Do not expect any partying at the White House on Wednesday.
Press secretary Robert Gibbs says nothing special is being planned to take note of Barack Obama's first year as president. Obama took the oath of office Jan. 20, 2009.
Gibbs acknowledged that Wednesday is an …
AURORA, N.Y. - The ominous chill Republicans are feeling these days has little to do with October's blustery winds and everything to do with the big coattails Hillary Rodham Clinton and Eliot Spitzer bring to the top of the state Democratic ticket on Election Day.
With voters across the country signaling discontent with the Republican-led Congress and President Bush's administration, New York Republicans fear that three of their once-safe House seats are in jeopardy - out of 15 GOP seats nationwide that could swing the House to Democratic control.
"New York state is in a death spiral," state legislature candidate Tim Julian, a Republican, said at a recent political forum …
Former Arizona Gov. Fife Symington (R), who resigned his office in 1997 after a conviction for using false financial statements to obtain several loans, is considering a run for the state House of Representatives next year. After an appeals court overturned his convictions, Symington was cleared of criminal liability when President Clinton pardoned him in January.
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Byline: ANDREW GREELEY
It is time that certain Catholic liberals give up their knee-jerk response to the sexual abuse problem. "Let priests marry, let them have legitimate sexual pleasures and then they won't become pederasts," they say. This argument, heard usually from those who would claim to be feminists, reduces the wife in a marriage to the role of satisfying a man's sexual needs so he won't have to victimize young boys.
A recent study of schoolteachers as pederasts leaves little doubt that some married men and women will prey on their students whenever they think they can get away with it. They might just be the kind of people who enjoy variety in …
Byline: CHRIS ORTLOFF Member of Assembly PLATTSBURGH
The June 8 Times Union editorial (``A state budget, almost at last''), which said ``the governor's proposed third phase of a state income tax cut is still missing and may never be enacted,'' presented readers with a slightly inaccurate picture of this issue, which has been an important concern to me and Republican members of the Assembly since 1987.
First, at no time since he first sought to repeal it has the governor proposed allowing the tax cut to take place. His executive budget requests for each of the past six fiscal years have sought another repeal and postponement of the income tax cut. …
Here are excerpts from editorials in newspapers around the world:
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Jan. 20
Aftenposten, Oslo, Norway, on the Middle East:
The absence of war is not the same as peace. The cease-fire that went into force for the Gaza Strip this weekend is extremely fragile. None of the fundamental conflicts between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas movement have been solved. The path back to armed conflict is dangerously short.
More than 1,300 Palestinians have been killed since Israeli planes began attacks on Dec. 27 to stop rocket strikes from Gaza against southern Israel. In the same period, 13 Israelis lost their lives. ...
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DIVING GEAR
About 14,000 Maximus Scuba diving regulators are being recalledbecause of reports of a broken component.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission and Irvine, Calif.-basedSherwood Scuba LLC on Tuesday announced the recall of the MaximusScuba regulators, which were sold nationwide by Sherwood dealers fromJanuary 1998 through November 2000.
Sherwood Scuba received seven reports of broken second-stageorifices on the regulators. Two broke during dives. No injuries werereported; the damage can result in …
