US Editorials US Editorials Rss feed

  • Words Of Wisdom For The Graduating Class Of Moore Okla.

    With a city still in shambles from a deadly tornado, high school students in Moore, Okla., are graduating Saturday. High school students in Moore, Okla., will graduate on schedule Saturday, 6 p.m. at the convention center. Even more than usual, high school graduates in Moore may feel that this is a week in which they have, as the phrase from Corinthians says it, "put away ...

  • Sole Survivor Iraq Rescue Mission Ended In Tragedy

    In our latest installment of the StoryCorps Military Voices Initiative, we hear from Lance Cpl. Travis Williams. In 2005, while serving in Iraq, Williams and his 12-man squad came under attack. He was the only ...

  • IRS leaders had plenty of opportunities to come clean

    The following editorial appeared in Friday's Washington Post:Why didn't Congress know earlier that the Internal Revenue Service had targeted conservative groups for special scrutiny? In days of hearings, lawmakers have tried to get a satisfactory answer from witnesses under oath. They haven't succeeded.According to a Treasury Department inspector general's report, Lois ...

  • Letters My View irresponsible

    Publishing information in your paper that seeks to attribute the MMR vaccine to autism is grossly irresponsible and destructive. The link stated by Cindy Pokezwinski in this piece is not based in scientific fact ("MMR vaccine caused my son's autism," May ...

  • Letters Fair Tax and the IRS

    Recent news regarding the IRS targeting certain political groups and their members for harassment via tax-exempt applications and tax return audits provides further reason why we the people should vote to disband the ...


cloudy
San Diego Weather
60.2°F Overcast
Winds: From the East at 3.5 MPH Gusting to 4.5 MPH
Sun
mostlycloudy
64° 57°
Mon
mostlycloudy
64° 63°
Tue
mostlycloudy
68° 63°
Last Updated on May 25, 5:07 AM PDT
Weather sourced from Weather Underground

Movie Review

Jason X [DVD]

Jason X [DVD]

Despite going to hell in Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday back in 1993, Jason Vorhees has been resurrected ... again ... in a tenth installment of the obviously never-ending Friday the 13th series that wore out its energy and imagination a long, long time ago. Since the series entered the stage of parody as early as the sixth installment, it has already worn out its legs as pote ... ...

On Facebook

  • Can Obama walk the walk on terror policy

    newly restrained vision of the way the nation fights terror is an important and necessary recalibration that acknowledges the long-term nature of the battle this country is fighting.We were glad to see the president articulate a narrowing of the use of unmanned drone attacks abroad, and that he remains open to the notion of a "drone court," which would provide oversight for drone ...

  • Special prosecutor for IRS

    As the White House obfuscated and IRS officer Lois Lerner plead the Fifth, calls for a special prosecutor grew louder in the nation's capital this week. Not so fast, says Michigan Rep. Dave Camp, R-Midland, who is overseeing House Ways and Means Committee investigations into the ...

  • Our readers on the News

    The Detroit News aims to provide a forum that fosters smart, civil discussions on the news and events that we cover. The News will not condone personal attacks, off topic posts or brutish language on our site. If you find a comment that you believe violates these standards, please click the "X" in the upper right corner of the post to report ...

  • George F. Will Obama takes a page from George Wallaces book

    Early in an opinion issued recently by a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, Judge A. Raymond Randolph says: "Although the parties have not raised it, one issue needs to be resolved before we turn to the merits of the case." The issue he raised but could not resolve — that is up to the Supreme Court — illuminates ...

  • My view Fighting the ignoble reign of money

    The older I get, the more I am convinced of the truth of the oft-repeated maxim suggesting money is at the heart of much ...

More US Editorials