http://www.realclearpolitics.com/ en Copyright 2008 Mon, 13 Oct 2008 07:15:54 -0500 The World Bank should not be in charge of solving the global food crisis.This weekend in Washington, the World Bank was making a grab to become the key agency on this issue, entrusted with more power _ and more taxpayer funds.Set up more than 60 years ago to lend money to poorer nations, the World Bank hosted officials from all over the globe at http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/tms/politics/2008/Oct/13/world_bank_should_not_be_solving_food_crisis.html http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/tms/politics/2008/Oct/13/world_bank_should_not_be_solving_food_crisis.html Robin Broad And John Cavanagh Tribune Media Services Mon, 13 Oct 2008 07:15:48 -0500 The authorities say they fear a new rebel group has been formed that may take over from the Lord's Resistance Army, LRA, which ended a 20-year war in the northern Uganda just two years ago.The LRA left the region in 2006 when peace talks began, and is now based in the remote north-eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where it has conducted raids http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/tms/politics/2008/Oct/13/new_rebel_group_pursued_in_uganda.html http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/tms/politics/2008/Oct/13/new_rebel_group_pursued_in_uganda.html Bill Oketch Tribune Media Services Mon, 13 Oct 2008 07:15:43 -0500 Should I ever be fortunate enough to be bailed out from the rigors of my workaday life, look for me at St. Regis Monarch Beach.The resort, on a Pacific Ocean bluff midway between Los Angeles and San Diego, made news last week as the site of a weeklong meeting that a subsidiary of the American International Group Inc. hosted for about 100 of its http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/tms/politics/2008/Oct/13/subsidized_firms_must_cut_back_on_the_perks.html http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/tms/politics/2008/Oct/13/subsidized_firms_must_cut_back_on_the_perks.html Barbara Shelly Tribune Media Services Mon, 13 Oct 2008 07:15:38 -0500 The following editorial appeared in the Kansas City Star on Friday, Oct. 10:___The severity of the financial crisis calls for extraordinary measures, and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson offers the promise that the federal government will "use all resources at its disposal to make our financial system stronger."Let's hope so. It's important for http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/tms/politics/2008/Oct/13/corporate_excess__no_more_business_as_usual.html http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/tms/politics/2008/Oct/13/corporate_excess__no_more_business_as_usual.html Tribune Media Services Mon, 13 Oct 2008 07:15:33 -0500 The following editorial appeared in the Chicago Tribune on Friday, Oct. 10:___Twelve years after "101 Dalmatians" unleashed a spotted plague on an unsuspecting public, the folks at Disney have stepped in it again. "Beverly Hills Chihuahua" debuted at No. 1 last weekend, spiking the demand for big-eared, bug-eyed, pocket-size dogs.Animal welfare http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/tms/politics/2008/Oct/13/1_000_001_chihuahuas.html http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/tms/politics/2008/Oct/13/1_000_001_chihuahuas.html Tribune Media Services Mon, 13 Oct 2008 07:15:27 -0500 On Monday, Barack Obama led John McCain by 6 points in the Real Clear Politics poll average. The average isn't a perfect indicator of the state of the race, but it does show trends, and this was Obama's largest lead since the beginning of September.It was close to the largest lead he's held in the race, which was a 7.5-percent margin in late http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/tms/politics/2008/Oct/13/mccain_ticket_has_one_chance_left.html http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/tms/politics/2008/Oct/13/mccain_ticket_has_one_chance_left.html Jonathan V. Last Tribune Media Services Mon, 13 Oct 2008 07:15:22 -0500 The following editorial appeared in the Dallas Morning News on Friday, Oct. 10:___Rarely has the detention of individuals at Guantanamo Bay seemed as blatantly unconstitutional as in the case of 17 Chinese Uighur Muslims held there since 2002. A federal judge this week correctly ruled that their indefinite detention is unjustified and http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/tms/politics/2008/Oct/13/administration_s_guantanamo_defeat.html http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/tms/politics/2008/Oct/13/administration_s_guantanamo_defeat.html Tribune Media Services Mon, 13 Oct 2008 07:15:17 -0500 Turn on the TV news when John McCain is picking up undecided voters by invoking Barack Obama's relationship with unrepentant American terrorist William Ayers and, invariably, some liberal talking head will sniff in disgust and say Ayers is no big deal where Obama comes from.Unfortunately, that's true. Ayers is a terrorist. But this is http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/tms/politics/2008/Oct/12/daley__and_obama__shrug_off_ayers_connection.html http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/tms/politics/2008/Oct/12/daley__and_obama__shrug_off_ayers_connection.html John Kass Tribune Media Services Sun, 12 Oct 2008 14:15:51 -0500 I got my hair cut this week, and we did not talk about "American Idol" or new diets or even Paul Newman. We talked about John McCain and Barack Obama, Sarah Palin and Joe Biden.This campaign is different. It isn't just a campaign with opposing sides, like 2004 and 2000 and 1996. Something profound is happening. It's as if a slow-building fire got http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/tms/politics/2008/Oct/10/something_profound_is_happening.html http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/tms/politics/2008/Oct/10/something_profound_is_happening.html Mary Newsom Tribune Media Services Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:45:44 -0500 The following editorial appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer on Thursday, Oct. 9:___The Wall Street executives who tried to explain themselves to Congress this week showed a galling lack of personal accountability and major chutzpah.One by one, disgraced CEOs such as Richard Fuld of Lehman Brothers and Robert Willumstad of AIG pointed the blame http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/tms/politics/2008/Oct/10/wall_street_executives__see_the_titans_run.html http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/tms/politics/2008/Oct/10/wall_street_executives__see_the_titans_run.html Tribune Media Services Fri, 10 Oct 2008 07:15:57 -0500 The following editorial appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer on Thursday, Oct. 9:___Congratulations to the three scientists awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for their work in discovering viruses behind two deadly illnesses: cervical cancer and AIDS.Harald zur Hausen, 72, a German virologist who studied for several years in the late 1960s at http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/tms/politics/2008/Oct/10/nobel_winners__doing_battle_against_two_killers.html http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/tms/politics/2008/Oct/10/nobel_winners__doing_battle_against_two_killers.html Tribune Media Services Fri, 10 Oct 2008 07:15:52 -0500 Which world leader is on record musing about "a world without America" _ a goal he calls "attainable"? Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.Until recently, it was possible to believe that whatever Ahmadinejad's intentions, Iran was a long way from acquiring the capabilities it needs to achieve its goals. But a blue-ribbon commission has reported http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/tms/politics/2008/Oct/10/iran_envisions___a_world_without_america_.html http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/tms/politics/2008/Oct/10/iran_envisions___a_world_without_america_.html Clifford D. May And James Jay Carafano Tribune Media Services Fri, 10 Oct 2008 07:15:47 -0500 There was a surreal quality to the presidential debate Tuesday night that was very discouraging. Even as both candidates went about their scripted, well-rehearsed routines, they all but ignored the 800-pound gorilla stalking around the room: the global financial meltdown.Oh, sure, both John McCain and Barack Obama gave a grudging acknowledgment to http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/tms/politics/2008/Oct/10/what_about_the_economy_obama__mccain_.html http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/tms/politics/2008/Oct/10/what_about_the_economy_obama__mccain_.html James Klurfeld Tribune Media Services Fri, 10 Oct 2008 07:15:42 -0500 It seems only yesterday we heard the loud warnings that America's finest days lay behind it, its days as the reigning world economic power fast slipping away. And now?Clearly, times have turned worse than almost anyone expected. No one on Wall Street, in Washington or along the politicians' current favorite address, Main Street, could find reasons http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/tms/politics/2008/Oct/10/resilient_america_struggles.html http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/tms/politics/2008/Oct/10/resilient_america_struggles.html Frida Ghitis Tribune Media Services Fri, 10 Oct 2008 07:15:36 -0500 BAGHDAD _ The city was eerily quiet on Saturday. There were no reported terrorist attacks. Zero. Earlier this year, it wasn't unusual to see several hundred a day.But on Saturday, from atop the Memorial to the Unknown Soldier _ built by Saddam Hussein during the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s _ all seemed well. There was smoke in the distance, but http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/tms/politics/2008/Oct/10/despite_iraq_successes__u_s__has_more_to_do.html http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/tms/politics/2008/Oct/10/despite_iraq_successes__u_s__has_more_to_do.html Kevin Ferris Tribune Media Services Fri, 10 Oct 2008 07:15:31 -0500 The following editorial appeared in the Dallas Morning News on Thursday, Oct. 9:___President Bush has become America's No. 1 whipping boy. Angry about the bailout? Blame Bush. Economy's in the toilet? Blame Bush. Upset about Iraq? Blame Bush.That focus is to be expected from Democrats, eager for victory on Nov. 4. But what's surprising is the http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/tms/politics/2008/Oct/10/nov__4_is_not_anti_bush_referendum.html http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/tms/politics/2008/Oct/10/nov__4_is_not_anti_bush_referendum.html Tribune Media Services Fri, 10 Oct 2008 07:15:26 -0500 SAN FRANCISCO _ What does one do when the excitement of a presidential race dies down, when no surprising, new or inspiring perspectives seem to emerge, when larger-than-life issues such as economic turmoil threaten to restrict the prospects of change _ in short, when campaign fatigue sets in?Certainly, that is not the case, many of my readers http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/tms/politics/2008/Oct/10/some_issues_for_the_candidates_to_address.html http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/tms/politics/2008/Oct/10/some_issues_for_the_candidates_to_address.html John C. Bersia Tribune Media Services Fri, 10 Oct 2008 07:15:21 -0500 The following editorial appeared in the Chicago Tribune on Thursday, Oct. 9:___Here's the tab: $139,375.30 for rooms. $147, 301.71 for "banquets." $1,488 for the Vogue Salon, which features manicures, pedicures and hairstyling. $6,939.09 on golf. $2,949 for tips. $5,016.32 at the Stonehill Tavern. $3,064.71 for in-room dining and the lobby lounge. http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/tms/politics/2008/Oct/10/aig__party_on_.html http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/tms/politics/2008/Oct/10/aig__party_on_.html Tribune Media Services Fri, 10 Oct 2008 07:15:16 -0500 President Bush is spending much of his time these days consulting with European leaders on how to solve the global financial crisis. But he should get some advice from Mexico and other Latin American countries that bounced back from economic disasters.Well-placed international economists say the United States could learn some lessons from Mexico's http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/tms/politics/2008/Oct/09/hello__mexico__we_need_advice.html http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/tms/politics/2008/Oct/09/hello__mexico__we_need_advice.html Andres Oppenheimer Tribune Media Services Thu, 09 Oct 2008 09:45:15 -0500 In their second debate, Barack Obama was organized, focused and strategic. John McCain was often rambling, imprecise and tactical.Just like their campaigns.That contrast was most notable when they were asked to prioritize health care, energy and entitlement reform."I think you can work on all three at once," McCain told moderator Tom Brokaw. "We http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/tms/politics/2008/Oct/09/obama_wins_debate_by_mirroring_campaign.html http://www.realclearpolitics.com/news/tms/politics/2008/Oct/09/obama_wins_debate_by_mirroring_campaign.html Carl P. Leubsdorf Tribune Media Services Thu, 09 Oct 2008 09:45:10 -0500