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Islamophobia is Un-American
Earlier this year, hundreds of people turned out in Yorba Linda, California to protest the appearance of two highly controversial Muslim speakers at a dinner held to benefit local charitable projects. The scene outside the social hall quickly turned ugly, even frightening.
NPR’s Stupid Situation
National Public Radio is having a tough time. It’s being beaten up and knocked down, and its good name is getting dragged through the mud.
Mickey Mouse Wage Hike
Good news, people: America’s wages are up–the average worker is making more today than a year ago! How much more, you ask? Get ready to be excited: 58 cents a week.
Torturers? Who, Us?
There are today a number of honorable Western governments seeking to punish the perpetrators of torture. Unfortunately, the Obama administration isn’t among them. This failure of will is doubly lamentable because the best-known contemporary torturers happen to be from the United States. It’s still a bit hard to conjure up President Barack Obama’s rationale for protecting the guilty parties. But whatever that reason may be, it hardly seems worthy.
Diagnosing a Military-Industrial Complex
The Lineup: Week of April 4-10, 2011
In this week’s OtherWords editorial package, we’ve got three Tax Day op-eds–including one by Chuck Collins that tells Congress where to find $400 billion a year in revenue–and a cartoon by Khalil Bendib lampooning GOP budget priorities
Hey Congress, Want $400 Billion in New Annual Revenue?
Have you heard? America is broke, according to many governors and lawmakers.
Fair Taxation Requires More Brackets at the Top
So many governors are hammering their budgets with a “we’re broke” message these days that it’s amazing our country hasn’t shattered into a thousand separate islands. More and more, however, rational voices are correctly asserting that we’re not broke.
Delivering for America, Six Days a Week
You may not realize how much small towns and rural areas depend on the mail until someone puts it like this: “Folks who die after midnight on a Friday could be buried before their relatives read about the death in my Monday edition.”
Finally: Fairer Tax Reporting
Employers have reported the income all Americans earn from regular jobs to the Internal Revenue Service since World War II. Starting this year, U.S. taxpayers and their brokers finally have to do the same thing with the income earned from capital gains.
