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  • Published
    August 5, 2013

    VIEW FROM AWAY: Al Qaida in Iraq scores big with jailbreaks

    Jailbreaks are common in Iraq, but the brazen assaults on the prisons at Abu Ghraib and Taji recently are in a class by themselves. The attacks freed perhaps as many as 800 militants, who are now sought by Interpol as a “major threat” to global security.

  • Published
    August 5, 2013

    VIEW FROM AWAY: The truth hurts Venezuela’s new president

    Facing the Senate Foreign Relations Committee recently, Samantha Power, President Barack Obama’s nominee for ambassador to the United Nations, surely didn’t expect to stir up the proverbial hornet’s nest.

  • Published
    August 5, 2013

    OUR OPINION: Clean air rules help Mainers to breathe easier

    The height of the tourist season is an odd time to get into a big fight over relaxing Maine’s clean air standards, but the LePage administration has picked this time to exempt Maine industry from federal air-pollution standards.

  • Published
    August 5, 2013

    VIEW FROM AWAY: Outdated raisin law puts farmer in court

    Rogue raisin farmer Marvin Horne owes the U.S. government hundreds of dollars in unpaid fines and millions of pounds of raisins.

  • Published
    August 3, 2013

    VIEW FROM AWAY: Backing gun control bad for Colo. careers

    Colorado is the site of two of the most horrific gun massacres in recent history -- Columbine High School in 1999 and an Aurora movie theater last summer. It's also where two state senators face recall elections next month because they dared support a sensible package of gun-control measures that could make future massacres less likely.

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  • Published
    August 2, 2013

    VIEW FROM AWAY: Amicable split reasonable goal for Mideast

    Perhaps the most promising thing that can be said about anticipated Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations is that we don't know much about them.

  • Published
    August 1, 2013

    OUR OPINION: Manning’s judge draws line against overreaction

    A counterterrorism policy should be guided by thoughtful realism, not by fear. Too often, that's not the case.

  • Published
    July 31, 2013

    VIEW FROM AWAY: Suspend aid to Egypt now

    When Egyptian police opened fire on protesters in Cairo over the weekend, they ended not only scores of lives but also any chance of a peaceful resolution to Egypt's burgeoning civil war. They also further exposed the Obama administration's hypocritical policy of maintaining aid to the regime, despite U.S. law requiring a suspension.

  • Published
    July 30, 2013

    VIEW FROM AWAY: Too few rules govern too much data gathering

    The director of national intelligence announced on July 19 that a court had renewed one of the government's most controversial surveillance programs -- the collection of a vast database of so-called metadata from Americans' phone calls.

  • Published
    July 29, 2013

    Student loan billis a good start

    Students who borrow to pay for college got some good news last week when a bipartisan group of senators, including Maine independent Angus King, passed a bill that will cut the interest rate on student loans nearly in half.