North Carolina Gov. Bev Perdue spoke for many politicians on Tuesday when she suggested suspending congressional elections for two years to give the politicians a free hand without voter input. You want people who don't worry about the next election," Mrs. Perdue, a Democrat elected in 2008, said to a Rotary Club gathering. Although a tape of the speech reveals that she made the statement in a serious manner, she later insisted she had been joking.
A hundred dollars a ticket and a school night? It was my daughter's favorite singer, Taylor Swift, coming to town. My initial reaction was just forget about it; it will not happen. On top of it all, she had a French final exam the next morning. Then something happened. Her reaction was disappointed but she didn't beg or even second-guess my reasoning. Her maturity and ability to reason stunned me, especially seeing as though we were talking about Taylor Swift.
Seven of the 10 living former CIA chiefs Friday urged President Obama to overrule his attorney general and not reopen investigations into CIA employees who may have abused detainees during the George W. Bush administration. The former directors warned that further investigations would demoralize current CIA officers and might also lead allied intelligence services to suspend or scale back cooperation with the United States because the judicial probes could disclose joint operations and activities.
Federal regulators this week backed off any separate enforcement action at a huge Raleigh County coal slurry impoundment, but disputed West Virginia's conclusion that the facility used "the most conservative design" and that concerns about the site are unfounded. The U.S. Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement concluded that state officials had acted properly in policing the Brushy Fork impoundment, in part because the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection has promised more stability testing at the site just upstream from Whitesville.
President Obama has finally acknowledged what most Americans already know: Big government carries a price. That's the take-away from the not-so-coincidental White House decision Friday to delay imposing yet more "environmental" red tape on business. That same day, the Labor Department announced there was no net growth in jobs for the first time since World War II. If the president's new-found cost-consciousness were genuine, he would go a step further in his address to Congress Thursday and urge lawmakers to amend the Clean Air Act to relieve the burden on job creators - but don't hold your breath waiting for that to happen.
The United States Supreme Court should grant review of South Dakota's prohibition of abortion except to save the mother's life. It should then overrule in part and affirm in part its landmark Roe v. Wade (1973) precedent. The court should declare Roe was wretchedly reasoned and wrongly decided. Its right to privacy rationale pivoting on penumbras, emanations, mysteries of the universe, and the meaning of existence should be renounced. But Roe's core holding of a constitutional right to an abortion during the first trimester of pregnancy should be left undisturbed.
General Sessions Court Clerk Otis Jackson has filed a petition in Chancery Court challenging the legality of his 60-day suspension issued this week by the judges of the courts he administers. Jackson, 50, was indicted last month on official misconduct charges that he coerced members of his staff into giving and collecting money for his 2012 campaign.
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