11/22/2009

Otis W. Brawley: Despite the report, let’s stick with mammograms
WASHINGTON

Jean Lesieur: The French ask: What is a nation?
PARIS

Chris Powell: Popular Rell is leaving and Conn.’s still a mess
MANCHESTER, Conn.

11/21/2009

Timothy M. Rivinus: The facts are in on Major Hasan
President Merkin Muffley: “There’s nothing to figure out, General Turgidson. This man is obviously a psychotic.”

Scot Lehigh: Mike is mad as heck and he’s not going to take it anymore
BOSTON

Roy Little: ‘Public option’ already works well in insurance
WASHINGTON

Doug Bandow: A crisis in Honduras? That’s their problem
WASHINGTON

Scott Turner: Fall makes me think back to my father fishing for bluefish
Last week, on a day when the mid-November temperature approached 70 degrees, I stopped to observe upper Narragansett Bay, which looked as still as a bedspread.

11/20/2009

Dick Polman: Republicans’ staggering hypocrisy on mandate
PHILADELPHIA

Harold Meyerson: Greedy U.S. elites made China trade problem
WASHINGTON

Jeff Blanchard: Rich summer folk and their strange Wampanoag bedfellows
BREWSTER

11/19/2009

Michael F. Sabitoni: R.I. at critical juncture for green-energy jobs
This past legislative session, the Rhode Island General Assembly passed a landmark law establishing long-term contracting standards for renewable energy (“LTCSRE”), a bill aimed at encouraging renewable-energy projects, enhancing the state’s environmental quality and creating jobs.

Marianne M. Myles: Cape Verde: Inspiring African success story
PRAIA, Cape Verde

11/18/2009

Kathleen Sebelius: Patience, please: More H1N1 vaccine coming
WASHINGTON

Michael F. Cannon: PelosiCare should come with a warning label
WASHINGTON

John R. MacArthur: History promises disaster in Afghanistan for blind America
If President Obama has ever heard of William L. Shirer, chances are it’s in connection with Nazi Germany. Nowadays, you can’t make assumptions about what people under 50 know and don’t know, but it’s a safe bet Obama recalls Shirer’s most famous book, “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich,” even if he hasn’t read it.

11/16/2009

Steve Bucci: Financial protection, too
I have been watching the splendid National Parks series on PBS over the last few weeks. I found it remarkable that special interests cried foul when President Franklin Roosevelt declared the Grand Canyon a National Monument, thereby foiling the plans of developers for commercial buildings along the rim and mining operations in the canyon itself.

11/17/2009

Tricia K. Jedele: Running the landfill is the responsibility of government
In the Nov. 3 Journal article “State explores feasibility of selling or leasing Central Landfill,” Michael O’Connell, executive director of the Rhode Island Resource Recovery Corporation, was quoted as saying, “We’re just a landfill. Why is government so involved?”

Bogdan Kipling: On to Copenhagen! On second thought, forget it
WASHINGTON, D.C

Rick Brooks/Linda McDonald: Another wake-up call on wrong-site surgeries
The recent news of yet another wrong-site surgery at Rhode Island Hospital has left us further dismayed, but increasingly motivated to find real solutions to the seemingly intractable problem of medical errors.

Avi Shafran: Who is a Briton?
NEW YORK

11/16/2009

Jonathan Weil: God and man and getting even at Goldman Sachs
LONDON

Stanley M. Aronson: The physician who would be president
Physicians come in all sizes, competencies and degrees of humility. While most perform with dedication and commitment, some are outstanding by virtue of their notable gifts to the betterment of society. But a few rare ones are so flamboyant, so egregiously egocentric, that the medical profession shrinks from acknowledging that they are, or indeed ever were, one of their own.

Llewellyn King: Warren Buffett invests in stuff that can’t be moved to China
WASHINGTON

Normal E. “Sandy” McCulloch Jr.: Education and jobs: Where’s that pony?
A week in the deep woods of Canada never fails to give me plenty of time for reflection and perspective, as well as a few chances to miss ruffed grouse. Returning to Rhode Island, where people everywhere are hurting and the end is not yet in sight, where a buffet of critical issues has gradually grown over the years to frightening proportions, it is easy to get discouraged.

11/15/2009

Peter Morici: China’s currency, not the dollar, is too cheap
COLLEGE PARK, Md

Correction
In print and early Web versions, Joan Vennochi’s column Sunday should have been headlined "Capuano, Coakley and Washington’s wheeling, dealing ways.” Instead, the name "Moakley” was erroneously used in place of Coakley.

Peter Baker: A small fish’s woes threaten eco-system
WASHINGTON

Silvio Laccetti: Low interest: Strange times for banks, sad times for savers
HOBOKEN, N.J.

Joan Vennochi: Capuano, Coakley and Washington’s ways
BOSTON

Richard Lobban/Christopher Dalton: Guinea-Bissau: West Africa’s narco-state
Because of widespread poverty, underdevelopment, national debt, corruption, limited police and naval forces, and a weak state that barely follows the rule of law, Guinea-Bissau has been an attractive haven for various types of underground trafficking. Drugs, small arms, dumping of hazardous wastes, smuggling and sex trading have all been laid to gangs and corrupt officials. Especially worrisome is that poverty-stricken Guinea-Bissau is considered, by some, to be a “narco-state.”