Provides the latest RSS feeds for US Editorials. For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Dallas Sun.com http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/cat/09c0947bd4eaa867/ en-us Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:24:45 -0400 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:24:45 -0400 30 services for Seattle Central Community College, which owns the Egyptian, he is basically the theater’s landlord. And the interest in preserving the theater has been so strong this morning that Keever said the college will quickly open a bidding process. ';This is actually very exciting,'; said Keever. He believes it would likely be attractive as a performing arts space as well as ... http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215277632/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:16:47 -0400 http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215277632/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 In 2000, I greeted the first entering graduate-student class at Berkeley where the women outnumbered the men. I was the first female dean of the graduate division. As a ‘70s feminist I cautiously thought, "Is the revolution over? Have we won?" Hardly. That afternoon I looked around the room at my first dean’s meeting and all I saw were gray-haired men. The next week at the ... http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215276233/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:24:32 -0400 http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215276233/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 OGDEN -- It was a quiet part of the Father's Day Mass as about 300 people stood up in preparation for communion. A parishioner, known by many ... http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215276234/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:16:21 -0400 http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215276234/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 But just imagine how many more bucks taxpayers will lose in the black hole of government if the public is unable to track tax dollars and hold local officials accountable for ... http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215276236/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:54:13 -0400 http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215276236/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 People on both sides of the guns debate -- but mostly the pro-guns side -- look at the story of Orange County's gun-toting grandma and say, "See, this proves our ... http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215276235/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:54:12 -0400 http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215276235/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 While being treated for brain cancer in 2009, my friend Jackie and her family were well served by the Richard M. Schulze American Cancer Society Hope Lodge. It's a well-appointed, comforting home away from home for cancer patients at University of Minnesota Medical Center/Fairview. That personal connection with the generosity ... http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215274802/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:16:29 -0400 http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215274802/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Instantaneous background checks during gun purchases is a good idea, but I will not support the Washington Alliance for Gun Responsibility's (WALFGUR) petition to require it for many private transfers. ["Advocates unveil gun background-check initiative," NW Wednesday, June 12] Their initiative is not about background checks. It's about increasing the waiting period for ... http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215273282/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:54:12 -0400 http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215273282/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 The late-night comics put their spin on the latest Kardashian "spinoff": the birth of Kim Kardashian and Kanye West's baby girl. What chance do you think their child has for a normal life out of the public eye? Here's what the comedians thought as they welcomed the new addition to the family. Take a look at our favorite jokes from the lineup, then vote for yours in the quick ... http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215273283/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:53:44 -0400 http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215273283/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 If a House school consolidation bill passes, Inkster Public Schools may be dissolved and its students sent elsewhere. (Clarence Tabb Jr./The Detroit ... http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215271787/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:52:50 -0400 http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215271787/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 We are always at risk from threats to our physical well being, both natural and man-made; we live with the daily threat of individual harm or extinction. In a democracy, the key is how to balance this inevitability with freedom. History is replete with examples of freedoms lost in the face of real or imagined threats to a society. Fear is never a good basis upon which to make decisions. How much ... http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215271788/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:52:48 -0400 http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215271788/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 The Washington Senate proposal to take away state-funded health insurance from part-time community college faculty could be disastrous for higher education, particularly occupational education in science-technology (STEM) and health. ["Part-time school, college staff may lose state health benefits," NW Thursday, June 13.] The measure would cause critical reductions in the number of ... http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215271789/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:47:23 -0400 http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215271789/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Society for Philosophy and Psychology , affectionately known as "SPP." Daniel Dennett was in the seat just ahead of me; additional luminaries were scattered about the room. A quick count revealed about equal numbers of men and women in the audience -- an unusual figure for an event in philosophy, ... http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215270403/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 09:52:53 -0400 http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215270403/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Early birds onlyAlan Berner / The Seattle Times The event of my Saturday morning was the dock sale at Ocean Beauty Seafoods. Really it isn't on a dock, but at a warehouse on a dirt road over the railroad tracks by the south end of the Ballard Bridge. I was late. The sale went from 8 a.m. to 11. I got there at 9:45: too late for the black cod. Too late for the sea bass. Still, there were ... http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215270406/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 09:41:09 -0400 http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215270406/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 2013 Paris Air Show(AP Photo: Jacques Brinon) The Pacific Northwest's reputation for building the world's best airplanes is getting its proper respect , according to U.S. Rep. Rick Larsen, D-Lake Stevens. Larsen is filling in for Gov. Inslee, who was grounded in Olympia by the Legislature's failure to launch the next state budget. Larsen, in a conference call with reporters ... http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215270405/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 09:41:09 -0400 http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215270405/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 I had to take a second look to see that these young people were graduating Roosevelt High School, and not the School of Boorish Behavior. ["Guterson heckled for gloomy speech at Roosevelt graduation," NW Friday, June 14.] How sad, shocking and downright rude of these students and probably their parents! Nationally known local author David Guterson attends a graduation ceremony and ... http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215270404/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 09:41:09 -0400 http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215270404/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 The running shoe is all wrong for the human foot, so Orem's Golden Harper came up with a solution — a radically different shoe called Altra that is expected to do $20 million in sales this year and challenge the big brand names in the ... http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215269182/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 08:42:40 -0400 http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215269182/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 We’ve urged the state Senate to pick up the pace on welfare reforms and happily they’ve obliged. A bill released by Senate leaders at midday yesterday is set for a full debate Thursday. As promised, the Senate is taking a broad approach; call it "Welfare Reform II," after the 1995 crackdown that introduced a stronger work requirement for recipients of public assistance.The ... http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215266999/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 06:17:31 -0400 http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215266999/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 There are many ways in which technology has improved things at work, home and in government. But we're skeptical of a plan by the Lafayette City Council to allow members to attend meetings remotely via phone, video or Internet. Lafayette officials approved a "remote attendance" policy earlier this month by a vote of 4-2, with one member absent. After a keen-eyed citizen pointed out ... http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215264142/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 03:05:03 -0400 http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215264142/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 In the economic history of our time, June 6, 2013, ought to occupy a special place. That's the day the Federal Reserve disclosed that the net worth of American households -- the value of what they own minus what they owe -- hit $70 trillion, a record that exceeded the previous peak before the 2007-09 financial crisis. Higher stock prices and a long-awaited housing recovery are slowly ... http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215263316/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 02:23:36 -0400 http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215263316/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 In an effort to improve our nation's education system and make students better prepared for college and careers, a new set of standards is now sweeping across classrooms throughout the United States. It's an approach call the Common Core and it has been heavily discussed at the Education Nation ... http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215263318/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 02:21:34 -0400 http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215263318/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 The following editorial appeared recently in the San Jose Mercury News: Silicon Valley has a problem. The furor over the Obama administration's use of technology to track possible terrorists has cast a spotlight on the private information Valley companies collect. The question is: Is government's disclosure of its use of data for national security more important than companies' ... http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215263317/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 02:21:33 -0400 http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215263317/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 In laying out his blueprint for saving Detroit, Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr is finally forcing the city to accept that its priority must be providing services, not jobs and benefits. The plan he presented to creditors is weighted toward residents and asks tremendous sacrifice of workers, retirees and debt holders. Those expecting Orr to solve ... http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215262452/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 01:18:21 -0400 http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215262452/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Detroit turns away needed investors By Henry Payne An oil sands byproduct, petroleum coke, has brought more business to the ... http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215262450/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 01:18:20 -0400 http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215262450/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Activists protest in front of mounds of of petroleum coke on the Detroit waterfront. Pet coke is a byproduct of the nearby Marathon oil refinery. (David Coates/The Detroit ... http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215262451/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 01:18:20 -0400 http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215262451/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 The bitterest fights tend to be civil wars. Today, Syria is going through such a brutal bloodletting. The Obama administration reportedly has decided to provide arms to ... http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215262449/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 01:18:19 -0400 http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215262449/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Readers say that councilman Kwame Kenyatta, who is collecting a check but not showing up to work, symbolizes Detroit's problems. (Robin Buckson/The Detroit ... http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215262448/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 01:18:19 -0400 http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215262448/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 OK, so the newly elected president of Iran isn’t a hate-spewing, Holocaust denying whack-job like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.And sure, that’s a good thing. It speaks to the good sense of the people of Iran who, no doubt, would like their leader not to be a source of international embarrassment. It also is encouraging that Hasan Rowhani, the only cleric in the presidential race, spent much of ... http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215262453/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 01:00:09 -0400 http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215262453/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 The recent IRS scandal has been disturbing, and I feel that blame must be established only after we carefully determine the people responsible ("IRS goin’ to Disneyland," June 5).If we rush to conclusions, then we may be basing our decisions on misconceptions. The investigation must be bipartisan, to make sure that political favoritism, or any other type of bias, does not taint ... http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215262454/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 01:00:07 -0400 http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215262454/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 While it is true that the Obama administration has been uniquely hostile to the exploitation of America’s vast hydrocarbon energy resources, not every bad energy policy has originated during this president’s tenure. One such counterproductive policy dates to the 1970s: the ban on exports of crude oil. The ban was predicated on the belief that two factors would starve the United States ... http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215262456/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 01:00:03 -0400 http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215262456/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 James "Whitey" Bulger is nearing the end of the trail ("Noble crime lord - or ‘hands-on killer,’ " June 13).Over the next few months, government prosecutors will try to make Whitey out to be a very bad man. That should not be too hard for them to do. They will also try to make the FBI out to be a very honest organization. That is going to take some doing. ... http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215262457/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 01:00:01 -0400 http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215262457/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Are Americans becoming more libertarian on cultural issues? I see evidence that they are, in poll findings and election results on three unrelated issues - marijuana legalization, same-sex marriage and gun rights.Start with pot. Last November, voters in the states of Colorado and Washington voted to legalize marijuana, by a 55 to 45 percent margin in Colorado (more than Barack Obama’s ... http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215262455/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:59:57 -0400 http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215262455/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 One of the charms of watching a beauty pageant these days seems to be the inevitable YouTube moment when a contestant botches a question designed to show her bikini comes with a brain. So no one can really be surprised by the torrent of tweets and snarks following Sunday’s Miss USA contest, where Miss Utah flubbed a question about the gender gap on wages. Yet as badly as Miss Utah may have ... http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215261653/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:21:28 -0400 http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215261653/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 We have long supported the recommendation of a bipartisan panel. In recent years, too many states seem to have been more interested in imposing voter ID requirements than in making sure eligible voters weren't disenfranchised by them. The same may apply to citizenship tests. After Arizona voted in 2004 to require voters prove their citizenship, more than 30,000 people were turned away ... http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215260008/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:01:00 -0400 http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215260008/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Nuclear program is also popular among the regime's opponents. The results of Friday's election in Iran could have conceivably been worse for U.S. interests, but there is little reason to believe that the election of Hasan Rowhani, a relative moderate within Iran's theocratic system, should significantly change U.S. strategy toward Iran and its nuclear program. OUR ... http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215260009/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:00:58 -0400 http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215260009/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 However, his instinct for pragmatism could lead him to press Khamenei to stop the program short of the West's red line. It would be hard not to cheer the results of Iran's weekend presidential election, if only for the moment.The surprise winner, cleric Hasan Rowhani, is by all accounts the least extreme candidate voters could have picked, and "least extreme" is about as good ... http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215260010/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:00:58 -0400 http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215260010/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Right on! ["Guest Column: Many share responsibility for civilian deaths, Sgt. Bales," Opinion, June 15.] Thank goodness he had the courage to point out the obvious: 1. Multiple tours are immoral and 2. Institute the draft and find out how quickly these immoral "wars" would end once our kids were jerked out of the good life, put on boots and marched to Afghanistan to have ... http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215259070/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:57:47 -0400 http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215259070/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Letters to the editor:It has been six months since the massacre in Newtown, Conn., yet Congress has failed to enact common-sense gun legislation. Last week, there was another shooting in St. Louis and at least four people were killed. How many more need to die before we have had enough? This is not about the Second Amendment; no one is confiscating guns. This is about keeping guns away from the ... http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215259072/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:57:25 -0400 http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215259072/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Six months after the shootings in Newtown, Conn., we asked our Twitter followers: What's the best way to address gun violence? Comments are edited for clarity and grammar:Members of Congress and states have done exactly what their voters wanted on the issue of guns. It differs by state.-- @MaggioMattLawmakers should allow everyone who passes a background check and qualified gun-training ... http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215259071/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:57:25 -0400 http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215259071/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 The Iranian presidential election ended with a surprise win by moderate candidate Hasan Rowhani. Comments from Facebook:I hope Hasan Rowhani has a superior security detail because all the hard-liners won't like him. If Iran is going to join the rest of the world, this would be the guy to do it. Come on, Iran, join us!-- Kathleen O'ReganPeople who know how Iran works are aware that the ... http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215259073/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:57:24 -0400 http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215259073/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 According to the records and testimony, he was a Nazi soldier who may have had a hand in the murdering of many civilians. To them, his age is as arbitrary a factor no different than if he was rich, poor, female, young, short, tall. There’s no magic age where you no longer have to face justice, so whether he’s 94, 72, 22, or 122, he needs to do so for what he allegedly ... http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215258090/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:09:22 -0400 http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215258090/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 This is the home in NE Minneapolis where 94 year old Michael Karkoc lives. He is accused of being a top commander of a Nazi SS-led unit accused of burning villages filled with women and children lied to American immigration officials to get into the United States and has been living in Minnesota since shortly after World War II, according to evidence uncovered by The Associated ... http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215258088/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:09:20 -0400 http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215258088/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Minneapolis DFL convention, the party’s state chair allowed that having no endorsement would be a bad outcome - not for the city or those who seek to lead it, but for the city’s strongest political ... http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215258089/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:09:19 -0400 http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215258089/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Now, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed reclassifying captive chimpanzees as well, moving them from the "threatened" category to "endangered," a change that brings with it stricter guidelines covering the handling and use of the animals. In the future, any procedure that harms, harasses or kills a research chimp would require a ... http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215258091/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:09:18 -0400 http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215258091/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Restoring drained wetlands and plowed grasslands has been a priority for the Outdoor Heritage Fund, created by passage in 2008 of the Legacy Amendment and overseen by the Lessard-Sams Outdoor Heritage ... http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215258092/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:09:17 -0400 http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215258092/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 If the government wants to read my email, go right ahead. ["Investigators target how leaker got top-secret data," page one, June 11] If they want to listen to my phone calls, no problem. If they want to know my political leanings, check my yard signs and bumper stickers. But what happens between me and my doctor is strictly ... http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215258094/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Mon, 17 Jun 2013 19:55:11 -0400 http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215258094/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Lt. Gov. Brad Owen prepares to bang a gavel to officially adjourn the first special legislative session Tuesday, June 11. Washington state lawmakers have been called into a second special session to finish their work on the state budget. (AP Photo/Rachel La ... http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215258093/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Mon, 17 Jun 2013 19:55:10 -0400 http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215258093/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 It would be wrong to think of the events in Turkey as another chapter in the "Arab spring" movements, writes guest columnist Resat ... http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215258095/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Mon, 17 Jun 2013 19:55:10 -0400 http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215258095/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 I don't understand why men can make the choice to avoid relationships and are called "playboys" while women do the same and face the "old maid" moniker. I know I hear it from my own family members. Enough. New game, please. Danielle Campoamor’s recent Times guest column exposed our collective fascination in Seattle with romance ["What’s wrong with ... http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215258096/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Mon, 17 Jun 2013 19:55:09 -0400 http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215258096/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 But as aggressive as Crump has been in seeking monetary compensation for Martin's family, he is even more tireless in his efforts to make this case less about race than the quest for justice. SANFORD, FLA. - Benjamin Crump, the highest profile lawyer in the Trayvon Martin murder case, is just a spectator in the courtroom where the man who killed the unarmed 17-year-old boy is about to be ... http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215258097/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Mon, 17 Jun 2013 19:54:42 -0400 http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215258097/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 In Florida, John Andrew Welden was charged with first-degree murder and product tampering in tricking his girlfriend into taking the chemical abortion drug Cytotec after she refused to end her pregnancy. His ex-girlfriend, Remee Lee, 26, also has filed a lawsuit against ... http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215258098/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Mon, 17 Jun 2013 19:54:42 -0400 http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215258098/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 can still link to it .) Then Facebook happened. And Twitter. And beyond those two dominant social-media platforms, there are a host of other, newer options for staying in touch and letting the digital universe get a look at your life. And for certain kinds of sharing, some of those other options make more sense to tech-savvy teens than the Big Two do. On ... http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215256718/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:59:25 -0400 http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215256718/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 pulled this week, far too young , from the menu of a rogue Manitoba Wendy's that served it to two or three people a day. It is survived by the few people who ate it and survived. Said a Wendy's spokesperson: "For obvious reasons, Wendy's ... neither condones nor promotes the idea of anyone consuming a nine-patty hamburger in one sitting." Said us: "For obvious ... http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215255976/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:59:24 -0400 http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215255976/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 The amendment to the broad-reaching federal law, introduced by Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, is bad policy that would override the wishes of Californians and threaten progressive anti-cruelty laws such as the state's shark-fin ban and Proposition 2, which gives farm animals, including egg-laying chickens, more room to stretch their ... http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215255977/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:35:10 -0400 http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215255977/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Listener Rachel Sumner of Ithaca, N.Y., recounts the story of her bat-infested trip to Ecuador for our series on vacation horror stories. A bat in her hotel room would keep returning no matter how many times she captured it and took it out. She had to get rabies shots and now has no sympathy for ... http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215254826/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:55:37 -0400 http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215254826/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., flanked by Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., left, and Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., right, speaks about immigration reform legislation by the Senate's bipartisan "Gang of Eight" that would create a path for the nation's 11 million unauthorized immigrants to apply for U.S. citizenship, April 18, on Capitol Hill in ... http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215254827/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:49:44 -0400 http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215254827/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Iran's national elections last week is a sign that the Iranian people — if not the conservative clerics who have final say on policy matters — are ready for a change. The Obama administration should seize the opportunity and attempt to reopen talks with the new president-elect in order to seriously explore whether he can move his country toward resolving the issues surrounding ... http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215254828/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:30:39 -0400 http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215254828/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 California may be boasting a $1.2 billion budget surplus this year, but it and other states still face the growing problem of what to do about pensions for state workers, according ... http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215253772/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:46:39 -0400 http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215253772/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 bad last week , but it looks much, much worse now. The federal government has been spying and lying. The only comfort is that, apparently, it's been largely incompetent at both: Nobody believes the lies, and the ... http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215252630/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Mon, 17 Jun 2013 14:39:43 -0400 http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215252630/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 You would probably have to over the age of 50 to remember when late May and early June meant shad in Maryland. In those days, the spawning season for American shad and river herring brought young and old to the banks of Maryland tributaries to catch their share of fish once so bountiful that they were shipped by the rail car load from Crisfield to Baltimore. Shad filet and shad roe were as big a ... http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215252631/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Mon, 17 Jun 2013 14:26:07 -0400 http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215252631/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 The regime of Vladimir Putin has always presented successful, liberal-minded Russians with a quandary: To what extent are they willing to put up with an authoritarian government in return for making a life in their native ... http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215250223/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Mon, 17 Jun 2013 12:49:22 -0400 http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215250223/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 If liberals succeed in blocking any serious entitlement reform during the Obama presidency, as seems increasingly likely, they will have handed conservatives a ... http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215250222/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Mon, 17 Jun 2013 12:49:20 -0400 http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215250222/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 , a kids' show on Cartoon Network. Some are surely Emmy voters. (It's won three.) Others are very possibly stoners. Still others are intellectuals. Lev Grossman falls in the last category. He wrote two best-selling ... http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215250226/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Mon, 17 Jun 2013 12:45:57 -0400 http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215250226/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 policy change in which only clear plastic bags would be allowed into stadiums -- one per person. Nothing they can't see through. The league says that the change is meant to ensure safety while speeding up security checks and preventing gate backups, which sounds good enough at the outset. In the handful of days since, this has largely been framed as an issue affecting women, who won't ... http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215250225/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Mon, 17 Jun 2013 12:45:57 -0400 http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215250225/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Television personality and host Giuliana Rancic looks on as Miss Utah USA Marissa Powell answers a question from a judge during the interview portion of the 2013 Miss USA pageant on Sunday ... http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215250224/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Mon, 17 Jun 2013 12:45:57 -0400 http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215250224/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 The Pentagon says it doesn’t need them, can’t afford to maintain them. Two congressional panels say you’re stuck with them. At a time of federal budget squeezing, the Defense Department’s effort to close installations rendered unnecessary by troop drawdowns has hit a political ... http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215248993/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Mon, 17 Jun 2013 11:47:17 -0400 http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215248993/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 A supporter holds a picture of Edward Snowden, a former CIA employee who leaked top-secret information about U.S. surveillance programs, outside the U.S. Consulate General in Hong Kong. (The Associated Press / Kin Cheung) Since when is columnist David Brooks a psychiatrist? He fails to justify why the government listens to and tracks Americans' phone and Internet activity ... http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215248994/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Mon, 17 Jun 2013 11:32:24 -0400 http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215248994/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 statement that the bill "points out the necessity of removing sequestration." True enough, but politically improbable in the current hyper-partisan environment. Sadly, the unnecessary and self-inflicted wounds of sequestration seem likely to remain with us.During my career as a military flier, we had a saying about avoiding accidents and other self-inflicted problems: "Don't ... http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215248996/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Mon, 17 Jun 2013 11:31:59 -0400 http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215248996/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 It seems obvious that a company shouldn’t hold a patent on something that the human body produces. Proprietary patents, after all, protect the exclusive rights to make, use or sell a creation or invention - not something that occurs in ... http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215247828/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Mon, 17 Jun 2013 10:45:42 -0400 http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215247828/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Thirty-five years ago in United States v. Choate, the courts ruled that the Postal Service may record "mail cover," i.e., what's written on the outside of an envelope -- the addresses of sender and receiver.The National Security Agency's recording of U.S. phone data does basically that with the telephone. It records who is calling whom -- the outside of the envelope, as it ... http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215247829/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867 Mon, 17 Jun 2013 10:38:53 -0400 http://www.dallassun.com/index.php/sid/215247829/scat/09c0947bd4eaa867