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Congress chose Yucca Mountain as the leading candidate for nuclear waste disposal. But opponents are concerned about contamination, and the Obama administration said it would not consider the site and would look for alternatives. It won a legal battle when a federal appeals court ruled last week against three states seeking to ship spent fuel to the Nevada site. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: Unlocking Yucca Mountain for nuclear waste

Harry Reid almost got away with wasting billions of the taxpayers' money on a big hole in the ground in his home state of Nevada. With the senator from Searchlight moving swiftly toward retirement, the enormous bunker beneath Yucca Mountain will soon be the needed storage bin for America's spent nuclear fuel. And not a day too soon. The radioactive waste has been accumulating for years at unsecured sites across the continent.

May 14, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: John Hinckley must still pay

The judge who made the decision to allow would-be presidential assassin John Hinckley to enjoy periods of time away from confinement will almost certainly soon rule that Hinckley is to be a free man ("Judge considering life outside hospital for John Hinckley Jr., Ronald Reagan's shooter," Web, May 13).

May 14, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Exercise doesn’t control weight

Whether obesity is an economic problem depends on how you have positioned yourself to capitalize on it ("For economy, U.S. obesity proves a weighty problem," Page I, May 14). If you are part of the diet, exercise, big food, big pharma, big agra or big research industries (to name just a few), then obesity is the goose that laid the golden egg.

May 14, 2015
In this photo taken April 27, 2015, in Mountain Home, Ark., dog owner Sonny Brassfield holds nine of the 23 live .308 caliber rifle rounds his Belgian Malinois “Benno” chewed and swallowed. The dog is expected to fully recover from the two-hour surgery to remove the rounds. (Josh Dooley/The Baxter Bulletin via AP) NO SALES; MANDATORY CREDIT

EDITORIAL: Benno the dog swallows bullets

Mike Huckabee knows Arkansas, even if he did once call it a banana republic, which infuriated some of the locals at the Rotary Club. The former governor gave his latest memoir the provocative title, "God, Guns, Grits and Gravy," which gets it just about right in the land of good times and the magic huckleberry. He left out only frog-gigging, a favorite natural sport.

May 13, 2015
President Barack Obama pauses during a meeting with Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, and Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Wednesday, May 13, 2015, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. The president said the derailment of Amtrak Train 188 "is a tragedy that touches us all." In a statement, Obama said he is offering prayers to the families who lost loved ones and the passengers beginning to recover. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

EDITORIAL: Congressional Republicans should vote for TPP

A filibuster led by Democrats derailed President Obama's request for the fast-track authority that would require the U.S. Senate to vote up-or-down on the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement. The negotiations, the filibuster and the fix the president has put himself in says everything about the differing Republican and Democratic positions on trade. It says a lot, too, about Mr. Obama's ineptitude in dealing his own congressional partisans.

May 13, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Patriot’s cheating to win is losing

Respect. Honesty. Sportsmanship. Fair play. As professional athletics continue to proclaim these values, it becomes more difficult to explain their demise to children. Advising youngsters that cheaters who win are really losers — as these children witness ostensible professionals cheat their way to trophies and rings — makes it tough to direct those kids to the moral high ground in their own athletic endeavors.

May 13, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: GOP must reject Bush wartime logic to win 2016

One of President George W. Bush's primary reasons for authorizing the invasion of Iraq in 2003 was to eliminate the threat of weapons of mass destruction (WMD). Bush's rush to war, known as Operation Iraqi Freedom, was criticized because no WMD ever were uncovered. Still, U.S. forces remained there (and then in Afghanistan) for years.

May 13, 2015
Cuba's President Raul Castro pauses as he speaks to reporters on the tarmac of the Jose Marti airport after escorting France's President Francois Hollande to his plane in Havana, Cuba, Tuesday, May 12, 2015. Castro said Cuba and the U.S. will name ambassadors to each other’s countries as soon as the island is removed from the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism later this month. (AP Photo/Desmond Boylan)

EDITORIAL: Cubans try to control U.S. embassy in Havana

Barack Obama's romance with the Castro brothers is rapidly turning into a sour shack-up. That's what happens sometimes to romances under a tropic moon and the rustle of the coconut palms. Cuba wants to redefine the sanctity of embassies, and how they function. The public still doesn't know what concessions the president is making to keep a flame under the romance, but it doesn't sound good for our side.

May 12, 2015
In this photo taken April 28, 2015, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush speaks in San Juan, Puerto Rico. When Hillary Rodham Clinton takes the stage at fundraisers thrown by a group that wants to elect her president, she’s not a White House candidate. She’s a “special guest.” When Jeb Bush fundraises for a group preparing to run major parts of his all-but-certain presidential campaign, he doesn’t personally ask for money. (AP Photo/Ricardo Arduengo)

EDITORIAL: Jeb Bush holds ground on Common Core, immigration

Jeb Bush has grave differences with the Republicans who will nominate a candidate for president next summer in Cleveland -- differences on immigration, Common Core, and now on his brother's conduct of the war in Iraq. Mr. Bush winces at the notion that he's the "moderate" Republican that so many in his party think he is.

May 12, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Climate needs both parties

I am saddened to watch both our state and federal governments continue to argue about climate change. It doesn't make sense to make the essentially permanent changes to the Earth's physics and chemistry that we are making without looking closely at this together, across political divides, with open eyes and open hearts.

May 12, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Stop catering to absurd new stories

On the morning of April 25, CNN announced that a devastating earthquake had occurred in Nepal. At the time, there were only a 100 known deaths, but at a magnitude of 7.8 the impending doom was evident. What was even more astounding was that this story only received a couple of minutes' coverage. The main story, which was exploited for the next 10 minutes, was the Bruce Jenner interview with Diane Sawyer that had aired the previous night.

May 12, 2015
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei took issues with key points on the framework of a nuclear deal including sanction relief and inspector access. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: Iran’s human rights record

Hanging is a particularly gruesome method of dispatching the wicked and the addicted, largely abandoned by the civilized world, though it's true that electric chairs, gas chambers, poisoned hypodermic needles and even firing squads are hardly more civilized.

May 11, 2015
A drone carrying the flag of South Vietnam flies above during a commemoration for the 40th anniversary of the fall of Saigon, at Sid Goldstein Freedom Park in Westminster, Calif., on Thursday, April 30, 2015. (Matt Masin/The Orange County Register via AP) MAGS OUT; LOS ANGELES TIMES OUT; MANDATORY CREDIT

EDITORIAL: Vietnam War myth survives in Pentagon commemoration

The Pentagon is out to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the end of the war in Vietnam, which invites new recriminations and the false story of what happened in Vietnam. There's already a bitter struggle over what to "celebrate" and how to do it.

May 11, 2015

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Taiwan should be party to TPP

There are many good reasons for President Obama to scold Democrats on their trade-pact stance, but the president has yet to convince lawmakers that a regional free-trade agreement without Taiwan would be unthinkable ("Liberal opposition mounts to free-trade deal," 2, May 8). If this regional system is going to cover all 50-plus countries around the Pacific Rim, the absence of Taiwan will render the regional integration disadvantageous to American interests.

May 11, 2015