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Tuesday, January 06, 2009
THE TRIBUNE'S VIEW
Union election
By HENRY J. WATERS III, Publisher, Columbia Daily Tribune
One of the first acts of the new Obama administration is likely to be a payoff to the unions. Congress seems ready to pass the so-called Employee Free Choice Act eliminating the current requirement for a secret ballot election among workers to establish union representation.
JOHN DARKOW CARTOON
ON ETHICS
Endorsing
own work
By RANDY COHEN
I am a registered nurse three days a week at a hospital and a bartender one day a week at a country club.
Mideast overshadows Obama’s prospects
By ROBERT SCHEER
So why didn’t they give peace a chance? Why did the leaders of Hamas and Israel not wait for the new U.S. president’s inauguration before mutually escalating hostilities? Here was a president-elect chosen, in part, on the expectation that he could enhance prospects for Mideast peace, even if it meant negotiating with people thought to be enemies.
Republican senators leave big shoes to fill
By DAVID S. BRODER
As the new session of Congress begins this week, a great many familiar faces will be missing. While the most notable absentees will be the new president- and vice president-elect, Barack Obama and Joe
Biden, something tells me we will see plenty of them in coming months.
World condemns Israel but stays silent on Hamas
By MONA CHAREN
Just for a lark, I decided to google "international condemnations of Hamas" last week. You can guess what came up, right? Naturally, searching for condemnations of
Hamas, one finds only international condemnations of Israel.
Social Security
biggest Ponzi scheme of all
By CHARLES MURRAY
For weeks, the United States and international media have been following the story of Bernard Madoff and his "giant Ponzi scheme," as The Wall Street Journal called it, which might have cheated unsuspecting investors out of tens of billions of dollars. The Securities and Exchange Commission termed it "a stunning fraud that appears to be of epic proportions."
Obama picks hint at gas price hikes
By BEN LIEBERMAN
How does $8-a-gallon gas sound? Few Americans would want to see that happen. Unfortunately, President-elect Barack Obama’s choices for the government’s two highest energy posts have expressed a surprising level of comfort with sky-high gas prices.
