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Here are letters to the editor from Daily News editions of Dec. 15, 2009:Letter of the Day: Whom do we punish?Editor, Naples Daily News.In the last few days there has been a lot of mail concerning the kicking incident in one of our schools.Many refer to the inadequacy of the punishment. But who should be punished?To punish the children is like putting a Band-Aid on a cancerous growth.These kids ...
The black mesh benches in the terminal of Dutchess County Airport are eerily empty these days: the big hall's silence broken by an occasional student arriving to be tutored or by an accountant, deputy sheriff or security technician heading to offices on site.
Associated Press - December 12, 2009 6:24 PM ET HAMMOND, Ind. (AP) - A former Purdue University graduate student convicted of threatening to kill President George W.
Margaret Chase Smith was the first politician of any consequence I ever met and interviewed. This was in 1956 or '57 and what brought her to Binghamton, I can't recall. It certainly wasn't to be interviewed by a rookie reporter for a morning paper that no longer exists.
HAMMOND -- A former Purdue University graduate student was sentenced Friday to 57 months in prison for making Internet threats directed toward the former presidential administration.
Dec. 11: A Hardball panel debates whether President Barack Obama has left some of his liberal ideologies behind during his first year as president. (Hardball)
So our cerebral president has decided that the way out of Afghanistan is to plunge in further: 30,000 more U.S. soldiers, maybe 7,000 NATO troops, more bombs, more Predator missile strikes in the border regions of Pakistan and an 18-month timetable for commencing withdrawal. Or something.
The al-Qaida extremist killed Tuesday by a U.S. drone strike in northern Pakistan was the group's director of external operations, a senior U.S. counterterrorism official told NBC News on Friday.
Norway's venerable Nobel Foundation, responding to what it calls "an international epidemic of incivility, disrespect, and, for sure, stinko behavior" today announced it was...
Don't take the name of one of the greatest musicals of all time and use it for a Tiger Woods headline ("Mamma Mia!" Dec. 9). ABBA's talents earned them a place in history with "Mamma Mia," and your using it for the sick Tiger is disgraceful and an insult.
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Orlando Congressman Alan Grayson is stirring up controversy again after a television interview. On Hardball with Chris Matthews Wednesday night, Grayson took aim at former Vice President Dick Cheney once again.
There’s a common perception that Vice President Joe Biden lost the administration’s de
What's Your Reaction? Dick Cheney appeared on Fox News Tuesday night and referred to President Obama as "more radical" than the traditional Democratic president . But according to the footage Conan O'Brien ran last night, Cheney had even more to say about the "evil" Obama, implicating him in the unlikeliest of crimes.
Motive doesn't matter
In 2006, Ron Suskind published ``The One Percent Doctrine,'' a book about the U.S. war on terrorists after 9/11.
Dec. 10 (Bloomberg) -- No more calls. We have a winner. All hail General Stanley McChrystal , who has won his war for 30,000 more troops to be deployed to a country whose government is so rotten and corrupt many of its citizens prefer the Taliban.
TruthOut - By Jason Leopold - Dec. 12 (News Report) - Officials ...
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TruthOut - By Yana Kunichoff - Nov. 19 (News Report) - Suicides ...
