Provides the latest RSS feeds for US Editorials. For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Hawaii Telegraph.com http://www.hawaiitelegraph.com/index.php/ct/10/id/09c0947bd4eaa867/ en-us Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:59:06 -0500 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:59:06 -0500 30 Annapolis . Her argument is that allowing these situations to drag out for months while elected officials are under a legal cloud robs their constituents of effective representation. She has 85 ... http://story.hawaiitelegraph.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203268070/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 06:02:33 -0500 Baltimore Sun http://story.hawaiitelegraph.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203268070/ The public-policy group SPUR has issued an eye-opening report about the vulnerability of San Francisco's housing stock to a major earthquake. It projected that nearly a quarter of the ... http://story.hawaiitelegraph.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203266008/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 04:16:49 -0500 San Francisco Chronicle http://story.hawaiitelegraph.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203266008/ If you celebrated Martin Luther King Jr. Day by watching the "I Have a Dream" speech on YouTube, you broke the law. Or at least that's what the Martin Luther King Jr. estate contends. ... http://story.hawaiitelegraph.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203266009/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 04:16:43 -0500 San Francisco Chronicle http://story.hawaiitelegraph.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203266009/ Just when you thought federal lawmakers were incapable of any action that might slow their plummeting public approval ratings, they come together to support a ban on insider trading by members of ... http://story.hawaiitelegraph.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203266007/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 04:08:05 -0500 Denver Post http://story.hawaiitelegraph.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203266007/ Imperial regimes can crack when they are driven out of their major foreign outposts. The fall of the Berlin Wall did not only signal the liberation of Eastern Europe from Moscow. It prefigured ... http://story.hawaiitelegraph.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203264258/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:52:15 -0500 Daily Herald http://story.hawaiitelegraph.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203264258/ On behalf of the Utah Valley Christmas Box Club, I would like to take the opportunity to express my sincerest thanks and appreciation to all of the caring individuals, communities, church groups, ... http://story.hawaiitelegraph.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203264259/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:52:12 -0500 Daily Herald http://story.hawaiitelegraph.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203264259/ Proposed new legislation affecting union members in Michigan is a combination of reasonable rules protecting their rights and unnecessary overreach that lawmakers probably should bypass. Union ... http://story.hawaiitelegraph.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203264262/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:46:46 -0500 The Detroit News http://story.hawaiitelegraph.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203264262/ After spending the last two decades submerged in debt and controversies over corruption, our City of Friendship is finally making a fresh start. Now it is up to our elected officials to continue on ... http://story.hawaiitelegraph.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203264261/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:46:42 -0500 The Detroit News http://story.hawaiitelegraph.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203264261/ Fountain Hills, Ariz. -- Dina Galassini does not seemto pose a threat to Arizona's civic integrity. But the government of this desert community believes you cannot be too careful. And state law ... http://story.hawaiitelegraph.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203264260/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:46:40 -0500 The Detroit News http://story.hawaiitelegraph.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203264260/ Donald Trump greets Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney after announcing his endorsement of Romney. When Mitt Romney stated that he is "not concerned about the very poor," this ... http://story.hawaiitelegraph.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203264254/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:46:28 -0500 Deseret News http://story.hawaiitelegraph.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203264254/ I have noticed recently that the tea party group is going to spend a lot of money to try and unseat and defeat Sen. Orrin Hatch for re-election. I support many of the things that the tea party ... http://story.hawaiitelegraph.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203264256/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:46:23 -0500 Deseret News http://story.hawaiitelegraph.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203264256/ With the Florida primary behind us, pundits are now pouring through its exit polls to come up with numbers to tell us where Mitt Romney's strengths and weaknesses lie. Pollsters are doing the ... http://story.hawaiitelegraph.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203264257/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:46:22 -0500 Deseret News http://story.hawaiitelegraph.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203264257/ M ichael Graham, tell the 8-year-old who just asked her mother for a bulletproof vest that gun violence is going down ("Mayors wide of mark," Feb. 3). Tell grieving mother Nicole Martin, ... http://story.hawaiitelegraph.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203264253/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:19:09 -0500 Boston Herald http://story.hawaiitelegraph.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203264253/ For more than two years, people in Utah and Washington have followed the saga of Susan Powell's disappearance, hoping for some good news. It never came. Now we have seen the most horrific and ... http://story.hawaiitelegraph.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203262862/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:56:41 -0500 Deseret News http://story.hawaiitelegraph.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203262862/ Letters to the Editor from the weekly print edition of February 6, 2012: One reader says reducing prison populations won't come from releasing criminals, but rehabilitating them and preventing ... http://story.hawaiitelegraph.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203262856/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:47:31 -0500 Christian Science Monitor http://story.hawaiitelegraph.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203262856/ If you celebrated Martin Luther King Jr. Day by watching the "I Have a Dream" speech on YouTube, you broke the law. Or at least that's what the Martin Luther King Jr. estate contends. ... http://story.hawaiitelegraph.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203262858/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:38:51 -0500 San Francisco Chronicle http://story.hawaiitelegraph.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203262858/ I first met Kevin White when he initially ran for mayor and I was living in the projects in Charlestown ("Remembering Kevin White," Feb. 2). His wife Kathryn coincidentally was also from ... http://story.hawaiitelegraph.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203262859/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:31:36 -0500 Boston Herald http://story.hawaiitelegraph.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203262859/ W hile much of the focus is on the fight for the Republican presidential nomination, there are some developing trends that are likely to have the man already in the White House smiling. Only 29 ... http://story.hawaiitelegraph.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203262860/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:31:09 -0500 Boston Herald http://story.hawaiitelegraph.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203262860/ I f we didn’t have enough to worry about on the subway from catching the flu to dealing with a likely fare hike, along come amateur paparazzi to deal with. A company of pests promises to ... http://story.hawaiitelegraph.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203262861/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:30:55 -0500 Boston Herald http://story.hawaiitelegraph.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203262861/ Synopsis: Should we have a casino in Hawai'i? It could be scary. Welina e na hoa puni heluhelu. Ma ka Hoku Avalataisa o ka la 20 o Ianuali, ua ho'ike 'ia iho nei ka malama 'ia ... http://story.hawaiitelegraph.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203261685/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 23:35:17 -0500 Star Advertiser http://story.hawaiitelegraph.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203261685/ Meet Lew Fidler of Brooklyn, whose 10 years on the City Council have apparently entitled him to, well, a grand sense of entitlement. As The Post’s Rich Calder reported last week, ... http://story.hawaiitelegraph.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203261684/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 23:31:51 -0500 New York Post http://story.hawaiitelegraph.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203261684/ Chinese residents in the coast village of Wukan rebelled last year and won the right to a free election. The rest of China watches to see if they, too, can demand ... http://story.hawaiitelegraph.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203260490/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:35:58 -0500 Christian Science Monitor http://story.hawaiitelegraph.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203260490/ This was for us. And that was a new thing, so we gathered faithfully to the television as that hardworking cartoon engine chugged across the screen, rainbow smoke pouring from its stack, the ... http://story.hawaiitelegraph.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203259033/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 19:55:56 -0500 The Seattle Times http://story.hawaiitelegraph.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203259033/ David Osmek's commentary ("Stop the light-rail obsession," Feb. 2) was misleading, because he conveniently ignored the staggering costs of business as usual -- which seems to be his ... http://story.hawaiitelegraph.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203257557/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:38:13 -0500 Star Tribune http://story.hawaiitelegraph.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203257557/ The number of illegal immigrants in the United States has dropped notably during the Obama administration -- from a high of 11.9 million in 2007 to 11.2 million in 2010. That fact may be lost on ... http://story.hawaiitelegraph.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203257556/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:38:09 -0500 Star Tribune http://story.hawaiitelegraph.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203257556/ LOS ANGELES The worst day of Sugar Bear's 55 years was one of the days -- there have been many of them -- when he got out of prison. In the early 1990s, in a prison where persons whose ... http://story.hawaiitelegraph.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203257558/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:38:04 -0500 Star Tribune http://story.hawaiitelegraph.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203257558/ FactCheck.org , which tracks accuracy in political messaging, found that the "avalanche of negativity" in recent Florida ads also contained a fair share of distortions and outright lies. ... http://story.hawaiitelegraph.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203257559/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:37:59 -0500 Star Tribune http://story.hawaiitelegraph.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203257559/ Today, virtually all American women use contraception at some point in their lives. And we have a large body of medical evidence showing it has significant benefits for their health, as well as the ... http://story.hawaiitelegraph.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203259034/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:32:30 -0500 USA Today http://story.hawaiitelegraph.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203259034/ Yet in drawing up the rules that will govern health care reform, the Obama administration didn't just cross that line. It galloped over it, requiring employers affiliated with the Catholic Church to ... http://story.hawaiitelegraph.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203259035/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:28:17 -0500 USA Today http://story.hawaiitelegraph.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203259035/ "I think it's very harmful to Republicans because instead of the candidates presenting their views and their policies and their proposals, it's all gotcha," harrumphed Sen. John McCain, no primary ... http://story.hawaiitelegraph.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203257562/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:55:40 -0500 USA Today http://story.hawaiitelegraph.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203257562/ As a retired economics professor, I have seldom heard of anyone who begrudges self-made individuals. However, what no rational person can or should buy is privilege. Medved's statement that we ... http://story.hawaiitelegraph.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203257560/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:51:13 -0500 USA Today http://story.hawaiitelegraph.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203257560/ On ReligionFaith. Religion. Spirituality. ... http://story.hawaiitelegraph.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203257561/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:49:09 -0500 USA Today http://story.hawaiitelegraph.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203257561/ We all agree that smoking isn't healthy, but neither is excessive drinking of alcohol or overeating. Does opposing view writer Paul Terpeluk, Cleveland Clinic's medical director of Employee Health ... http://story.hawaiitelegraph.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203257546/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:45:33 -0500 USA Today http://story.hawaiitelegraph.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203257546/ In protest of the Palestinian statehood bid at the UN, Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen froze $192 million in funding for USAID programs, including a Palestinian version of 'Sesame Street.' The ... http://story.hawaiitelegraph.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203255434/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 15:04:04 -0500 Christian Science Monitor http://story.hawaiitelegraph.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203255434/ Romney was a one-term governor, but he is surely the 24-carat chief executive officer. There are huge differences in skills required to be a successful CEO and a president of the United States. ... http://story.hawaiitelegraph.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203255433/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 15:03:59 -0500 Christian Science Monitor http://story.hawaiitelegraph.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203255433/ First-time wonders deserve our awe and applause. But almost every good thing in life -- from careers to ideas, products to poetry -- is more reinvention than ... http://story.hawaiitelegraph.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203254263/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:27:24 -0500 Christian Science Monitor http://story.hawaiitelegraph.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203254263/ New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning warms up before the NFC championship game against the San Francisco 49ers last month in the City by the Bay. Oddsmakers have their money on Manning and his ... http://story.hawaiitelegraph.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203251629/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 10:33:33 -0500 NPR http://story.hawaiitelegraph.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203251629/ 1. UCSF scientists declare war on sugar in food 2. Peyton Manning as 49er makes sense, but not enough 3. Morford: Please do not eat this 4. North Bay girl died of 'date rape' drug ... http://story.hawaiitelegraph.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203247599/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 04:59:02 -0500 San Francisco Chronicle http://story.hawaiitelegraph.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203247599/ It says something about the brazen attitude of American politicians that Congress enacted a measure to create a program that was impossible to implement - and named it the CLASS Act. CLASS stands ... http://story.hawaiitelegraph.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203247600/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 04:58:56 -0500 San Francisco Chronicle http://story.hawaiitelegraph.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203247600/ France can't seem to decide how quickly it will withdraw its troops from Afghanistan after a rogue Afghan soldier opened fire on unarmed French soldiers, killing four and wounding 15. Over the ... http://story.hawaiitelegraph.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203247601/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 04:58:49 -0500 San Francisco Chronicle http://story.hawaiitelegraph.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203247601/ A legal action filed in 4th District Court by a group of Cedar Hills residents against their city is one of the more unusual cases we've seen in awhile. They think the city has been hiding ... http://story.hawaiitelegraph.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203246120/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:31:09 -0500 Daily Herald http://story.hawaiitelegraph.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203246120/ – Oct. 7, 2011 But veiled contempt for Mormonism is becoming too regular of a feature on the opinion pages of the Times which published an incomprehensible screed against the faith by scholar ... http://story.hawaiitelegraph.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203246110/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:25:33 -0500 Deseret News http://story.hawaiitelegraph.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203246110/ WASHINGTON — Imperial regimes can crack when they are driven out of their major foreign outposts. The fall of the Berlin Wall did not just signal the liberation of Eastern Europe from Moscow. ... http://story.hawaiitelegraph.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203246112/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:25:29 -0500 Deseret News http://story.hawaiitelegraph.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203246112/ – Feb. 8, 2011 Two powerful forces are pushing crude oil prices up. First, the administration is restricting production of oil through its energy policy, in which it obstructs efforts to ... http://story.hawaiitelegraph.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203246115/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:25:14 -0500 Deseret News http://story.hawaiitelegraph.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203246115/ The current Republican debates have become the latest episode of "Presidential Apprentice, Debating With the Candidates," or "Survivor of D.C." We wait to see who has the most ... http://story.hawaiitelegraph.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203246117/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:25:06 -0500 Deseret News http://story.hawaiitelegraph.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203246117/ For the first time in history, Utah has candidates running in four different congressional districts. Most of the interest is in the wide-open contests for the GOP nominations in the 2nd and 4th ... http://story.hawaiitelegraph.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203246118/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:24:59 -0500 Deseret News http://story.hawaiitelegraph.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203246118/ GREEN BAY, Wis. — Gasoline prices rose sharply in 2008 and again in 2011, largely as a consequence of rising global demand and limited supply. People's reactions were mixed. Some called ... http://story.hawaiitelegraph.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203246119/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:24:55 -0500 Deseret News http://story.hawaiitelegraph.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203246119/ CALIFORNIA labor unions are bracing for a fight this fall. They face a one-two punch, a right-left combination of sorts. From the right comes a November state ballot initiative backed by Republicans ... http://story.hawaiitelegraph.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203246109/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 02:59:30 -0500 Daily News http://story.hawaiitelegraph.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203246109/ Everybody agrees that there's something wrong when the horrific murder of a 12-year-old black girl in Detroit gets far less newspaper ink and television footage than the slaying of a white ... http://story.hawaiitelegraph.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203244792/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 01:34:25 -0500 The Detroit News http://story.hawaiitelegraph.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203244792/ The rap against Mitt Romney is that the only thing conservative about him is his business suit. And the more he yaps off the cuff, the more he reinforces that impression. At the rate he's ... http://story.hawaiitelegraph.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203244793/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 01:34:21 -0500 The Detroit News http://story.hawaiitelegraph.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203244793/ A rgentina once again is harassing the British-ruled Falkland Islands 500 miles off its southern coast, islands Argentine soldiers seized in 1982 and from which the British ejected them in a ... http://story.hawaiitelegraph.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203244789/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 01:08:54 -0500 Boston Herald http://story.hawaiitelegraph.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203244789/ I t’s not just campaign strategy, but democracy itself, that is being tested this year across the country. As the electoral cycle moves forward, who will be voting and with what result? ... http://story.hawaiitelegraph.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203244790/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 01:08:46 -0500 Boston Herald http://story.hawaiitelegraph.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203244790/ W ASHINGTON - Imperial regimes can crack when they are driven out of their major foreign outposts. The fall of the Berlin Wall did not just signal the liberation of Eastern Europe from Moscow. It ... http://story.hawaiitelegraph.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203244791/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 01:08:41 -0500 Boston Herald http://story.hawaiitelegraph.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203244791/