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ILLUSTRATION This image released by Netflix shows Kevin Spacey as U.S. Congressman Frank Underwood in a scene from the Netflix original series, "House of Cards." Spacey was nominated for an Emmy Award for best actor in a drama series on, Thursday July 18, 2013. (AP Photo/Netflix, Melinda Sue Gordon) ** FILE **

EDITORIAL: Harry Reid’s corrupt Senate house of cards

In the popular Netflix series "House of Cards," Kevin Spacey plays politician Frank Underwood as a manipulative power broker who will say and do anything to climb the ladder of power in Washington. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is the real life Frank Underwood, without the roguish charm and mischievous evil of the fictional pol.

March 6, 2014

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Turkey not committed to Cyprus peace

Turkey's 1974 invasion of the Republic of Cyprus occurred in two phases. The first of these, on July 20, involved the illegal use of U.S.-supplied arms and equipment in violation of the U.S. Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, the U.N. Charter, the NATO treaty and customary international law.

March 6, 2014
Debo Adegbile, then an attorney with the Legal Defense and Educational Fund of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People speaks outside the Supreme Court in Washington on April 29, 2009. Adegbile, President Barack Obama’s choice to head the Justice Department’s civil rights division has failed a Senate test vote and his confirmation is in jeopardy. (Associated Press) **FILE**

EDITORIAL: Senate rejects Adegbile for Justice post

President Obama calls the Senate's rejection of his nominee to head the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division a "travesty." It's a puzzle that he nominated Debo P. Adegbile in the first place. Here was a nomination doomed from the beginning.

March 5, 2014

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Hit Putin where it hurts over Ukraine

Russian President Vladimir Putin has made himself an international lawbreaker by violating the treaty he signed guaranteeing Ukrainian sovereignty, yet neither the United States nor NATO is willing to put the "military option" on the table.

March 5, 2014
Copies of President Barack Obama’s proposed budget for fiscal 2015 are set out for distribution by the Senate Budget Committee, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 4, 2014. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

EDITORIAL: Obama budget dead on arrival

House Speaker John A. Boehner's got a problem. With great fanfare, President Obama delivered his fiscal 2015 budget to Congress on Tuesday, but "global warming" has the grounds around the Capitol frozen as hard as concrete. Mr. Boehner and the House have nowhere to bury the president's budget.

March 4, 2014
Senate Majority Leader Sen. Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat, said he wants to give President Obama a free hand to conduct diplomacy with Iran and doesn't want to see Congress vote on the issue. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: Democrats flee Obamacare before midterm elections

President Obama is reluctantly delivering on his campaign promise to show a little transparency in his administration. The Hill, a Capitol Hill political daily, reported Tuesday that the White House is about to announce still another postponement in implementing Obamacare.

March 4, 2014

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: What happened to the Democratic Party?

In order to survive and thrive, every society must have some standards of moral conduct. Before its founding and throughout its history, this country has used the Ten Commandments to guide its judgments, and doing so has made us the envy of the world.

March 4, 2014