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DAN K. THOMASSON Special tax should pay for Katrina recovery

Opinion: WASHINGTON -- Lyndon Johnson, pressed by the financial drain of war and ambitious domestic programs,


Plight of the impoverished

Opinion: The Providence Journal: The most desperate of the Gulf hurricane victims have tended to be the poor.


Prophesy of the Gaza has been fulfilled

Opinion: It took just 12 days from completion of Israel's withdrawal from Gaza before rockets started raining


Corruption as usual in Big Easy

Opinion: By ANNE APPLEBAUM WASHINGTON POST WASHINGTON -- Two hurricanes have now hit Louisiana, wreaking


Bush inappropriately uses Katrina to push vouchers

Opinion: By BARBARA MINER KNIGHT RIDDER TRIBUNE President Bush is misusing the Katrina disaster to push


Recovery of African loot should be global priority

Editorial: Billions of dollars have been stolen from African countries by corrupt leaders who correctly


Today is Thursday, Sept. 29, the 272nd day of 2005. There are 93 days left in the year. On this date in 1978, Pope John Paul I is found dead in his Vatican apartment just over a month after becoming

Opinion: Today is Thursday, Sept. 29, the 272nd day of 2005. There are 93 days left in the year. On this date


"This area's hurting."

Opinion: "This area's hurting." President Bush Before an hourlong helicopter tour over the debris-strewn


Hunger in U.S. an everyday occurrence

Opinion: By CAROL TOWARNICKY KNIGHT RIDDER NEWSPAPERS In the week that Hurricane Katrina engulfed the


What is a 'general' right to privacy?

Opinion: WASHINGTON -- Dianne Feinstein's thoughts on the nomination of John Roberts as chief justice of the


Who is looking out for we the people? Not politicians

Opinion: Who is looking out for we the people? Not politicians EDITOR: "We the people of the United


Keep on checkin'

Opinion: The Martins Ferry Times-Leader: The American Civil Liberties Union is, apparently, made up of an


Abu Ghraib prosecutions end low on chain of command

Editorial: The Abu Ghraib prison scandal was an international black eye for the United States. Brig. Gen. Mark


HOW THEY SEE IT Water: A fundamental global health issue

Opinion: By JAN ELIASSON and SUSAN BLUMENTHAL WASHINGTON POST In the United States and Europe, people


HOW HE SEES IT Price-gouging charges ignore market realities

Opinion: By BERNARD L. WEINSTEIN KNIGHT RIDDER NEWSPAPERS Though gasoline prices have retreated from