freedom to speak out does not c... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15961361/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:28:18 -0400 Post-Gazette http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15961361/ Give teenagers art lessons, not alcopops It's 2pm on a sunny weekday afternoon as I write this, and downstairs two 16-year-old girls are slouching on the sofa watching telly. I've suggested they go for a walk ("Mum! Puhleeze. We're not kids"... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15954644/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:01:17 -0400 The Guardian http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15954644/ This byelection could be the most important ever Every generation or so, the city of Glasgow seems fated to hold a parliamentary byelection that shapes the politics of the era. In the 1960s, Labour's loss of Glasgow Pollok marked the emergence from ... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15954643/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:01:19 -0400 The Guardian http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15954643/ Times working against U.S. I cannot believe you would have an article taken from The New York Times News Service. Do you just take anything to make up space? I was just floored when I read the headline "Al-Qaida thrives, grows ... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15955478/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:19:57 -0400 Deseret News http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15955478/ We are the alien nation After giving a lecture on conspiracy theories to a largely US audience, I was stopped in the corridor by an intense-looking member of the audience. He icily recited my reason for questioning the popul... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15954645/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:01:21 -0400 The Guardian http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15954645/ Obama is like a $1 bill I was thinking about Gen. Wesley Clark's comments about Sen. John McCain, and it made me think of comparing a $10 bill with a $1 bill. The $10 bill is wrinkled, tattered and torn, and the $1 bill is n... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15955479/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:19:56 -0400 Deseret News http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15955479/ A monument to hate in Chhatterhama Bright pink plastic flowers and lurid crepe-paper wreaths adorn Jammu and Kashmir’s first shrine to the Lashkar-e-Taiba. Last month, two Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists from Pakistan were shot dead i... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15956969/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:17:51 -0400 The Hindu http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15956969/ Telephone outage affects West Mifflin police Continuing problems with phone lines in the West Mifflin area because of recent rainy weather are affecting the borough's police department. Calls to 911 in West Mifflin are being routed to the Munha... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15954172/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:16:29 -0400 Post-Gazette http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15954172/ Climate change no laughing matter Siski Green | The Independent Ever since the 1750s, when the writer, satirist, statesman and inventor Benjamin Franklin put political cartooning on the map by publishing the first cartoon of the genre... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15957121/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:11:11 -0400 Arab News http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15957121/ Editorials, Opinion Piece Respond To Senate Republican Block Of PEPFAR Reauthorization Legislation editorial says. The editorial adds that by holding up the Senate vote, the "malcontent lawmakers have likely blown an opportunity" to pass the legislation before President Bush leaves for the Group of... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15953058/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:01:11 -0400 Medical News Today http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15953058/ Muslim-Jewish divide in US Salam Al-Marayati & Steven B. Jacobs | LA Times There&#39s a disturbing trend in this 2008 election. We are witnessing the manipulation and exploitation of Muslim-Jewish differences by political candi... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15957122/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:11:12 -0400 Arab News http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15957122/ Strong message to the intolerant The Supreme Court’s quashing of the summons issued by a Gujarat court to political scientist Ashis Nandy should send a strong message not just to harassers of free speech, including intolerant s... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15956967/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:17:53 -0400 The Hindu http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15956967/ Pondering The Word July 3, 2008 · Patriots may be a good name for a football team or a wiretapping law, but in politics it has become a word corrupted by misuse. An example is the controversy over Barack Obama su... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15956258/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:09:45 -0400 NPR http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15956258/ Save by closing on Sundays Here is another way to save energy. Think how much we could save if we closed all grocery stores, shopping malls, sporting-goods stores, restaurants, ski resorts, golf courses, boat docks, libraries, ... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15955480/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:19:54 -0400 Deseret News http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15955480/ Doing business with Russia 4 July 2008 Russia urgently needs to diversify by engaging more fully with the global economy, and that will not be possible as long as even its biggest investor is hamstrung by unenforceable contract... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15957123/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:11:16 -0400 Arab News http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15957123/ Lessons from North Korea for Middle East Aijaz Zaka Syed | Arab News Our world would be so dull without its delicious ironies and ever fascinating double standards. Who could have ever thought that having condemned North Korea as part of the... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15957124/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:11:17 -0400 Arab News http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15957124/ Mexican Cartels and the Fallout From Phoenix Late on the night of June 22, a residence in Phoenix was approached by a heavily armed tactical team preparing to serve a warrant. The members of the team were wearing the typical gear for members of ... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15952470/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:59:53 -0400 Officer http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15952470/ Let a church so fond of division test its worth in the marketplace of belief Those eager for small talk with Gordon Brown should try Scots Presbyterian schismatism, on which he is remarkably well informed. British rulers since the days of Trollope have found the politics of re... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15954646/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:01:23 -0400 The Guardian http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15954646/ How harmful is porn » Discuss Article Today's question: There have been many stories from former porn performers indicating the industry is rife with abuse, coercion and drug addiction. Doesn't the government have... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15955460/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:38:04 -0400 Los Angeles Times http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15955460/ Horrors of abuse that shame our t" towards the girls.Details of the case made harrowing reading. The sadist repeatedly exposed himself to the girls and made them perform sex acts. The sisters were also forced to dance naked for his ... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15954218/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:54:11 -0400 The Scotsman http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15954218/ Sorry seems to be hardest word – but Labour must learn to say it THE Scottish Labour Party has always been a strange beast – unfathomable to outsiders and observers – and often reduced to caricature or romanticism.The current predicament of the party after Wend... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15954217/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:54:10 -0400 The Scotsman http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15954217/ The future is black as coal comes in from the cold COAL is king again. Or is it? This week's announcement by ScottishPower that it has signed the "largest-ever coal supply contract" to buy Scottish-sourced coal supports the crown restoration thesis. http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15954216/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:54:07 -0400 The Scotsman http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15954216/ What Not To Eat How many of the world's murderers are meat-eaters and how many are veggies? French philosopher Rousseau believed that meat-eaters are generally more cruel and ferocious than other men. English b... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15951381/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:48:48 -0400 Times of India http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15951381/ The Great Illusion: Maya Yoga Vasishtha God has created the world in play, as it were. This is called Mahamaya, the Great Illusion. Therefore, one must take refuge in the Divine Mother, the Cosmic ... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15951384/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:48:46 -0400 Times of India http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15951384/ L.A. Times to cut 250 jobs, 150 in editorial LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Los Angeles Times will slash 250 jobs, including 150 in the newsroom, and trim its published pages by 15 percent in an effort to save money in the face of declining revenue... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15946978/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:42:44 -0400 Reuters http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15946978/ The fragile center of America In some ways, the U.S. Supreme Court term that just ended seems muddled: disturbing, highly conservative rulings on subjects like voting rights and gun control, along with important defenses of basic ... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15946086/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:14:57 -0400 International Herald Tribune http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15946086/ Low blow, so go Can Malaysia go nuclear? Nuclear power is no longer a bad word in light of the skyrocketing price of fuel and depleting world oil reserves. But the question is, should we and can we go nuclear? NURR... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15947054/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:55:21 -0400 New Straits Times http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15947054/ The moment of truth Forgive this brief intrusion into your busy days, but I thought it prudent to update you on our Doha Round negotiations in advance of your meeting later this month in Geneva. Each of you has informed... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15946084/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:14:52 -0400 International Herald Tribune http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15946084/ A gift from France On a recent visit to the Statue of Liberty, my first since the sixth grade, I was struck by how many French people were at the site. Why more French than others from abroad? The answer may lie in the... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15946083/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:14:51 -0400 International Herald Tribune http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15946083/ The return of the black helicopters What are the great conspiracy theories of our time? Sept. 11 spawned a host of paranoid illusions, numerous enough to fill up the next edition of the psychiatrists' diagnostic manual. I see that ... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15946082/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:14:48 -0400 International Herald Tribune http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15946082/ Foreign policy hypocrisy; Don Some members of the Bush administration are upset about the sham elections in Zimbabwe, and are calling for sanctions. But Saudi Arabia, for example, has never had national elections - sham or otherwi... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15946081/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:14:48 -0400 International Herald Tribune http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15946081/ Scotland must put more of its energy into renewables LAST week saw the launch of the UK Government's Renewable Energy Strategy – with the aim of 15 per cent of our electricity coming from renewables by 2020. In our first eight years in the Scottish Pa... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15943407/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:34:23 -0400 The Scotsman http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15943407/ Open and honest debate on ID is not on the cards nt was that the government had come to Edinburgh to provide a so-called "public consultation", when all it really wanted was a "private consultation" with its own selected and vetted guests. It was fo... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15943410/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:34:18 -0400 The Scotsman http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15943410/ Even better than the real thing Not quite I put them on eBay. They were my property, after all. And I could do anything I wanted with them. Right? Wrong. Well, at least in France. According to a French court judgement earlier this week, while... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15940824/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 05:56:21 -0400 The Scotsman http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15940824/ Wrong path for parks Californians love the state's parks. We visit by the tens of millions every year. We vote for bonds to expand and enhance them. Then we let them fall apart.Maintenance is always the overlooked stepchi... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15938648/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:50:35 -0400 Los Angeles Times http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15938648/ Stop requiring ethanol production You may be justifiably fuming about gasoline prices, but have you checked your grocery bills lately? Last week, corn briefly hit a record high -- and given its importance as a livestock feed, sweetene... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15938646/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:50:38 -0400 Los Angeles Times http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15938646/ No proxy war with Iran a dozen reasons why "If you want to whack them, we've got your back" is the wrong message for the U.S. to send Israel, publicly or privately. One is the increase in oil prices as a result of the war t... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15938647/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:50:37 -0400 Los Angeles Times http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15938647/ Orwell, Wall-E and me The two are about as different as, oh, George Orwell and Walt Disney. But between them, I was energized, terrified and inspired, and I came away thinking that we can still reach "the better angels of ... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15938645/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:50:29 -0400 Los Angeles Times http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15938645/ Tri-Citians Should Rally to Help Suffering Family It's hard to believe such a terrible tragedy could befall a family in the Tri-Cities. We're not that kind of place, are we? This is something you read about happening somewhere else -- not here. Yet t... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15937528/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:52:47 -0400 RedOrbit http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15937528/ The real gentrification story The Times’ recent article on gentrification in Echo Park, like all of its kind, missed one fundamental truth: Gentrification starts, historically and consistently, when the original property own... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15938643/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:50:26 -0400 Los Angeles Times http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15938643/ Stop advertising for illegal fireworks As fire departments throughout the state are preparing for a busy Independence Day celebration this week, I was extremely disappointed to find in the Sunday edition of the Deseret News an advertisemen... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15938667/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:36:00 -0400 Deseret News http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15938667/ Intellectuals subverting patriotism to promote internationalism, pacifism The Fourth of July is a patriotic holiday, but patriotism has long been viewed with suspicion or disdain by many of the intelligentsia. As far back as 1793, prominent British writer William Godwin cal... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15938666/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:36:00 -0400 Deseret News http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15938666/ Big Oil needs to drill more As many have suggested, energy policy in this country does need to change. I don't care to pay four dollars a gallon for gas either. But the stream of letters to this page suggesting that "we" need to... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15938665/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:35:59 -0400 Deseret News http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15938665/ Joseph Stalin, July 3 1941 Stalin must have felt betrayed after the Non-Aggression Pact between Germany and the USSR had been so perfidiously broken. The USSR had even been supplying Germany with resources to fuel her war machi... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15938075/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:15:07 -0400 The Scotsman http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15938075/ Office pool puts fun back in stock market worst June since the 1930s Great Depression . Most of us are at least a little depressed about the economy in general. Me, too. But this week I found a little fun in a new kind of office pool based n... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15935407/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:50:02 -0400 USA Today http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15935407/ McCain + Obama=a valid energy plan plan to require utilities to produce 25% of their electricity with solar, wind, biomass or other renewable energy sources by 2025. This is a smart approach that sets a necessary target but leaves it t... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15935408/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:50:03 -0400 USA Today http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15935408/ Man arrested in boy Pittsburgh police have arrested a man they say shot and killed a 15-year-old boy while he and his mother were at the drive-through at Kentucky Fried Chicken, 7210 Frankstown Ave., Homewood, in January... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15935433/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:48:15 -0400 Post-Gazette http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15935433/ Travelers deserve more privacy protection The extent of a Department of Homeland Security program that allows customs officials to search and seize portable electronic equipment needs to be clearly defined. A recent Senate hearing on federal ... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15935434/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:48:14 -0400 Post-Gazette http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15935434/ Pennsylvania has a big stake in its Erie coastline Pennsylvania senators have an opportunity right now to provide unprecedented protection for North America's Great Lakes. The five lakes are the largest surface freshwater system on Earth, containing ... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15935435/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:48:14 -0400 Post-Gazette http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15935435/ Good news in the works on overdraft charges USA TODAY's editorial on overdraft fees pits consumers and financial institutions against each other. While it makes for high drama to cast banks as the villains and consumers as their hapless victims... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15935410/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:49:59 -0400 USA Today http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15935410/ Citizens must protect democracy We should use the Fourth of July to renew our heritage and declare our independence from the greed, corruption and deceit of politicians and corporations. These groups have conspired to institute laws... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15935238/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:28:43 -0400 USA Today http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15935238/ Palestine - Palestinian Wins Crni PALESTINIAN WINS CRNI'S COURAGE IN EDITORIAL CARTOONING AWARD Bahaa Boukhari, a Palestinian cartoonist who has faced jail terms for his work, has won the 2008 Courage in Editorial Cartooning Award fro... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15931683/ Wed, 02 Jul 2008 22:10:41 -0400 IFEX http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15931683/ Beyond the matron state One might have thought that a self-proclaimed plan for the NHS's next 60 years would deal with one of the most iniquitous of its many problems. But when health secretary Alan Johnson introduced Lord D... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15932653/ Wed, 02 Jul 2008 22:33:23 -0400 The Guardian http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15932653/ New Zealand is in tune with the times - Britain New Zealand has long had a record of being ahead of the political game. It was the first country in the world to accept women's right to vote, in 1893. In the 1930s, it emerged as a pioneer of the mod... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15932655/ Wed, 02 Jul 2008 22:33:17 -0400 The Guardian http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15932655/ UK to ban Hezbollah military wing AFP LONDON: Britain yesterday moved to ban the entire military wing of Hezbollah, adding it to its blacklist of designated terrorist groups.Toughening its stance on the Lebanese political group, the H... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15934172/ Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:48:24 -0400 Arab News http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15934172/ Selling our soldiers short Today the government will officially announce the go-ahead to build the Queen Elizabeth and the Prince of Wales, two new aircraft carriers, the biggest and most expensive ships in the long history of ... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15932652/ Wed, 02 Jul 2008 22:33:26 -0400 The Guardian http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15932652/ Twelve killed in Kashmir gunbattle Mukhtar Ahmad | Arab News SRINAGAR: An army officer and 11 separatist guerrillas were killed in a fierce gunbattle in Indian Kashmir, an army spokesman said yesterday. It was the highest number of peo... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15934171/ Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:48:22 -0400 Arab News http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15934171/ Lessons for the godless The Gordon Brown era, as shortlived as it appears to be, has people suspecting that he'll trample on faith schools to woo old Labour. Cristina Odone has written a paper for the Centre for Policy Studi... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15932654/ Wed, 02 Jul 2008 22:33:19 -0400 The Guardian http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15932654/ Singh launches northeast charm offensive Nilofar Suhrawardy | Arab News NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh yesterday unveiled a road map for all-round development of the northeast region by 2020 that will spur investment, reduce povert... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15934177/ Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:48:21 -0400 Arab News http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15934177/ Crusading is not the answer, but nor is pulling up the drawbridge Next week, a bunch of political leaders will sit around a table at the G8 summit in Toyako, Japan, contemplating the state of the world. I hope to be sitting on a beach on the island of Ischia, ignori... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15932651/ Wed, 02 Jul 2008 22:33:28 -0400 The Guardian http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15932651/ Muslim rebels attack govt installations Al Jacinto | Arab News ZAMBOANGA CITY: Muslim rebels attacked military and government targets in North Cotabato province as sporadic fighting continue in the southern Philippines, officials said.Moro ... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15934170/ Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:48:20 -0400 Arab News http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15934170/ Letters to the Editor Technology's time trade-off In response to the June 17 article, "What, people managed before computers?": The article triggered the following thought. I completed my PhD in Britain in 1957, withou... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15933574/ Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:56:10 -0400 Christian Science Monitor http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15933574/ From triumph to torture MODERATING VOICE: The eldest of eight, Mohammed Omer has seen most of his siblings killed or wounded or maimed by Israeli soldiers. Still he is a moderating voice. (AN photo) http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15934169/ Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:48:17 -0400 Arab News http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15934169/ Iraq and foreign oil companies 3 July 2008 If Iraq hopes to increase oil production from the present high of 2.5 to 2.9 million barrels a day by next year, it will need some partnerships with foreign oil companies. Yet the Oil Mini... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15934176/ Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:48:16 -0400 Arab News http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15934176/ Consuming The 2008 Campaign July 3, 2008 · The marathon of civic marketing and obsessive-compulsive horse-race political news coverage (also known as the 2008 presidential campaign) that began in December 2006 is now in a... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15933658/ Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:47:04 -0400 NPR http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15933658/ Throwing stones from a glass house It is consistent with its long-held view that the opposition leader had been a victim of a conspiracy, which had led the US to lead the international chorus that questioned the manner of the previous ... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15931682/ Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:15:50 -0400 New Straits Times http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15931682/ Crunch time for Darling as credit runs out AMID the Commons bearpit at Prime Minister's Questions, Alistair Darling strikes a contrary figure. As Labour and Tory back-benchers roar insults at each other and Gordon Brown paws the dispatch box, ... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15929596/ Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:44:26 -0400 The Scotsman http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15929596/ More criminals in jail won This was some 20 years ago, when our jails were much less crowded than today and when hard drugs had not become endemic inside prison. At the time, Saughton still had slopping out and the physical con... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15929595/ Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:44:21 -0400 The Scotsman http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15929595/ Are we being fair to the Gurkhasover pensions THE government has tried to be as fair as possible in its treatment of armed forces' veterans, including former Gurkhas. The Gurkhas became a UK-based force on completion of the withdrawal from Hong K... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15929593/ Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:44:07 -0400 The Scotsman http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15929593/ Amanullah De Sondy, School of Divinity, University of Glasgow I have nothing against the SIF, but it is not representative of a "Muslim community". If the SNP is so determined to create an alternative to Westminster, it needs to learn from the UK government's mi... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15929592/ Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:44:05 -0400 The Scotsman http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15929592/ Grappling with rising prices of crude oil The Jeddah conference of oil producers and consumers, which concluded on June 22, brought into sharp focus the role of speculators behind the recent surge in oil prices. The conference exposed deep di... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15927858/ Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:25:28 -0400 The Hindu http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15927858/ Have we fallen out of love with eBay Nearly 13 years ago, 28-year-old software developer Pierre Omidyar had an idea for an online auction site. Under the title AuctionWeb, he offered a broken laser pointer for sale to the highest bidder.... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15927859/ Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:25:27 -0400 The Hindu http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15927859/ Why The Candidates Are Dusting Off Their Passports July 2, 2008 · Presidential hopefuls John McCain and Barack Obama are trading jabs on the economy, trade and patriotism. And both candidates are traveling overseas. The Political Junkie joins a... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15927310/ Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:19:00 -0400 NPR http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15927310/ Dominion Peoples gas sold to San Francisco firm Dominion Peoples, Pittsburgh's largest natural gas utility, is being sold in a $910 million deal that will take the company private. The company's corporate parent announced today that it is selling ... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15918340/ Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:43:20 -0400 Post-Gazette http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15918340/ DNA shows Altoona rape suspect didn ALTOONA, Pa. -- Altoona police say a paternity test proves a rape suspect did not father a child born to his alleged victim, a 12-year-old girl. Twenty-year-old Curtis Adrian Walk is still awaiting t... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15918338/ Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:43:18 -0400 Post-Gazette http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15918338/ Some facilities may close at Allegheny National Forest BRADFORD, Pa. -- Allegheny National Forest officials are considering fully or partially closing some recreational facilities in Pennsylvania's only national forest because of limited funding. Officia... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15918339/ Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:43:18 -0400 Post-Gazette http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15918339/ Releasing data on hospital errors data about some of the most serious hospital errors. These include the horror cases that make headlines, as when the wrong drug is administered or a surgical instrument is left in a patient's body. Of... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15915497/ Wed, 02 Jul 2008 06:51:51 -0400 Los Angeles Times http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15915497/ How to destroy a nation Zimbabwe has provided an unspeakably brutal example of how, absent the rule of law, leaders can do anything they wish to preserve power. Robert Mugabe, who has ruled the country since it became indepe... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15915513/ Wed, 02 Jul 2008 06:35:28 -0400 Deseret News http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15915513/ What Latinos want from their president » Discuss Article Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign has reignited an examination of race relations in America. It has led some to question how deep the divide is between black and white... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15915495/ Wed, 02 Jul 2008 06:51:46 -0400 Los Angeles Times http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15915495/ U.S. should aid Latin American self-reliance WASHINGTON — Barack Obama recently gave a major speech on Latin America in which he sought to contrast his ideas with President Bush's record in the region. Saying that Washington has "stuck to t... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15915514/ Wed, 02 Jul 2008 06:35:27 -0400 Deseret News http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15915514/ Get a grip on Dhaka While the CIA and the Pentagon search in vain for Osama bin Laden in the mountains of northwest Pakistan, an Al Qaeda affiliate has been quietly building up terrorist bases in the jungles of Banglades... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15915492/ Wed, 02 Jul 2008 06:51:43 -0400 Los Angeles Times http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15915492/ Story reflects true patriotism I carefully read the Deseret News report on the Freedom Festival's Patriotic Service for mention of what I thought was the most significant part of the program. It was missing. Michael Ballam's music ... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15915515/ Wed, 02 Jul 2008 06:35:25 -0400 Deseret News http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15915515/ Learning to do better ents and world-class education for our children.And the main aims of the new curriculum – to enable all children to become successful learners, confident individuals, responsible citizens and effect... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15914714/ Wed, 02 Jul 2008 06:12:26 -0400 The Scotsman http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15914714/ Race, rivalries and turf by Chief William J. Bratton, that race had nothing to do with the violence) cleverly injected numbers into the debate, stressing that a careful analysis of homicides in that agency did not support the... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15915493/ Wed, 02 Jul 2008 06:51:39 -0400 Los Angeles Times http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15915493/ Stop talking us down and start chatting us up We don't need these doom-mongers. What we need is a reality check. OK, so in the wake of the credit crunch, house prices have dropped back and banks are rather less keen to give us mortgages. At the s... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15914713/ Wed, 02 Jul 2008 06:12:23 -0400 The Scotsman http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15914713/ Great pianists of tomorrow On June 28, the finals were held for the world-renowned Gina Bachauer International Young Artists Piano Competition in Salt Lake City. The winner, Si Jing Ye, performed Tchaikovsky's Concerto No. 1 in... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15915516/ Wed, 02 Jul 2008 06:35:24 -0400 Deseret News http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15915516/ Right statue, but it ple, and where one of his old houses will soon be rededicated to him ... but I suppose that the citizens of the Canongate have been restive about Caltongate of late, so they must be put in their place... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15914709/ Wed, 02 Jul 2008 06:12:11 -0400 The Scotsman http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15914709/ Wesley Clark foolishly aims at McCain Retired Gen. Wesley Clark, the former NATO allied supreme commander, one-time Democratic presidential candidate and now Barack Obama supporter, may think he's helping the presumptive nominee with his ... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15909238/ Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:56:25 -0400 Post-Gazette http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15909238/ Where lawyers are the new heroes Tobias Berkman &Matthew Fay | Los Angeles Times The American public does not, for the most part, see its lawyers as heroes. Not so in Pakistan, a country where the basic institutions that create the r... http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15910837/ Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:51:59 -0400 Arab News http://story.oklahomacitysun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/15910837/