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Editorial: Allowing tensions with Israel to simmer is not in America's best strategic interests

Sun, 21 Mar 2010 01:00:00 EST

The Obama administration must move to ease tensions with Israel. Allowing relations to fray with our truest ally in the Middle East is not in the best interests of the United States or Israel and presents a threat to the stability of the region.

Nolan Finley: Commentary: It's change or die for DPS

Sun, 21 Mar 2010 01:37:00 EST

Robert Bobb's vision for radically restructuring Detroit's failing education system is validated by the decision of Kansas City to shutter half of its schools. The choice for DPS is change or die.

Letters

Sun, 21 Mar 2010 01:00:00 EST

Eat your vegetables; Column dismissive

Kathleen Parker: Moderates are in search of a political home

Sun, 21 Mar 2010 01:00:00 EST

It will surprise few to learn that the big picture often slips unnoticed past Washington's window.

Charles Krauthammer: Obama administration creates a needless crisis with Israel

Sun, 21 Mar 2010 01:00:00 EST

Why did President Barack Obama choose to turn a gaffe into a crisis in U.S.-Israeli relations?

George Will: Betting on yet another education fix

Sun, 21 Mar 2010 01:00:00 EST

Doubling down on dubious bets is characteristic of compulsive gamblers and federal education policy. The nation was essentially without such policy for grades K through 12, and better off for that, until 1965. In that year of liberals living exuberantly, they produced the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. Now yet another president has announced yet another plan to fix education. His aspiration has a discouraging pedigree.

Thomas Sowell: 'Stimulus' hasn't been very stimulating

Sun, 21 Mar 2010 01:00:00 EST

Abraham Lincoln once asked an audience how many legs a dog has, if you called the tail a leg? When the audience said "five," Lincoln corrected them, saying that the answer was four. "The fact that you call a tail a leg does not make it a leg."

Editorial Quick Hits: Boost campaign disclosure

Sat, 20 Mar 2010 01:00:00 EST

The Michigan Chamber of Commerce is asking Secretary of State Terri Lynn Land for a ruling on what details it must disclose regarding its spending on campaigns, now that a U.S. Supreme Court decision has opened the door for unlimited corporate funding of campaign and issue advertising. The chamber wants to know whether it's enough to disclose that money it spends on behalf of office seekers and causes has come from its own treasury, or also must name the businesses that poured bucks into its campaign kitty. Michigan citizens deserve to know precisely who's bankrolling any and all efforts, from the chamber, unions and other groups, to influence their opinions and votes. Lawmakers should make Land's job easier by passing new requirements to guarantee that.

Editorial Quick Hits: Other views

Sat, 20 Mar 2010 01:00:00 EST

Obama's misguided Jerusalem policy; Serving public servants; Why try Sept.11 mastermind?; The green job illusion

Mexico needs more help to fight drug lords

Sat, 20 Mar 2010 01:00:00 EST

Maybe it's time for the United States to be something akin to a world cop, at least in Mexico, working as actively as needed with the government of President Felipe Calderon to defeat drug cartels that torture cops to death, assassinate journalists, will slaughter 15 teens partying at someone's house and even enter funeral homes and kill the mourners.