Provides the latest RSS feeds for US Editorials. For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Washington DC News.net http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/cat/09c0947bd4eaa867/ en-us Wed, 22 May 2013 17:25:00 -0400 Wed, 22 May 2013 17:25:00 -0400 30 The nation’s biggest banks are waging an outrageous fight against a bipartisan Senate bill seeking to protect taxpayers from bailing them out. Renewed interest in curtailing reckless financial practices was sparked by Attorney General Eric Holder’s admission earlier this year that he is afraid to prosecute the banks that brought about the worst downturn since the Great Depression. ... http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214696279/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Wed, 22 May 2013 15:26:46 -0400 http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214696279/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 I am glad the Utah Department of Transportation made a thorough decision and listened to the many people behind the huge public outcry supporting the Glover's Lane option over the Shepard Lane option for the West Davis Corridor. The current decision ensures that homes are saved from unnecessary destruction when an alternative through unpopulated areas is ... http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214696281/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Wed, 22 May 2013 15:15:57 -0400 http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214696281/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 For the college students who will be paying for a four-year bachelor’s degree long after graduation day, here’s some consolation: At least it didn’t take you six or eight years. College is expensive, yet unpredictably so. Some students pay little for degrees from elite private institutions, after tuition discounts and financial aid. Many of their peers, however, will pay far ... http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214694596/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Wed, 22 May 2013 14:13:19 -0400 http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214694596/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Intellectual property theft is a growing problem that the government needs to crack down on for the good of American companies, says Huntsman and ... http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214694598/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Wed, 22 May 2013 14:03:24 -0400 http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214694598/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 The continuing examples of the Obama administration’s targeting of journalists is advancing a new front in the war on journalism, according to Jonathan S. Tobin ... http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214694597/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Wed, 22 May 2013 14:03:24 -0400 http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214694597/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 returning via Netflix? Just another old-media brand reviving itself on new media. The TV show, which originally ran on Fox from 2003 to 2006 and unveils new episodes on Netflix next weekend, finds itself in splendid company. Radiohead, Louis ... http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214691398/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Wed, 22 May 2013 11:43:50 -0400 http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214691398/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Must religion be embodied in a god or gods, such as Ceres, the Roman goddess of agriculture? We all know how the battle lines shake out: evangelical vs. scientist, believer vs. atheist. The culture war defined as science vs. religion is so overheated that it seems to be more of a caricature than a coherent, useful discussion. Unless, that is, someone is trying to stretch beyond the ... http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214691399/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Wed, 22 May 2013 11:43:49 -0400 http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214691399/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 In the war of businessmen against the people, the businessmen seem to have won the battle for collecting sales tax on products purchased from out-of-state ... http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214691400/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Wed, 22 May 2013 11:37:10 -0400 http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214691400/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Lisa Hamm, sister of slain Monroe Corrections Officer Jayme Biendl, reacts after a Snohomish County jury recommended the death penalty for Biendl’s killer, Byron Scherf. At left is Biendl’s father, James Hamm. Lisa’s husband, Paul Crosby, is at right, and Biendl’s brother James. (Ken Lambert / The Seattle Times) The person who killed the guard at the Washington State ... http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214691401/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Wed, 22 May 2013 11:31:18 -0400 http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214691401/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Director Steven Soderbergh had been looking for a way to frame a film about the extravagant entertainer Liberace for years when a friend recommended the ... http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214689813/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Wed, 22 May 2013 10:30:55 -0400 http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214689813/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 As a senior, I am due to finish my high-school career in a number of weeks. After 12 years of schooling, I am on to a university. I was blessed with great teachers every year, but there is something I wish to address. There have been such significant budget cuts recently, and while the whole state is feeling the stress of the country's deficit, I am curious as to why it is the education ... http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214689815/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Wed, 22 May 2013 10:18:18 -0400 http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214689815/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 new Brookings Institute study that concludes a lack of affordable housing has led low-income households to move outside Seattle city limits. In particular, the last line in the article caught my attention: "We should create and re-create economic opportunities for people in South King County, but we should also be working to give them access to homes and jobs in higher-opportunity parts of ... http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214689814/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Wed, 22 May 2013 10:18:18 -0400 http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214689814/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 The scandals seem to be getting closer to the White House. Who knew about the IRS scandal? The comics have a few thoughts about that. Vote for your favorite punchline at ... http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214689816/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Wed, 22 May 2013 10:17:50 -0400 http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214689816/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 What’s the difference between keeping President Obama "updated throughout the night" on a deadly terrorist attack in Benghazi and keeping him "updated throughout the night" on a deadly tornado in Oklahoma?The president could have actually done something about Benghazi.Have you been watching the president the past 36 hours or so? Lots of photos of him calling officials in ... http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214686887/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Wed, 22 May 2013 07:35:34 -0400 http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214686887/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 An air tanker drops slurry on the Waldo Canyon fire near Colorado Springs in June 2012. (RJ Sangosti, Denver Post file) With ample spring snowfall and recent rains, it's easy to forget about wildfire season. But soon enough the days will heat up, fuel sources will dry out and Colorado - and other Western states - will once again be faced with serious wildfire threats. To that end, it's ... http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214682791/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Wed, 22 May 2013 03:06:43 -0400 http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214682791/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Lily Raymond, 17, rushes to embrace her brother Ethan Raymond, 11, as a teacher escorts him away from Briarwood Elementary school after a tornado destroyed the school in south Oklahoma City on Monday. (Paul Hellstern, The Oklahoman) ( | ) As we grieve for those who lost so much in the monster tornado that struck Oklahoma on Monday, we also find ourselves buoyed by emerging stories of heroism. We ... http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214682792/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Wed, 22 May 2013 03:06:42 -0400 http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214682792/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Folks, deep breath time. This is not the end of the Obama presidency. It's a bad stretch with an unfortunate confluence of unfortunate events. None of which will make the first paragraph -- not even the first page -- of the account of the Obama administration in the history books.Let's tick through the trifecta of scandals and what they tell us -- about the foibles of this ... http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214681820/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Wed, 22 May 2013 02:20:24 -0400 http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214681820/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 The illegal abortion trial of Dr. Kermit Gosnell horrified the nation. Gosnell was found guilty of delivering late-term live babies in abortion attempts and then killing them by snipping their spines. A co-worker said that, after aborting a 30 week fetus, Gosnell joked that the child was so big it could "walk to the ... http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214681821/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Wed, 22 May 2013 02:18:02 -0400 http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214681821/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 In the war of businessmen against the people, the businessmen seem to have won the battle for collecting sales tax on products purchased from out-of-state sellers. A federal law sponsored by state business interests will require the appropriate state sales tax to be collected on Internet purchases. The state governments see this as a windfall because the voluntary sales tax doesn't seem to ... http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214681822/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Wed, 22 May 2013 02:18:01 -0400 http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214681822/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Dan Liljenquist's gleeful recounting of adversity in the Obama presidency is unfortunate ("Chaffetz's search for truth in Benghazi paid off," May 16). Extremism on the left and on the right is much the same. Salient in both are fear and hate of an "other" and detachment of reality. Where extremism errs is in its rigid dichotomy of paired opposites, like friend and ... http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214681823/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Wed, 22 May 2013 02:18:00 -0400 http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214681823/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Everyone expects the government to step in and help the victims of this most recent tornado as it has in the other recent natural disasters. I applaud the quick response of our government — the purpose of government is to protect its citizens. But according to the ranting and raving of a few, that does not include protecting them when illness occurs. Please explain to me the difference ... http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214681824/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Wed, 22 May 2013 02:17:59 -0400 http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214681824/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 India and China together account for about 38 percent of the world's 7-billion-plus population. Because these Asian giants share a border, the whole planet holds its breath if they are at each other's throats, as they were again earlier this ... http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214681825/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Wed, 22 May 2013 02:17:58 -0400 http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214681825/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 For a century, the Boy Scouts of America has provided the young men of Utah an unparalleled program of character development through outdoor adventure, leadership training and service. The state's communities have benefited enormously — not just from the untold hours of service — but from the values of the Scout Oath and Law that have been instilled into the hearts of so many. ... http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214681826/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Wed, 22 May 2013 02:17:57 -0400 http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214681826/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 It is time for Michiganians to have a real conversation about both value and values. Do we want to protect corrections officers or produce fatter CEO paychecks? Are we trying to give our kids the cheapest possible education or the best? Do our veterans and the health care workers who care for them deserve more than empty promises? Sometimes you get what you pay for. Unfortunately, it looks like ... http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214680822/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Wed, 22 May 2013 01:09:43 -0400 http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214680822/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Brittany Loring is certainly one tough Bostonian, after dealing with a skull fracture and two leg wounds ("Marathon bombing victim looks forward to MBA," May 20). She’s a major success already, as she gets her business degree and finishes recovering from her injuries. And now she has her whole life ahead of her. I am just so sorry that she and others had to go through such pain.- ... http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214680824/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Wed, 22 May 2013 00:50:08 -0400 http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214680824/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Although there’s still a great deal to be learned about the scandals and controversies swirling around the White House like so many ominous dorsal fins in the surf, the nature of President Obama’s bind is becoming clear. The best defenses of his administration require undermining the rationale for his presidency."We’re portrayed by Republicans as either being liars or ... http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214680823/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Wed, 22 May 2013 00:50:07 -0400 http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214680823/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 David Beckham spent six years in the U.S. with the LA Galaxy before returning to Europe earlier this year. The most unforgiving criticism in sport is directed at any athlete who fans believe is celebrated too excessively above his true talent level -- especially those stars who are gloried because they're such pretty people. To wit: As David Beckham retires, so much attention is ... http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214679806/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Wed, 22 May 2013 00:07:05 -0400 http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214679806/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Two seemingly unrelated stories in the news - marriage equality and Angelina Jolie’s preventive mastectomies - have a connection for some Minnesotans. Many members of state’s adoption community have sought for decades to regain the right of adult adoptees to have access to their original birth certificates. Our attempts to restore this right, which was taken away in the 1940s under ... http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214678756/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 21 May 2013 23:00:46 -0400 http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214678756/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Last week, I decided I wanted a Reuben sandwich, and I was missing sauerkraut. For my Reubens, not just any sauerkraut will do. So I got in my car, strapped myself in, drove to the co-op that carries it and paid an ungodly amount for The Best Sauerkraut In The World. I got home, laid out my ingredients, and started drooling at the prospect of my delicious, most-craved Reuben. And then I ... http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214678757/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 21 May 2013 23:00:45 -0400 http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214678757/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Mark Dayton and DFL leaders are wasting little time to extol their "accomplishments" of this year’s legislative session. We, not surprisingly, have a different take and a lot of questions. Why did legislators raise permanent taxes by more than $2 billion to resolve a $627 million short-term deficit? They could have adopted a balanced approach by going through the budget line by ... http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214677780/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 21 May 2013 21:50:25 -0400 http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214677780/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Monday's tornado wasn't even the strongest to hit this same suburban community. The pictures make you wonder how anyone lived through the monster tornado that devastated an Oklahoma City suburb on Monday. Neighborhoods scraped to the foundations. ... http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214677782/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 21 May 2013 21:34:26 -0400 http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214677782/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 "Every Okie accepts that atmospheric instability is a part of our legacy." The Oklahoman,Oklahoma City, editorial: "Now come the sad stories, the heartrending deaths of young and old, the miracles and the survivals, as the black funnel wraps itself in grief. Now come the recovery, the selfless deeds, the sacrificial giving and the comforting words. This is a time when patience is ... http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214677781/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 21 May 2013 21:34:26 -0400 http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214677781/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Minneapolis police chief, she told the Star Tribune Editorial Board that her priorities for the department included transparency. In fact, the motto "Commitment, Integrity, Transparency" appears on most correspondence from her office. Earlier this month, she faced one of her first big tests in community relations. Two Minneapolis police officers were shot and two young men died ... http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214676707/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 21 May 2013 20:41:20 -0400 http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214676707/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 SNOHOMISH County Executive Aaron Reardon’s voluntary departure from his elected post should be acknowledged by more than a startling paragraph in a routine speech. Two months ago in a State of the County address, Reardon announced he would step down May 31. That was pretty much it. He owes county residents a more formal, and pragmatic departure. Reardon should not compound a string of ... http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214676708/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 21 May 2013 20:25:47 -0400 http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214676708/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 A few weeks ago I received this email from a frustrated teacher: "I retired several years ago from teaching high school. I still sub. On Monday I was supposed to supervise peer editing of a research paper on the Industrial Revolution. The students had two weeks to write. I had five classes and about half the students did not have their papers. ‘I don’t like to write’ or ... http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214676709/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 21 May 2013 20:25:46 -0400 http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214676709/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 THE U.S. government has expressed interest in possibly instituting a new border-crossing fee at land borders. At this stage, the proposal is just a request by President Obama’s administration to study the effect of collecting a crossing fee for pedestrians and passenger vehicles along the Canadian and Mexican land borders. A fee would help recover the costs of upgrades on the northern and ... http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214676710/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 21 May 2013 20:25:45 -0400 http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214676710/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Hospital charges vary widely from one part of the country to another. The Affordable Care Act requires hospitals to tell patients how much a procedure will ... http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214676714/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 21 May 2013 20:25:23 -0400 http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214676714/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 But blocking tactics aren't the same thing as providing proof of supposed administration abuses. Never lacking chutzpah, Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., the Chief Obstructionist of the Party of No, turned up on Meet the Press Sunday to denounce the Obama administration for creating ... http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214676712/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 21 May 2013 20:25:23 -0400 http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214676712/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 On Monday, the Supreme Court announced it would take up a case about whether prayer should be allowed at government meetings. We asked our readers how they would rule. Comments are from Twitter and Facebook:Should prayer be allowed at government meetings? Absolutely! Politicians need all the help they can get. -- @VILLARREAL_14Pray at home or church. Not everyone is a Bible-thumping Christian. We ... http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214676711/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 21 May 2013 20:25:23 -0400 http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214676711/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 James Oliver, left, hugs his brother and fellow Eagle Scout, Will Oliver, who is gay. In February, Will and other supporters carried boxes filled with a petition to end the ban on gay Scouts and leaders to the Boy Scouts of America headquarters in ... http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214676713/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 21 May 2013 20:25:23 -0400 http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214676713/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 It's clear by this point that the Internal Revenue Service should not be in the business of figuring out what constitutes political activity and just how much of it is engaged in by any particular group claiming tax-exempt status. The easy solution to the scandal embroiling Washington is to revoke the 1959 IRS regulation that says social-welfare groups can engage in political activity, so ... http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214676715/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 21 May 2013 20:12:52 -0400 http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214676715/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Seven in 10 Latino high school graduates entered college last year, the first time the rate has ever been higher than that of whites and African-Americans. That, in its way, is the good news. It's not a matter of pitting one American ethnic group against the others; it's more that such success among a group that is made up primarily of immigrants, so that most of these new college ... http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214676716/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 21 May 2013 20:12:51 -0400 http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214676716/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Is climate change to blame? No one knows, but the numbers of events are increasing. During the live coverage of the horrific events in Moore, Okla., on Monday night, meteorologist Mike Morgan on Oklahoma City TV station, KFOR, declared that this ... http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214675521/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 21 May 2013 19:17:25 -0400 http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214675521/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Immigration advocates gather outside the Senate Judiciary Committee in the Senate Hart Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, April 22, 2013, as they wait to attend the committee's hearing on comprehensive immigration reform ... http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214671273/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 21 May 2013 16:58:36 -0400 http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214671273/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 CNN that the much beloved telescope, which ';has found more than 2,700 possible planets orbiting stars other than our Sun, of which more than 100 have been confirmed,'; may be nearing the end of its life now that ';the second of four of the Kepler spacecraft's reaction wheels, which aim the vessel's instruments, appears to have failed. It remains to be seen whether full ... http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214669525/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 21 May 2013 15:46:45 -0400 http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214669525/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Sacramento, Calif., Mayor Kevin Johnson, at front center, a former NBA basketball player, walks out during a break from an NBA Board of Governors meeting in Dallas on Wednesday. The board voted 22-8 against a proposed relocation of the Sacramento Kings to Seattle. (Tony Gutierrez / The Associated Press) "This is going to be short for me. I have a game to in Oklahoma City," David Stern ... http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214669526/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 21 May 2013 15:40:44 -0400 http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214669526/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 If in any of these situations even one person of influence had adhered to the basic tenets of liberalism, all of these scandals could have been ... http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214669527/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 21 May 2013 15:40:30 -0400 http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214669527/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Cure is to reduce the size, cost and intrusiveness of the federal government. Our Founding Fathers were fearful of a powerful federal government because it was a threat to liberty. The recent Internal Revenue Service scandal is the foreseeable and inevitable consequence of a too powerful federal government, and the validation of the mission of the Tea Party movement that stands firmly for a ... http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214669528/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 21 May 2013 15:40:29 -0400 http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214669528/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Hear what advice some late-night comedians offered to the Class of 2013 (and commencement speech complaints). After that, vote for your favorite joke at ... http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214669529/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 21 May 2013 15:40:26 -0400 http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214669529/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Baltimore County 's are the second-oldest. The problems posed by the aging facilities in the two jurisdictions are different - the city has an overabundance of underused buildings, while the county has for years been dealing with overcrowding in one region or another - but the first step toward a solution, county schools officials hope, may be the same: developing a comprehensive ... http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214669530/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 21 May 2013 15:23:58 -0400 http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214669530/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Republican politicians and activists can barely contain their glee at the simultaneous eruption of three major controversies about the Obama administration. Conservatives are at a low boil over the administration’s dissembling about its actions after the attacks on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya. The public is concerned about the targeting of conservative groups by the ... http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214667922/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 21 May 2013 14:44:16 -0400 http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214667922/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 "They own the place," GOP state Rep. Pat Garofalo sarcastically said of labor unions Monday, as pro-union forces loudly celebrated the House's 68-66 vote to authorize state-paid child care providers and personal care attendants to organize a union. The contentious unionization issue was indeed a big-deal, long-sought victory for the state's union movement. It's seen as a ... http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214667921/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 21 May 2013 14:44:16 -0400 http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214667921/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 expulsion as a spy of a U.S. Embassy employee in Moscow last week. The Russian Federal Security Service, known as the FSB, said that Ryan C. Fogle was caught red-handed trying to recruit one of its officers, carrying cash, a letter, a compass, a map, sunglasses and two wigs. We don’t know what Fogle was doing, but the story sounds fishy. Back in the 1970s, perhaps, a CIA case officer would ... http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214665496/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 21 May 2013 13:26:22 -0400 http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214665496/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 That pattern was in my head as I watched ';We Steal Secrets,'; the WikiLeaks documentary at the Seattle International Film Festival. Army Pfc. Bradley Manning is the admitted source of the biggest leak of official secrets in history, and pleaded guilty to 10 of the 22 charges against him. He faces 20 years in prison. He knew what he was doing, but like most whistle-blowers, believed the ... http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214665498/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 21 May 2013 13:07:47 -0400 http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214665498/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 The IRS scandal has caused consternation on Capitol Hill. U.S. Senate Minority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell, center, talks about the issue Thursday as Rep. Michele Bachmann, left, Sen. Rand Paul, right, and others look on. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus has scheduled a hearing for next week. (Alex Wong / Getty Images) The article about the part of the tax code allowing tax-exempt ... http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214665497/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 21 May 2013 13:07:46 -0400 http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214665497/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 In fact, God intervenes and comforts us in our darkest times. God is all good. God is all-powerful. Evil and tragedy happen. Pick two, as the saying goes, but all three of those postulations can't possibly be true.As seems to happen all too often in a troubled world, religious people are left to struggle with these riddles of life and belief following the tornado that devastated Moore, ... http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214665500/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 21 May 2013 13:07:24 -0400 http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214665500/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 The significance of thousands of students receiving their diplomas cannot be overstated. Yet the fact remains that many more students in this country need that same ... http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214665499/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 21 May 2013 13:07:24 -0400 http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214665499/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 No trumpets blared or crowds cheered Monday night as the 2013 Legislature’s regular session drew to a close. Weary legislators are expected to troop home today to confront mixed responses to the year’s labors. We share that ambivalence, and concede that it may spring from expectations that were too high. This year’s return to all-DFL control at the Capitol after 22 years of ... http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214663704/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 21 May 2013 12:14:14 -0400 http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214663704/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Recently, opponents of deportations held a rally to commemorate the five-year anniversary of what they call an unjust immigration sweep of 389 people in a kosher meat-packing plant in Postville, Iowa. Last July, three people breached security and entered a nuclear facility in Oak Ridge, Tenn., housing highly enriched uranium, where they spilled blood at the site before being arrested. Last ... http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214663703/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 21 May 2013 12:14:13 -0400 http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214663703/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Abrams' hyperactive movie talked fast and walked fast -- when it wasn't at a dead run. Indeed, in its breakneck pace and its camera-flare and whip-pan-loving ... http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214663705/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 21 May 2013 12:10:06 -0400 http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214663705/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Beth Lapides (with music director-producer Mitch Kaplan) is the founder and ringmaster at UnCabaret, a Los Angeles comedy institution that's marking its 25th anniversary this ... http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214663706/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 21 May 2013 12:10:05 -0400 http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214663706/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 panel of experts convened by the Institute of Medicine says limiting salt below a certain amount may not really do us any good. Around here, we take this to mean: Eat as much salt as you can or you'll die. So, we've created The Saltwich, made with the saltiest foods we could find. Salami, bacon, pickles and salt-and-vinegar potato chips, on salty pretzel bread. Salt to ... http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214663707/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 21 May 2013 12:10:05 -0400 http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214663707/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 keep doing that. Metronomes not in sync with the table have their motions dampened, then countered, until they do it "the table's way." Eventually all the metronomes come into alignment. That's what you saw in our small, chamber music version. Now we're going symphonic. This time, we'll have a much bigger table with 32 brightly colored metronomes -- a Mormon ... http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214663709/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 21 May 2013 12:10:05 -0400 http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214663709/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Comedian, writer, director, producer and actor Mel Brooks is one of only 11 people to have won Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony awards. Others in the elite EGOT club include Mike Nichols and Whoopi ... http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214663708/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 21 May 2013 12:10:04 -0400 http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214663708/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 story Sunday in The New York Times by three reporters describes the implosion that occurred when the Cincinnati IRS office was flooded with 60,000 paper applications seeking to qualify for a niche category of political activity and tax avoidance. The goal was 501(c)4 status that does not require registering as a political action committee or disclosing donors. All of the anger and frustration ... http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214663710/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 21 May 2013 10:58:37 -0400 http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214663710/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Froma Harrop not only gets her facts wrong on consumer-driven health care; she also does not understand the limitations of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), or Obamacare ... http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214663711/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 21 May 2013 10:58:37 -0400 http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214663711/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 The real scandal of Benghazi ," Opinion, May 18]. She claims that Republican Rep. Darrel Issa's tenacity in pursuing and uncovering Benghazi facts is " … dishonoring the memory of Ambassodor Chris Stevens and three other Americans by making a political circus out of their deaths." Never is there even a mention of the Obama administration throwing Susan Rice under the ... http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214662212/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 21 May 2013 09:43:13 -0400 http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214662212/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tim Eyman in Olympia, February 2013Jon Lok / The Seattle Times The state's master of tax limitation by ballot measure is no lefty, and voters of a progressive stripe typically scorn anything with his name on it. But Tim Eyman of Mukilteo says he’s for the people’s right to vote on ballot measures whether right or left. That is an issue in Spokane, where the progressive ... http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214662214/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 21 May 2013 09:43:13 -0400 http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214662214/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 The Bellevue City Council is responsible for the land use and zoning rules spurringthe city’s massivegrowth. Seattle Times business reporter Amy Martinez reports ... http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214662213/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 21 May 2013 09:43:13 -0400 http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214662213/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 However, in order to gather evidence against Kim, FBI Agent Reginald Reyes filed an affidavit in federal court indicating there was evidence that Rosen (who was not mentioned by name in the affidavit) had broken the law "at the very least, either as an aider, abettor and/or co-conspirator." Nearly four years later, Rosen has not been charged with a crime, but indicating there was a ... http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214662215/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 21 May 2013 09:28:11 -0400 http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214662215/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 In the 21st century, we have U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s "Bank on Students Loan Fairness Act," which would set the interest rate on student loans at the rate at which banks borrow from the Federal Reserve. The justification - if you can call it that - is that if the Federal Reserve lends money to banks at less than 1 percent, the federal government shouldn’t charge students ... http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214662216/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 21 May 2013 09:28:10 -0400 http://www.washingtondcnews.net/index.php/sid/214662216/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867