Editorials from newspapers across the country, as seen in the Traverse City Record-Eagle, northern Michigan's daily newspaper.
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Feeling pressure from the American public on the size of the U.S. deficit and runaway spending, the Obama administration has begun to formulate a deficit reduction plan.
It's been six years and counting since our invasion of Iraq. What has been accomplished? Certainly a brutal dictator has been overthrown and his regime silenced.
At this point, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her Senate counterparts are crafting their health care bills in ways to secure votes for passage rather than to produce good policy. But their attempts may backfire on both fronts.
The dimensions of the unfolding disaster in Afghanistan are becoming bigger and more daunting by the day. Once-staunch defenders of the "good war" are starting to break ranks.
Canada should lend Pakistan a helping hand as it struggles to stabilize its chaotic border region with Afghanistan, which is plagued by Taliban militants who threaten the entire region's stability.
Suddenly the quagmire known as Afghanistan is slightly less hopeless. For that, thank the perseverance of the rather unlikely diplomat Sen. John Kerry and the stubborn Afghan President Hamid Karzai's bow to reality " in that order, too.
Introduced in the United States two years ago, electronic cigarettes are no longer a novelty item but a popular option for many smokers " especially those who want to quit. Inhaling on the cigarette-shaped device activates a built-in battery, which heats up a mixture of water, nicotine and propylene glycol to give the "smoker" a vapor hit of the addictive substance found in cigarettes " but without the smoke.