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FILE - In this Feb. 18, 2014 file photo, Malala Yousafzai, visits Zaatari refugee camp near the Syrian border in Mafraq, Jordan. Pakistani police say that eight out of 10 militants charged with involvement in the 2012 attack on teenage activist Malala Yousafzai were actually acquitted in April — not sentenced to life in prison as reported at the time. (AP Photo/Mohammad Hannon, File)

EDITORIAL: Growing terror threat in Pakistan

Pakistan is a headache for the West, with its 185 million Muslims suffering a fragile combination of its military, the only viable national institution (civil Punjabi elite descended from British India) and a growing threat of Islamic terrorists. That balance may be coming unhinged, and then a bigger headache. Chaos in Pakistan would threaten further mischief in the 1.3-billion ummah, the Islamic world stretching from Zamboanga in the southern Philippines to Dakar in West Africa.

June 10, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: National leaders deserve encouragement

American citizens ought to be more encouraging and less critical of local and national leaders. Increasingly, the majority of criticisms directed at those in positions of leadership have not been constructive, but destructive. Most are rooted in ignorance, jealousy, envy, hatred, phobias, and many types of isms. To the proud originators of destructive criticism, the words of President Theodore Roosevelt are most applicable.

June 9, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Obama’s convenience ‘Judaism’

When a pathological liar tells a whopper, he does it in spades. Now President Obama has become a 'convenience Jew,' just like Sen. Chuck Schumer, New York Democrat, and the rest ("Obama's boast: 'I am the closest thing to a Jew that has ever sat' in the Oval Office," Web, June 2).

June 9, 2015
In this April 2, 2015, file photo, President Obama speaks the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington about the breakthrough in the Iranian nuclear talks. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

EDITORIAL: Countdown for Obamacare

Nobody, not even a president, can safely assume that he knows how the U.S. Supreme Court will decide a case before it, but President Obama surely sounds worried that the high court is about to unravel his health care scheme. The case before the court, King v. Burwell, is one of the two most anticipated before the court takes a recess at the end of June. The other is about whether the states and not the federal government can regulate marriage.

June 9, 2015
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker speaks during the North Carolina Republican Party convention in Raleigh, N.C., Friday, June 5, 2015. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome) ** FILE **

EDITORIAL: Scott Walker asks why state university professors get lifetime job

Scott Walker, in hot pursuit of the Republican nomination for president, knows no fear of sacred cows. He is attempting to reform the concept of permanent faculty appointments at Wisconsin's publicly financed universities. The governor wants to repeat his earlier surprising victory in which a conservative chief executive in a very blue state took on the increasingly powerful and increasingly political teachers' unions, and trimmed their empty sails.

June 9, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Spying — but not where it matters

Radical Islam is forcing the United States into succumbing to the threat of terrorism. In the interest of national security (or so says the Congress and the Obama administration), the telephone companies will be holding mass-collected telephone data from you and me pursuant to the U.S. Freedom Act.

June 8, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: U.S. anti-ISIS fight toothless

We have become accustomed to Congress members complaining that the actions taken against the Islamic State are halfhearted, or worse, ineffective. They are correct. Far too few attacks have been undertaken against the terrorist group, and even with these limited numbers too many planes return without having dropped their bombs because of the ultra-restrictive rules of engagement.

June 8, 2015
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EDITORIAL: EPA finds fracking does not cause widespread harm to drinking water

It's a "man bites dog" story, but with a modern twist: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has found that fracking does not cause widespread harm to America's drinking water. In an era when there seems to be no end to left-wing prosecution of innovators for the "rape of Mother Earth," who would have expected a verdict of "not guilty?"

June 8, 2015

Wounded Warrior Caregiving Hero: Meet Precious Goodson

Precious Goodson, like many military caregivers, had to make a decision most people will never have to make — to retreat from the world they know and enter a totally different environment, leaving behind most everything familiar that brought comfort and balance to their lives.

June 7, 2015
Members of the media as they film four of the original surviving Magna Carta manuscripts that have been brought together by the British Library for the first time, during a media preview in London. Documents being displayed at the British Library show that Britain offered the United States a copy of the Magna Carta in hopes of persuading a reluctant America to enter World War II and fight against Nazi Germany. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

EDITORIAL: Magna Carta turns 800 this week

Some anniversaries are important, some are remembered and some are forgotten. One of the most important anniversaries in the history of Western civilization that must not be forgotten will be marked this week for the 800th time. The rights derived from the Magna Carta, by which the Constitution lives, guard the lives of every American.

June 7, 2015
Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. **FILE**

EDITORIAL: Obamacare on the critical list

The future of Obamacare teeters, waiting for a decision by the U.S. Supreme Court, and many Americans are concerned over budget-breaking rate increases in their health insurance coming in 2016. Proposed rates from major insurance companies look to be arriving on a runaway train and those Americans appear to be tied up and lying across the tracks. This was not the way President Obama promised it would be.

June 7, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Taiwan’s peace initiative a good deal for all

Contrary to your recent editorial, Republic of China (Taiwan) President Ma Ying-jeou's South China Sea Peace Initiative (SCSPI), which calls on parties concerned to shelve territorial disputes in favor of the joint exploitation of natural resources in the South China Sea, did not walk Taiwan "into a trap" that "fits into Beijing's strategy" ("Face-off in Singapore," May 29). Quite to the contrary, Mr. Ma's peace initiative will provide the necessary framework to avoid any real trap, namely the trap of ever-increasing tensions among South China Sea claimants and the associated risks such tensions entail.

June 7, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Hillary Clinton’s chance shot

Hillary Clinton's main problem in her long-term campaign to become president is having that heavy monkey on her back that is impossible to shake off: Bill Clinton, the impeached and disgraced former president.

June 7, 2015
The Greek flag flies at the top of the Athens Academy building, in Athens, Thursday, June 4, 2015 .Greece remains at loggerheads with creditors over key economic reforms after a meeting between Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and the head of the European Union's executive arm failed to yield a breakthrough on the release of vital bailout loans. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

EDITORIAL: Greek bailout saga continues

If this is Friday in Athens, there must be another deadline. The Greek government is supposed to redeem more loans from the International Monetary Fund. In theory, Athens should be able to sell bonds and come up with the cash. But the European Central Bank, acting as the sheriff for members of the euro monetary union, won't issue the bonds until Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras agrees to a new round of austerity measures. Even at astronomical rates of interest, the private banks aren't interested in buying the bonds.

June 4, 2015
Internal Revenue Service Commissioner John Koskinen (Associated Press) **FILE**

EDITORIAL: IRS plagued by scandal, inefficiency

Americans guard their privacy jealously, as they should, and defend their property with their lives, sometimes foolishly. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has infringed both privacy and property with a lengthy list of taxpayer abuses. Few instances, though, are more damaging than the loss of the personal information of more than 100,000 taxpayers to the depredations of hackers. The government has fundamentally violated its covenant with the governed, and the revenuers answer for it with more excuses.

June 4, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Not all Okinawans want U.S. base

Robert Eldridge accuses the supporters of Okinawa Governor Takeshi Onaga, who was recently in Washington to appeal the Okinawa issue, by saying they do not represent "all Okinawa" at all because "Okinawan public opinion is very much divided" ("The other side to the Okinawa story," Web, May 31). Sure enough, there is a right-wing fringe group in Okinawa that is viscerally pro-U.S.-military-presence, pro-Henoko-relocation and pro-revisionism. Mr. Eldridge is closely associated with this group. He is even a hero among them.

June 4, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Where is HSBC outrage?

I can't believe I'm reading more bad news coming from HSBC, perhaps the most corrupt bank in the history of the world. After paying a record $2-billion fine a few years ago for money laundering to murderous drug cartels and terrorists, the banking giant, federal prosecutors are now saying, could still be committing these illegal, anti-American acts ultimately designed to kill innocent Americans.

June 4, 2015