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- Letters to the editor
- ROBERT J. SAMUELSON NEWSWEEK
The problem isn't really speculators
Tired of high gasoline prices and rising foods costs? Well, here's a solution. Let's shoot the speculators. A chorus of politicians, including John McCain and Barack Obama, blames these financial slimeballs for piling into commodities markets and pushing prices to artificial and unconscionable levels.
- ROBERT NOVAK
Scalia saves Obama on gun rights
After months of claiming insufficient information to express an opinion on the District of Columbia gun law, Barack Obama noted with apparent approval Thursday that the Supreme Court ruled the 32-year ban on handguns “went too far.” But what would he have said had the high court's 5-4 majority gone the other way and affirmed the law? Obama's strategists can only thank swing Justice Anthony Kennedy for enabling Justice Antonin Scalia's majority opinion to take the Democratic presidential candidate off the hook.
- Let my people go, AIDS profiteers
KAMPALA, Uganda –The President's Emergency Plan for HIV-AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR, has been mired in the Senate for months. Last week finally brought signs that a vote, and passage, could be near. The program would cost $50 billion – that's $165 from each American to fight AIDS. But will the money allocated for AIDS stop the spread of the virus in sub-Saharan Africa, where 76 percent of the world's HIV-AIDS deaths occurred last year?
- E.J. DIONNE JR. THE WASHINGTON POST
A trump card for conservatives?
If the long conservative era that began with Ronald Reagan's election is over, will the judges appointed during the right's ascendancy be able to block, frustrate and undermine the efforts of a new progressive majority?
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