Provides the latest RSS feeds for General Editorials. For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Iran Herald.com http://www.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/10/id/45d771c7290844e9/ en-us Tue, 07 Feb 2012 08:14:15 -0500 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 08:14:15 -0500 30 Obama's re-election than Chrysler's "It's Halftime in America" Super Bowl spot featuring Clint Eastwood. There is every reason to believe that the pro-Obama theme was ... http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203296238/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 04:01:43 -0500 San Francisco Chronicle http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203296238/ I have no sympathy for Robert Jones and others who are fighting red-light cameras ("Steep fines spur anger at cameras," Feb. 5). As a pedestrian, I must be constantly vigilant when ... http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203296240/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 04:01:32 -0500 San Francisco Chronicle http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203296240/ Oakland police form a perimiter on Broadway and 23rd and begin making arrests of protesters with Occupy Oakland as they continued their march into the evening through the streets of downtown in ... http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203296241/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 04:01:24 -0500 San Francisco Chronicle http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203296241/ Allegheny County fire marshals will spend part of today attempting to figure out what started the fire that destroyed the popular North Versailles restaurant, the Winchester Room. North Versailles ... http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203299668/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 03:32:08 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203299668/ After riding among a caravan of bright blue bikes up Oakland's O'Hara Street Thursday, University of Pittsburgh senior Micah Toll said he wasn't surprised by the attention from ... http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203299669/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 03:32:07 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203299669/ The sharks were circling the Duquesne Club Thursday evening for the 24th annual Cummerbund Society Pool Tournament. The black-tie event raises money for Magee Womens Hospital's Neo-natal Care ... http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203299667/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 03:32:06 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203299667/ Pittsburgh, which owes its existence to its beginnings as a frontier garrison town, has always had a close, historic relationship with the military. In great numbers, men and women from Western ... http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203299666/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 03:32:05 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203299666/ The dangers of lead-based paint have been well-established for more than 30 years. The knowledge that even low-level exposures to lead can affect mental capacity led the United States to ban the ... http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203299665/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 03:32:05 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203299665/ All he is saying is give peace a chance. No, not John Lennon -- Fredrik Heffermehl, a Norwegian jurist and critic of the Nobel Peace Prize selection process. It could mean trouble for the committee, ... http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203299664/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 03:32:04 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203299664/ When a co-worker brought "Letter from a Freedman to His Old Master" to my attention last week, I was immediately intrigued. The letter purports to be from Jourdon Anderson, a runaway ... http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203299670/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 03:32:02 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203299670/ By Amir Mir ISLAMABAD - Pakistan has turned down a demand by United States Defense Secretary Leon Panetta to release a Pakistani physician who faces treason charges for helping the Central ... http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203299654/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 03:20:48 -0500 Asia Times http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203299654/ PALO ALTO, California - United States President Barack Obama has contradicted both his defense secretary and head of intelligence by laying a small though significant speed bump ahead of the ... http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203299655/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 03:20:46 -0500 Asia Times http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203299655/ By Brian M Downing The United States has shifted its attention away from Iraq, Afghanistan and other parts of the world and firmly fixed it on Iran. Along with this has come a buildup of naval, ... http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203299657/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 03:20:45 -0500 Asia Times http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203299657/ By Samer Araabi WASHINGTON - Following a failed bid to pass a United Nations Security Council resolution calling for regime change in Syria, Washington is considering other means to influence ... http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203299656/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 03:20:43 -0500 Asia Times http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203299656/ By Mathieu Duchatel and Bates Gill The dramatic rise in overseas travel and expatriate work by Chinese was punctuated by the recent kidnappings of Chinese workers in Sudan and Egypt. ... http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203299658/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 03:20:42 -0500 Asia Times http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203299658/ Beijing finds vulnerable ally in Berlin By Jian Junbo LONDON - German Chancellor Angela Merkel's two-day visit to China last week came amid significant advances in cooperation, despite ... http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203299660/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 03:20:41 -0500 Asia Times http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203299660/ Kicking down the world's door By Tom Engelhardt Make no mistake: we're entering a new world of military planning. Admittedly, the latest proposed Pentagon budget manages to preserve ... http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203299659/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 03:20:39 -0500 Asia Times http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203299659/ By Vladimir Socor Confidence in the viability of the Nabucco gas pipeline project - at least in its version envisaged from 2004 to 2011 - seems to be fading all around. On January 25, the ... http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203299662/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 03:20:35 -0500 Asia Times http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203299662/ By Peter Morici Democrats rejoiced that unemployment fell to 8.3% and 247,000 new jobs were added in January, confirming to them that President Barack Obama will take them to victory in ... http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203299663/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 03:20:34 -0500 Asia Times http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203299663/ 1912 Belfast Braced for Riots The city is likened today [Feb. 6] to a warehouse full of nitro-glycerine by its Lord Mayor (Mr. Robert J. McMordie), and to a ship laden with guncotton by Colonel Ro http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203296410/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 03:18:01 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203296410/ Amherst, Mass. http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203296826/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 03:17:14 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203296826/ Beirut http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203296761/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 03:10:06 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203296761/ To the Editor: http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203298959/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 01:23:08 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203298959/ If Americans are barred from suing the government for misconduct in a war zone, there would be no way to hold officials accountable for even gross violations of constitutional rights in those ... http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203299651/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 01:23:05 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203299651/ To the Editor: Re "The Media's Abortion Blinders" (column, Feb. 5): http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203296973/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 01:23:05 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203296973/ To the Editor: Re "Russia and China Block U. N. Action on Crisis in Syria" (front page, Feb. 5): http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203296759/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 01:23:05 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203296759/ On Monday, Stephen Harper, the prime minister of Canada, traveled to China for a week of high-level meetings.  He brought with him a handful of his cabinet ministers, including Joe Oliver, ... http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203299653/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 01:19:06 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203299653/ The opinions, often expressed in tweets, came fast and furious after Twitter revealed its revised censorship policy late last month. Social-media users, who had just pushed back against ... http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203291921/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 01:00:29 -0500 Star Tribune http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203291921/ As we enter the 2012 election season, should American Muslims be bracing for another round of Islamophobia? Certainly the 2010 elections were rife with attacks on American Muslims, seeking to deny ... http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203291922/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 01:00:25 -0500 Star Tribune http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203291922/ In the most recent Gallup poll on abortion, as many Americans described themselves as prolife as called themselves pro-choice. A combined 58 percent of Americans stated that abortion should either ... http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203291923/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 01:00:19 -0500 Star Tribune http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203291923/ Citizens United decision , and it doesn't work. Oh, yes, it works nicely for the wealthiest and most powerful people in the country, especially if they want to shroud their efforts to influence ... http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203291924/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 01:00:07 -0500 Star Tribune http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203291924/ From the archive Profound changes to the global economy contributed to today's crisis and make it harder to resolve. Bergsten — director of the influential Peterson Institute for ... http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203291930/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:34:49 -0500 Deseret News http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203291930/ Police in Butler County said a bank robbery suspect surrendered today after officers from multiple agencies tracked his getaway car. Matthew Chestnut, 35, was awaiting arraignment tonight on ... http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203295521/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:33:50 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203295521/ A convicted sex offender from Wilkinsburg has been arrested on charges that he indecently assaulted a 10-year-old boy following a Christmas Eve party in White Oak. White Oak police chief Joe ... http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203295520/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:33:49 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203295520/ Contributed by : Carol Gould Gaddafy is dead. There are calls for the Lockerbie bomber, Abdelbasst ali al Megrahi to be returned to jail in Scotland (the irony is that he might be safer in ... http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203291916/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:33:33 -0500 Jewish Comment http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203291916/ line is quite another.The cookie sale is the Girl Scouts’ largest fundraiser, bringing in close to a billion dollars annually. This year, some girls will come equipped with credit-card ... http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203291134/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:51:59 -0500 Washington Times http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203291134/ Mr. Obama claims, in fact, that the issue of fairness is the ';defining issue of our time.'; The president gives us a stark, if fallacious, choice:';No challenge is more urgent. No ... http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203291135/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:51:44 -0500 Washington Times http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203291135/ Obama administration - everything from government officials taking simple bribes, to covering up wrongdoing, to using taxpayer money to pay off political supporters, to using government prosecutors ... http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203291138/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:51:38 -0500 Washington Times http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203291138/ Imagine a job where you earn an above-average salary, enjoy plenty of paid leave, have enviable health benefits and get to retire at age 56 with a generous pension. Sound good?For far too many ... http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203291137/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:51:32 -0500 Washington Times http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203291137/ Washington hasn’t seriously uttered the words ';balanced budget'; in years. Lawmakers now focus on trimming the budget deficit, which has soared to $1.3 trillion under ... http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203291141/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:51:29 -0500 Washington Times http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203291141/ Mr. Gingrich admittedly have a lot in common, but when two notoriously self-promoting politicians like these start blowing their own horns to the same tune, it’s worth taking a closer look - ... http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203291139/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:51:25 -0500 Washington Times http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203291139/ Here's one thing both might agree on: More candidates should follow Ronald Reagan and have Madison Avenue -- not the Beltway -- create their campaign ... http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203287207/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:44:41 -0500 Star Tribune http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203287207/ Yet no one has figured how to fix the mess. The Obama administration and several states have been working on a multibillion dollar settlement with banks that abused the foreclosure process; the deal ... http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203291929/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:56:44 -0500 USA Today http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203291929/ Russia and China stopped the international effort dead in its tracks, at least for the time being. This was a dismayingly reactionary decision by the two powers, lamented not just by predictable ... http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203287502/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:38:44 -0500 The Guardian http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203287502/ Although the president still hasn't presented details of his latest plan, judging by his speech last week it's going to be more of the same. He means well, but his new plan will do nothing to help ... http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203287211/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:24:12 -0500 USA Today http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203287211/ Supporters of public transit fanned out across Pittsburgh's Golden Triangle today to seek support from riders for increased state aid. About two dozen teams hoped to distribute at least 8,000 ... http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203291131/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:08:11 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203291131/ Sarris Candies' landmark retail store in Canonsburg will remain closed for about a month after last week's fire, but candy orders and deliveries to outside sellers continue uninterrupted. ... http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203291132/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:08:08 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203291132/ The Women's Board of Pittsburgh was reeling in support for Angels Place during "Angling for Angels" Friday at the Fox Chapel Golf Club. The luncheon for 250 guests featured an ... http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203291133/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:08:08 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203291133/ Doing away with tenure for public school teachers, combined with low pay and increased surveillance of performance, would add to the exodus of the best teachers from the profession. And those ... http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203287212/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:15:17 -0500 USA Today http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203287212/ When my local United Way obtained a dot-com domain, I advised it to use the more appropriate dot-org suffix instead but to keep the dot-com to prevent someone from using it to scam people. With the ... http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203287208/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:08:04 -0500 USA Today http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203287208/ The irony is that few worldviews better describe the general liberal orientation to public policy and the culture war. The left often complains about the culture war as if it's a war they don't want ... http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203287209/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:58:50 -0500 USA Today http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203287209/ DeWayne Wickham USATODAY columnist The unemployment rate in January dropped to 8.3%, the fifth consecutive month that it has declined and the lowest it has been in three years. Last month, 243,000 ... http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203287210/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:05:52 -0500 USA Today http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203287210/ In the mid-1990s, there was a mini-wave of "granny dumping." Elderly people, abandoned by families, showed up at hospitals and Salvation Army facilities, often with a note to the effect: ... http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203281855/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:49:51 -0500 Star Tribune http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203281855/ article about the suicides of nine LGBT teens in the Anoka-Hennepin School District and the school "neutrality" policy that served them poorly. The stretch is the story’s attempt to ... http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203281854/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:49:45 -0500 Star Tribune http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203281854/ February 6, 2012 The Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation reversed its controversial decision to stop providing funding to Planned Parenthood. Rodger Jones, an editorial writer for ... http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203281856/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:42:44 -0500 NPR http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203281856/ If everything in life is predestined, where is the scope to use our intelligence? Whoever told you that everything is destined? Nothing is destined. It is just that unconsciously you have made ... http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203286194/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:11:30 -0500 Times of India http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203286194/ Las Vegas . As a child, i could not figure out the fuss about the word 'poverty' and 'inflation' was a word i naively related only to balloons. I wondered aloud why the ... http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203286195/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:11:23 -0500 Times of India http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203286195/ Bollywood largely evoke yawns. Let's face it - cinema is overwhelmingly a medium based on youth and novelty. It's all about that first magical discovery of love, those delightful surprises ... http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203286196/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:11:11 -0500 Times of India http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203286196/ USA Today has come to the defense of the US Catholic Church with an editorial criticizing the Obama administration's mandate for contraceptive coverage in health-care programs. While expressing ... http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203281868/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:36:24 -0500 Catholic Culture http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203281868/ (The New Republic) In the current presidential election campaign, many, if not most, Americans are expecting that Mitt Romney's quest for the White House will be buffeted by questions about his ... http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203286203/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:33:59 -0500 CBS News http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203286203/ Jurors have found Democratic state Rep. Bill DeWeese, the onetime House speaker from Waynesburg, guilty on five of six felony counts in a case in which he was accused of directing his legislative ... http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203286197/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:11:06 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203286197/ Downtown-based Education Management Corp. has filed a muscularly written defense of the recruiter compensation practices for which it has been sued by the federal government and several states, in ... http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203286198/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:11:05 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203286198/ The Pennsylvania Supreme Court's incomplete pronouncement on reconfiguring state House and Senate districts is a victory for many legislative incumbents, but it is a loss for citizens and for ... http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203286202/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:11:03 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203286202/ The Arab Spring continues to flower in Egypt, presenting some serious problems, but also pushing the country toward a democratic stability in government that can move it forward. Progress occurred ... http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203286201/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:11:02 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203286201/ Millions of years before humans were around to notice, something big collided with Mars. The impact kicked millions of tons of the planet's surface into space, where much of it still circles ... http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203286200/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:11:01 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203286200/ Britain's Queen Elizabeth II attends the church of St Peter and St Paul at West Newton, eastern England, Sunday Feb. 5, 2012. The queen braved the cold and snow to attend church Sunday on the ... http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203276670/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:01:11 -0500 Star Tribune http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203276670/ If we thought together, what would we want for a world civilization? Right now it seems we are being driven into a world civilization pell mell by the vast engine of late-capitalist successes. This ... http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203276673/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:54:43 -0500 NPR http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203276673/ Madonna performs during the Super Bowl XLVI Halftime Show. Madonna is just about the only thing I remember about the Super Bowl last night, and interestingly, it made me think about the fact ... http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203276671/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:54:36 -0500 NPR http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203276671/ Ken Rudin collection A true swing state: Nevada voted GOP for president six times in a row between 1968 and 1988. But Clinton won it twice and Obama carried it last time. Romney took 50 percent ... http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203276676/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:54:33 -0500 NPR http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203276676/ February 6, 2012 The Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation is facing a fight to keep controversy from undermining its fundraising efforts. After announcing that it would withdraw funding from ... http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203276675/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:54:29 -0500 NPR http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203276675/ Plan B is available over the counter for people 17 and older. Access to emergency contraception has swirled at the center of a recent flurry of debate over insurance coverage. It's a pill ... http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203276674/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:54:26 -0500 NPR http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203276674/ Ideas from the Treasury have long been out of fashion with the political class. Since the days of Rogernomics, Ruth Richardson and Bill Birch, Labour and National-led governments have been keen to ... http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203276158/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:29:00 -0500 New Zealand Herald http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203276158/ On today's edition of "Smart Women, Stupid Choices": Katherine Heigl! She left a halfway decent medical soap opera for a string of increasingly mediocre, decreasingly romantic ... http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203280806/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:26:47 -0500 Post-Gazette http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203280806/ NEW YORK - Anyone channel surfing Sunday in search of one of the endless pregame shows dedicated to the Super Bowl might have stumbled on a weird item billed by Fox TV as the "Greatest live Premier ... http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203280805/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:21:02 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203280805/ People march to take part in a anti-Putin rally in central Moscow, on Feb. 4, 2012, to urge Putin to quit power ahead of March 4 polls in which Putin is planning to reclaim his old Kremlin job. Tens ... http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203271253/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 09:31:22 -0500 NPR http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203271253/ : An increase in 245,000 payroll jobs was about 100,000 above expectations (at 150,000). But exactly a year ago, the experts were calling for a January 2011 increase of about 140,000 jobs and the ... http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203271256/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 09:31:16 -0500 NPR http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203271256/ The O'Jays perform at the Rally To Restore Sanity And/Or Fear on the National Mall on Oct. 30, 2010 in Washington, DC. Although the O'Jays are not a "wonk rock" band, D.C. has ... http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203271254/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 09:31:13 -0500 NPR http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203271254/ The appointment was today announced by Tony Howard, CEO of Independent News & Media South Africa, who said Sefara's appointment was part of significant editorial changes in the group which ... http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203275578/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 09:24:49 -0500 IOL http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203275578/ http://news.nationalpost.com/2011/07/20/cnn%E2%80%99s-piers-morgan-clashes-with-u-k-mp-over-phone-hacking-scandal/ .Watch this space**************************London24 February 2011 I know he has ... http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203271052/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:22:16 -0500 Jewish Comment http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203271052/ Contributed by : Carol Gould (First published February 20, 2011)LondonWhen I was a very little girl my mother used to say to my sister and me that ... http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203271054/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:22:10 -0500 Jewish Comment http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203271054/ Contributed by : Carol Gould London'What does David Cameron have to offer but divisive and crude rhetoric? How dare he call this remarkable nation broken and sick? Millions of citizens ... http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203271053/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:22:09 -0500 Jewish Comment http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203271053/ Contributed by : Carol Gould The article below was published in December 2010. As the USA gets closer to default I reject claims by conservative commentators that the present crisis arises from ... http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203271056/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:22:08 -0500 Jewish Comment http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203271056/ http://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/51658/freedland-gloom-israel-boycott-applauded .**************************************Carol Gould writes on 14 July:I thought I would let the readers know how it ... http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203271057/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:22:06 -0500 Jewish Comment http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203271057/ Contributed by : Carol Gould LondonIn my previous article I recounted the bizarre experiences I had in Eastbourne on my first UK holiday in five years. I would like now to turn to even more ... http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203271058/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:22:05 -0500 Jewish Comment http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203271058/ Contributed by : Carol Gould 'The excellent Fishy Business restaurant offers superb home cooking with an emphasis on freshly caught fish and seafood'(from The Pier Hotel's ... http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203271055/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:22:04 -0500 Jewish Comment http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203271055/ Contributed by : Carol Gould LondonI live in parallel universes. There is the universe of my sister and of my American friends and huge family spread across the United States who provide me ... http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203271064/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:21:58 -0500 Jewish Comment http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203271064/ Contributed by : Carol Gould The Westminster Media Forum Policy Seminar: Ethnicity and the Media: January 31, 2007Report and Comment by Carol ... http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203271065/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:21:54 -0500 Jewish Comment http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203271065/ Contributed by : Carol Gould As we freeze, global warming conferences continue to proliferateLondonThose of us who stay up late to watch the cycle of American news programmes on British ... http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203271066/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:21:50 -0500 Jewish Comment http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203271066/ Contributed by : Carol Gould LondonI am ashamed I ever called myself a 'conservative' commentator. When is the Tory government going to stop obsessing on benefit claimants and start ... http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203271068/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:21:47 -0500 Jewish Comment http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203271068/ Contributed by : Carol Gould London Whether or not the effects of the BP explosion and subsequent environmental disaster were overblown (the British media are saying it was) it is to me of ... http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203271069/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:21:44 -0500 Jewish Comment http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203271069/ http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/was-shimon-peres-right-about-britain-having-a-problem-with-jews/ .LondonI have spent a few weeks thinking a lot about an encounter I had on Friday evening, 16th July at ... http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203271070/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:21:43 -0500 Jewish Comment http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203271070/ Contributed by : Carol Gould In October 2008 the BBC became embroiled in a controversy over the live broadcast of lewd phonecalls made by Russell Brand ( he who so enraged American audiences ... http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203271071/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:21:41 -0500 Jewish Comment http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203271071/ Contributed by : Carol Gould In the wake of risng anti-Americanism because of the BP crisis and the desire of American senators to interview Scottish officials about the release of Lockerbie ... http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203271059/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:21:40 -0500 Jewish Comment http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203271059/ http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/do-we-need-a-war-on-terror/ .*************************************Do we need a war on terror? - by Carol Gould - London, March 17, 2010Address to ... http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203271063/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:21:38 -0500 Jewish Comment http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203271063/ http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/in-an-england-suburb-teaching-the-kids-jihad-and-jew-hatred/ .LondonRecently I spoke at a British school conference on world terrorism. The venue was a school in the ... http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203271062/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:21:33 -0500 Jewish Comment http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203271062/ Contributed by : Carol Gould Image: Chef Gary Rhodes and a member of the public*******************My enduring memory of ... http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203271061/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:21:32 -0500 Jewish Comment http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203271061/ http://www.pajamasmedia.com .London May 31, 2010Not a week goes by in Great Britain that there ... http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203271060/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:21:28 -0500 Jewish Comment http://story.iranherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/45d771c7290844e9/id/203271060/